The plateau where Sen Monorom is located is about 3000 feet above sea level, making it a cool region for Cambodia. The climate plays a particularly important role and you'll need to consider it in your travel plans. The rainy season makes access to the town complicated because of landslides. As for winter, don't forget your fleece, because it gets cold at night!

Refreshing Sen Monorom, perched on its plateau...

Sil Island is called that because of the numerous silk weavers who perpetuate their skills. You can spend a day here , cycling around and discovering the real, authentic Cambodia.

Silk Island - a haven of peace in the middle of Phnom Penh

Follow the guide to discover the secrets of Angkor! The temples don't stop with Angkor Wat. If you take the time to travel just a little further you will encounter some real architectural jewels.

A tour of the hidden temples of Angkor

If you like nature, don't miss the Botum Sakor national park, situated in the Cardamom mountains in the south-west of Cambodia. It's a haven of peace that is still protected from deforestation, where you can admire the diverse flora and fauna of the country. 

The Botum Sakor park: a paradise to explore

Banteay Srei is a Cambodian temple located in the vast territory occupied by the temples of Angkor. It is also known as the "Citadel of Women", and the fineness and delicacy of its decoration is quite extraordinary.

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Feel a total sense of wonder standing before the temples of Angkor! The dark years of Cambodia are gone for good and the country is open to the world. Visitors are ever increasing and come to discover the majestic site of Angkor, the internationally renowned pearl of the tourist industry. The city of Angkor has known an extraordinary fate: forgotten for several centuries, rediscovered by the French in 1907 and once again forgotten. Visitors have been able to rediscover its secrets for the past twenty years. Built between the 9th and 14th Centuries, Angkor was one of the biggest towns in the world and is today, one of the most visited sites in the world! Although it’s difficult to be able to contemplate these sublime temples alone, like the explorers of the beginning of the 20th century, to discover them through Evaneos Travel, will guarantee you an adventure off the beaten tracks and a long way away from tourists. Enchantment is guaranteed! Cambodia also has other riches to offer curious visitors: as a member of Evaneos Travel, the things you will remember about your holiday, apart from the magnificent sites you have visited, will undoubtedly be the « kindness and availability of the Cambodians », that you will be lucky enough to encounter during your visit…

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Banteay Srei

A sacred mountain for the whole of the Khmer people, Phnom Kulen is the ideal place to spend an active day trekking with family or friends.

Phnum Kulén

Srah Dumrei

Stung Treng is the last major town before the Laos border (with Si Phan Don – or "4000 Islands" – lying just 50 kilometres away). It's simply a place at which to make a brief stopover and has nothing of any real interest to offer, except perhaps that it serves as a way to get to Ratanakiri.

Stung Treng

 Kbal Spean is part of Angkor's archaeological sites, and it's one of the most sacred places in Cambodian Buddhist history. 

Kbal Spean

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I had heard a lot about Kbal Spean, often by Cambodians, who consider this place to be Cambodia's most sacred. This mountain's most symbolic place is the river with thousands of lingams : in fact, the river bed has been carefully sculpted with hundreds of lingams, a phallic symbol and divine representation of the God Shiva.  I went there in August, during the rainy season: you can't see the various sculptures very well, but we could figure out the lingams quite well, and it's really a nice and unique stop. In the dry season, there is almost no water, so people can easily admire the sculptures. You can also wash your hands and drink the water from this river to have good luck throughout life, according to the Cambodians anyway!  I really liked the place that is hidden in the forest, which you can reach after walking in the jungle, and which adds a fantastic and mythical aspect. The visit here is not incredible, but it is a stop that I recommend seeing if you go to Phnom Kulen for a trek or to swim in the waterfall. It's a good idea for a nature trip, to get away from the city noise of Siem Reap!

Kbal Spean is part of Angkor's archaeological sites, and it's one of the most sacred places in Cambodian Buddhist history.

Though this wasn't my first trip to Siem Reap and the Angkor temple, it was my first time visiting Kbal Spean. The site does have the inconvenience of being a little out of the way, so I ended up setting off very early in the morning to avoid the crowds. Even with a stop on the way to watch the quite wonderful sunrise, my friends and I were still the first there when we arrived at the car park! This gave us a slight sense of being adventurers as we made our way up to the site itself. We had forest all around us; the going along the path wasn't particularly difficult, and the climb didn't prove too steep. After walking for around 30 minutes we finally arrived. My eyes were filled with admiration as I imagined the men who originally came all the way here to carve these sculptures. The site isn't very well signposted and we therefore didn't actually realise we'd reached the summit at first. After a certain amount of confusion, we finally got to see the rest of the site and the waterfall, and we were still all alone at this point, which was a real delight; even if I did find myself a little disappointed by Kbal Spean's size: it only extends over a few hundred metres, though I do still recommend seeing it all the same. It's quite a unique and unusual place to visit, and somewhere you really have to see if at all possible when <a href="/cambodia/">in Cambodia</a>.

Kbal Spean is a site located on a sacred river in the Kulen hills where unique sculptures have been carved into the riverbed and the surrounding rocks.

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