Phnom Kulen Tour/Water Fall Tour
Overview
In this tour you will visit:
- Reclining Big Buddha
- 1000 Shiva Lingas
- Waterfall
- Poeng Ta Khu Cliff
In the morning you will be picked up from your hotel with a private car, the tour guide and driver will take you to the sacred mountain with the holy waterfall of Kulen mountain.
The journey will take you around 2 hours drive from town which is about 67 km from the city center. The drive goes through the national road and country road, crossing the village and rice paddy for you to get the great view along the way before reaching the top of the mountain.
Range approximately 40 kilometers north east of Siem Reap, Phnom Kulen is widely regarded as the birthplace of the ancient Khmer Empire during the construction of the ancient temples, sandstones were brought from this sacred mountain to Angkor.
Kulen is considered by Khmers to be the most sacred mountain in Cambodia, when we reach the top, you visit the impressive Riverbed of 1000 Lingas and Yoni, divided into three ports for the Hindu trinity gods, and with a riverbed filled with thousands of unique, ancient carvings. Ascend to the summit of the hill to marvel at the Buddhist Pagoda and the large Reclining Buddha carving.
Continue to the waterfalls of Kulen, pausing at two beautiful spots for a swim there. And then we go on for the natural place to see the most beautiful landscape of the Cliff, it’s called Poeng Ta Khu or Poeng Chruonh.
At around 2pm, your guide brings you down and returns back to the hotel where the tour comes to an end.
- Transportation
- Guide
- Entrance fees
- Snacks/drinks