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Arrive
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Day 1 Arrive Siem Reap
Arrive at Siem Reap International Airport where you will be met and transferred to your luxury hotel. Located in the cultural heart of Siem Reap and within easy reach of the famous temples of Angkor, Bensley Collection - Shinta Mani Siem Reap presents 39 spacious rooms each designed by Bill Bensley and inspired by Khmer design.
Overnight: Shinta Mani Angkor - Bensley Collection
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Day 2 Siem Reap & Temples of Angkor
Join your private guide and head to the East Gate to explore Ta Prohm. You may recognise this atmospheric ruin from its starring role in numerous films, its towers, corridors and walls embraced by the encircling jungle roots. You'll have a couple of hours to explore Ta Prohm, as well as the multi-faced towers of the Bayon, before a picnic breakfast. You'll collect bicycles to explore the temple complex further - the flat shaded trails through the jungle are perfect for exploring by bicycle.
You'll take lunch in a private Khmer house before an afternoon at leisure - either continuing to explore by bike or returning to your hotel to indulge in the Shinta Mani Spa, where treatments use traditional herbs to relax and restore the senses. This evening enjoy a performance at the remarkable Phare Circus, a social enterprise which provides education in performing arts to young adults.
Overnight: Shinta Mani Angkor - Bensley Collection
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Day 3 Siem Reap & Tonle Sap Lake
This morning visit Banteay Srei, the elegant pink sandstone temple built by a Brahman in the 10th Century. Continue to travel southeast out of Siem Reap to one of the largest and least-visited villages on the Tonle Sap Lake, Kompong Khleang. Cruise along the intricate system of canals and out into open water to see the striking high stilted houses. Explore a local pagoda and discover the community's traditional ways of life before returning to Siem Reap by road.
Overnight: Shinta Mani Angkor - Bensley Collection
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Day 4 To Cardamom Mountains
This morning take a short flight from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh. Then take a two and half hour drive into the foothills of the Cardamom Mountains to your luxury tented camp at Shinta Mani Wild. At the camp entrance, hop into a vintage jeep and be driven to the Eastern Tower for an arrival into camp like no other. After climbing the 102 steps of the Eastern Tower, you'll be strapped into a double-cabled 400m zipline and sore over the jungle canopy and river below. After catching your breath at the West Tower, take a final zipline over the Raging Big Sister Falls, arriving safely at the Landing Zone Bar where camp staff will be waiting with your favourite cocktail. After a camp orientation, you'll be shown to your tent by your Bensley Butler to relax and unwind before dinner this evening.
Overnight: Shinta Mani Wild
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Day 5 Patrolling with Wildlife Alliance Rangers
After an early breakfast, meet the Wildlife Alliance Rangers, together with an English-speaking guide, and join them on a patrol over a network of abandoned poaching and logging trails through the dense forest. Sightings are likely to include macaques, gibbons or hornbills before stopping at the ranger station to see confiscated snares, traps and improvised hunting rifles. Return to the camp for lunch before at afternoon at leisure. Perhaps head to the Khmer Tonics spa for a rejuvenating treatment or take some relief from the jungle heat at The Cistern, Shinta Mani Wild's riverside pool.
Before dinner this evening, join your fellow camp mates for Tailgate Sundowners. A pop-up cocktail bar will be set up on flat stones in the middle of the river, with divots in the rocks used for impromptu ice buckets and a campfire burning nearby.
Overnight: Shinta Mani Wild
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Day 6 At leisure in the Jungle
Today can be spent however you wish. With so much to choose from, it's time to step out of your comfort zone. Try your hand at Foraging with a wild forager guide taking you through the forest and while explaining and tasting unexpected ingredients which can then be used in a cooking class with the camp chef.
For those that are more adventurous, mountain bike through the surrounding jungle, with opportunities for all skill levels, or with 800 acres of jungle there are plenty of different hiking routes to explore. Discover the secret backwaters and connecting waterways of the upper Srey Ambel Estuary aboard Shinta Mani's custom-built expedition boat, dropping anchor wherever you please. Alternatively, head out on kayaks as the gentle current of the river guides you downstream with the chance of seeing some amazing birdlife such as bee-eaters, black-crested bulbuls and native kingfishers.
Overnight: Shinta Mani Wild
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Day 7 To Song Saa
Early risers can take part in some riverside yoga or a guided meditation before a final farewell breakfast. It will then be time to say goodbye to your time in camp as you are transferred by road to Sihanoukville Port before transferring by speedboat to Cambodia's only private island resort. Song Saa means 'sweetheart' in Khmer and here guests get exactly what they come for: a Crusoe-esque, heart-shaped hideaway perched in the middle of a 100-hectare marine reserve teeming with technicolour sea life, with its virgin rainforest home to vibrant wildlife. Linked by a sun-bleached footbridge, the intoxicatingly pristine twin-islands feature 27 ultra-luxurious oversized natural timber villas discreetly dotted throughout the jungle or perched on stilts over the sea.
Overnight: Song Saa Private Island
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Day 8 - 9 Song Saa at leisure
The days ahead are at leisure for you to enjoy all that Song Saa has to offer.
If you can tear yourself away from your private deck, refreshing swims in the main pool or snorkelling in the island's inviting waters may beckon. Indulge in a pampering spa treatment, or - if you feel like venturing further afield - set out by boat on an island visit to see the positive impact of the Song Saa Foundation on the local community.
Overnight: Song Saa Private Island
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Day 10 Depart
Check out of Six Senses and be driven back to Sihanoukville airport, or on to Phnom Penh International airport for your onward flight.
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Depart
