Cambodia Tour 3 : Phnom Penh – Rabbit Island (Kep)- Sihanoukville-KohRussei-Phnom Penh

We will leave Phnom Penh after breakfast and drive to the south by public bus. This 5 hours trip will cross the Cambodian countryside, passing bucolic villages and scenic rice paddies. On the way, you can be pass through lush green rice fields. Our destination is the small city of Kep, famous for its seafood, especially fresh crab.Upon arrival, a thirty minutes boat cruise will take us on Rabbit Island (KohTunsay), a lovely little island that sits offshore from Kep. You will be able to enjoy a refreshing swim in the crystal sea before having a beach dinner of outstanding seafood. We will spend the night in wooden bungalows along the beach of this quiet place.Overnight on Rabbit Island.

We will spend a whole day on Rabbit island. You will be able to admire the sunrise on the sea. Enjoy a relaxing time on the beach, snorkel in clean waters around the rocks and admire a variety of beautiful fish. You can also walk along the beaches or inside the island through the beautiful forest hoping to see some giant bats, unless you are just dreaming of lying on a hammock with a good book.Overnight on Rabbit Island.

After breakfast sail back to Kep and then resume our journey on the road which runs along the sea to Sihanoukville. Sihanoukville town, also called KompongSom, sits in the center of a small peninsula that juts into the warm waters of the Gulf of Thailand. This is Cambodia’s leading beach resort. There are white-sand beaches around the headland, unspoilt islands off the coast and the popular Khal Chhay waterfall near town. Later enjoy the beaches or explore the city by own.

Today, we will organise a boat trip on the Gulf of Thailand. There are several nearby islands with good snorkelling waters and white sand beaches boat trip. The boat will stop close to islands with rocky reefs providing a rich marine life for snorkelling before to shore to Koh Russei island  and enjoy uninhabited sandy beaches.We will dine of fresh seafood BB and spend the night in the beach in KohRussei.

After our breakfast on the beach and enjoy some few hours on the island before taking the boat back to Sihanoukville. We will go for lunch at Starfish Bakery Café from the Starfish Project which assists disabled families and individuals to becoming independent through housing, community and water projects, and medical assistance. Starfish Project will also be able to provide for you a relaxing moment with their experienced blind masseurs, or give you the opportunity to keep in touch with your family and friends with their Internet Centre. Afterwards, we will take the public bus to Phnom Penh where we will arrive at the end of the afternoon. Tonight, we will dine in the garden of Le Rit’s restaurant (owned by the NGO Nyemo) which assists vulnerable women and helpless children in their reintegration into society and the workforce. Then we will enjoy a theatre performance at the SovannaPhum Theatre.Overnight in Phnom Penh at Bright Light guesthouse.

Please note that the SovannaPhum Theatre shows are usually on Friday and Saturday only. The itinerary is subject to change according to your starting day.

This morning, after breakfast, we will drive about 16 kilometers to the ChoengEk killing fields and the TuolSleng genocide Museum – a mass gravesite and a former high school converted to a detention and torture centre by the Khmers Rouges when they came to power in 1975. ChoeungEk also serves as a memorial to those killed under the Khmers Rouges rule.

For our farewell lunch, we will go to the VeiyoTonle restaurant. VeiyoTonle works as an orphanage and day center for disadvantaged children. They support these children to go to school and train them to perform traditional Khmer dancing, at times the children perform a dances in the restaurant. Travel in Cambodia.