Day 1 Depart Los Angels for Kuala Lumpur
Depart Los Angels for Kuala Lumpur via Singapore Airlines.
Day 2 En Route
Day 3 Arrive Kuala Lumpur.
Meet your tour guide at the airport and transfer to Allson Genesis hotel for 4 nights.
Day 4 Kuala Lumpur half-day city tour.
After breakfast at hotel, meet your tour guide at Lobby and start your city tour.
From its humble beginnings as a tin-mining town, Kuala Lumpur has developed into an exciting blend of colonial and modern architectures. Today’s city provides an overview of Kuala Lumpur as it developed today from the city’s colonial roots along the river to mosques, palaces and modern buildings with high-rise structures like the Petronas Twin Towers and KL Tower along the wide boulevards. Stop at Independence Square, the moorish styled Federal Court Houses, Heritage Railway Station. National Monument, National Museum and the King`s palace. Photo stops at the Parliament House, National Mosque and the Twin Towers. The tour will also pass by Chinatown and Lake Gardens. After noon is leisure time. Enjoy the “Garden City Of Lights”, its shopping and dining possibilities.
Day 5 Kuala Lumpur
Free
Day 6 Kuala Lumpur
Free
Day 7 Kuala Lumpur / Phnom Penh
Transfers to the airport for your flight to Phnom Penh. Upon arrival, be transferred to Juliana Hotel for 2 nights.
Day 8 Phnom Penh city tour
After breakfast at hotel, you will start sightseeing in Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital. The city sits at the confluence of the Mekong, Bassac and Tonle Sap rivers. Considered the loveliest of the French-built cities of Indochina, it was founded as a small monastery in 1372 by a rich Khmer woman called Penh after she found four Buddha statues in a tree trunk on the banks of the Mekong. She set up the monastery on a nearby hill – or ‘phnom’ in Cambodian.
WAT PHNOM: a temple and location of the first pagoda on this site built in 1372 by Penh to house the four Buddha statues found on the banks of the Mekong. It is the only hill (27 meters) in the capital.
ROYAL PALACE AND SILVER PAGODA: the royal palace stands on the site of the former citadel, Bantey Kev (built in 1813). Visitors are not allowed in some portions of the grounds, as the palace is the official residence of King Norodom Sihamoni. The silver pagoda is often called the Pagoda of the Emerald Buddha or Wat Preah Kaeo after the statue housed there. The wooden temple was originally built by King Norodom in 1892 and inside, its floor is comprised of more than 5000 silver blocks which together weigh nearly 6 tons.
NATIONAL MUSEUM: designed by a French archeologist and painter, George Groslier, in Khmer style in 1920 to exhibit works previously scattered throughout the country. It contains a collection of Khmer art including the beautiful 6th century bronze statue of Vishnu.
TUOL SLENG MUSEUM (Museum of Genocide): formerly the Tuol Svay Prey High School, in 1975 it became the Khmer Rouge's main torture and interrogation center. It was known as Security Prison 21, or just S-21.
CENTRAL MARKET or RUSSIAN MARKET: Visit one of Phnom Penh's two great markets. The Central Market is located in a distinctive domed Art Deco building, and is filled with jewelry, fabrics and all types of souvenirs. The Russian Market is a sprawling labyrinth of stalls selling everything from CDs and DVDs to silks, crafts, jewelry and more. Both are fascinating places to browse.
Day 9 Phnom Penh / Los Angels
Transfer to the airport for your flight return home.
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