Visit Cambodia

Visit 6 provinces around Tonle Sap:

Thousand attractive sites

Million wonderful cultures

And billion smiles

Enjoy your trip in Cambodia

Royal University of Phnom Penh

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

Department of Tourism

Research about: Tourism Geography around Tonle Sap Lake

Lecturer: THOUCH Soputhy

Member of Group:

CHEY Theb SAY Lalin

BOU Sivteang BEN Chetra

Year 2, semester I

Academic year: 2010-2011

You will satisfy strongly all of your want, just visit Cambodia. Cambodia used to be a famous empire in the ancient time, called “Khmer Empire”, ancient time provide unlimited cost of cultural resources such as Absara dance performance, or Ankor temple and many

other thousand temples.

We’re very pride, not just the cultural resources; Cambodia is the most full or in the other word, rich of natural resources.

Our property can provide you the good experience with the nation or local tradition, views of beautiful landscape, thousand of temples, and funning of transport vehicles or very welcome of our citizen and other service.

Best vacation, build closer relationship, networking, finding new, or education, Cambodia can provide you better and better.

When I was 17 years old, my father had one night trip to forest, unforgotten memory, I was so optimistic, very strange, and very enjoyable with the nature. How about you?

Do you want to relax for building other your needs very well? Cambodia can provide you all of your needs and the unforgotten memory with your special.

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www.traveljournals.net/pictures/86310.html

www.tourismcambodia.com/travelguides/provinces/banteay-meanchey/

www.tourismcambodia.com/travelguides/provinces/siem-reap

www.tourismcambodia.com/travelguides/provinces/pursat

www.tourismcambodia.com/travelguides/provinces/battambang

www.tourismcambodia.com/travelguides/provinces/kompongchnnang

www.tourismcambodia.com/travelguides/provinces/kompongthom

Norton university college of Social Sciences: (geography of tourism around Cambodia): lecturer: HIN Socheat

Tonle Sap is the largest freshwater lake in South East Asia and is an ecological hot spot that was designed as a UNESCO biosphere in 1997.

The area is home to many ethnic Vietnamese and numerous Cham communities living in floating village around the lake.

Tonle Sap Lake has 6 provinces around it. These provinces have a lot of attractive sites, rich of culture, food that can satisfy you, all of you want to see, stay, or eat. However, the livelyhood in Tonle Sap are very importand to the benefit of culture and resource so we can enjoy like eco-tourism that is a good experience and real practise.

. NASA satellite image

. Coordinates 12053N 104004E

. Basin countries Cambodia

. Surface area 2,700 km2 (normal)

16,000 km2

(monsoon)

Siem Reap provinces:

It locates in northwestern Cambodia. With

many temples are in it. In the city, there are traditional, Apsara dance performances, craft shops, silk farms, rice paddy countryside, fishing village and a bird sanctuary near the Tonle sap lake, temples, and mountains that being a popular tourist destination, has a large number of hotel and restaurants for all class. You can go to Siem Reap by air(international air port) especially by land that you can enjoy with many major attraction sites along of the place you pass such as beautiful landscap along the road, Phom Penh, paddy field, paml trees, and if you come by sea rout, you can enjoy with our uniqe coastle beach, or if you go along the river from Vietnam, also enjoy with boast trip.

Now, let’s go, make a trip to Siem Reap:

The first awareness in Siem Reap can be Ankor Wat. The temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia is widely considered one of the wonders of the world and it is a world heritage locates 7 km from province town. It built at the beginning of 12th century by king SORAYAK Varman 2 (1113-1152).

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Million senses are in it.

Bakong temple is the most impressive member of the roluos group, sitting at the center of the first Angkorian capital (15 meters tall and 650x850 outer wall). The temple

displays a very use of stone rather than brick. Some of the lintel carvings, particularly on the outer towers, are in very good shape. Pictureswwque moat and vegetation around Bakong.

Baksei Cham krong temple- a towering 12-meter tall brick and literate step-pyramid. Built by Harshavarman I in the early 10th century. Visit to the south gate and fly your feel especially on the lighting is best in the morning.

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Banteang Kdei temple is a mysterious temple. There is no record of why it was built-or by whom-because no marker stone with that information has ever been found. Its name

means ‘The citadel of the monks’ cells’, but that does not necessarily indicate its function. What is known is that Banteang Kdei grew by amalgamation from a small site to alarge central temple with its own enclwure wall that protected a large city.

Banteay Samre locate at Preah Dak commune, Bon Tiey Srey District by Charles De Gaulle Road via Angkor Wat in 16-kilometer destance from the provincial town.

You can find out of its signicifient by yourself.

Banteay Srei is built largely of hard red sandstone that can be carved like wood. The temple is known for the beauty of its sandstone lintels and pediments. These factors have made

the temple extremely popular with tourists. The temple locate 25 km north-east of the main group of temples and it is 10th century temple.

Baphuon temple was the largest temple of its time and only Angkor Wat would surpass it in the following century. It built in the 11th century

(part a city plan of Ankor). It

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BengMealea was built in middle of the 12th century, with later addition in the reign of the SuryavarmanII with the style of Angkor Wat.