Angkor Wat, Preah Vihear and Sambor Prei Kuk - in a single trail

Cambodia will develop heritage tourism packages now that it has three World Heritage sites under its belt.

The three World Heritage Sites are Angkor Wat, listed in 1992, Preah Vihear (2008) and the Sambor Prei Kuk archaeological site in Kampong Thom province listed in July 2017.


The Sambor Prei Kuk archaeological site, a cluster of ancient brick temples scattered in the forest in Kampong Thom province.

“The word ‘Kampuchea’ started from the time when Sambor Prei Kuk emerged,” he added. “This historical site is very important for us to understand how Khmer collaborated with each other after a time of division.”

Built by Isanavarnam I, king of the Chenla Empire, the seventh-century ruins are an important piece of Cambodian history that predates the Angkorian period.

The temple – perhaps best known for its enigmatic carvings that appear to depict foreign visitors to the royal court – was inscribed on the World Heritage List during the 41st session of the World Heritage Committee held in Krakow, Poland, the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts announced in a statement yesterday.


Khmer Times quoted Tourism Minister Thong Khon saying the addition of Sambor Prei Kuk archaeological site as a UNESCO world heritage would prompt new tour programmes.

“About 50% of tourists to Cambodia visit cultural and historical tourism sites like Angkor Wat, so we believe there are opportunities to package the three sites.”

Cambodia National Tourism Alliance general secretary, Ho Vandy, noted that Cambodia’s travel agents association has 300 members and they will now be encouraged to promote the three sites.

Promoting a World Heritage trail for all three World Heritage sites remains a challenge. Angkor Wat attracts the most visitors, while just a few visit Preah Vihear, which is perched on top of a ridge adjacent to the border with Thailand and more difficult to reach.

To make a World Heritage trail work it would require considerable cooperation between Cambodia and Thailand to create a route with minimal back tracking. Ideally, visitors would start with a trip to Northeast Thailand known as Isan, starting from Buriram before travelling south to cross the border with Cambodia to visit Preah Vihear, continuing their tour to Angkor Wat, then to Kampong Thom.

Including Sambor Prei Kuk, latest World heritage site into a tour would require research by tour operators to work out suitable routes that could fit into a price bracket acceptable to travellers with minimum duplication of routes.

External view of Sambor Prei Kuk, a coverage of 25km

SRG Holidays Cambodia, is currently working closely with suppliers to create a suitable packages, time estimated for the whole journey and travel pattern which will includes agri-tour, cultural and archaeological aspects in a friendly manner. Currently SRG Holidays had been organising tour for selected market focus on introducing Cambodia as a destination, art and culture, food and drink, religion as well as the historical value in an exclusive way.

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"Our challenges is the provide an extensive coverage and as much details as possible, offering our products at a competitive price, things like Khmer Noodle (known as nom banh chok) is on our top list for food and drink, which is famous among local people but tourist unable to get a taste of it, therefore we take a step forward to open a small noodle house in 2015 just for this reason. We hope tourist that visit Cambodia will be able to remember not only Amok, there are much more we can offer as Khmer delicacy history is one of the oldest available in Asia for century that preserving its culinary art until present day."- Sam Chan, SR Group-Cambodia.

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