TAKE THE AFTERNOON TO HIKE UP AND INDULGE IN THE BREATHTAKING VIEWS OF NEVER ENDING RICE FIELDS AT THE TOP OF PHNOM SAMPOV MOUNTAIN. ONCE YOU ARE UP THERE, TAKE YOUR TIME TO PONDER EVERY DETAIL OF THE SKY SCRATCHING PAGODA AND THE CLOSE PROXIMITY OF THE REMAINTS OF THE "KILLING CAVES" TO THE DARK HISTORY OF THE KHMER ROUGE PERIOD. FINALLY, AT SUNSET, BECOME WITNESS OF AN EXTRAODINARY SHOW OF NATURE, WHEN OVER TWO MILLION BATS FLY OUT OF THE CAVE IN SPIRALS OF PERFECT HARMONY.

 MUCH SMALLER THAN ANGKOR WAT, BUT EQUALLY AS IMPRESSIVE IN ITS GRANDEUR, STANDS THE FIVE-TOWER TEMPLE THE TOP OF A LONG TREAIL OF STAIRS WEAVING THROUGH CAMBODIA'S LUSH-GREEN VEGETATION. STROLL THROUGH THE TEMPLE AND THEN ENJOY THE AFTERNOON RESTING AND PLAYING IN THE LAKE-SIDE, PICNIC SITE, TASTING LOCAL KHMER DISHES AND PADDLING ON LOCAL WOODEN CANOES.

IN THE MOST MODERN TEMPLES STANDS WAT EK PHNOM, IN RUINS BUT STILL BUBBLING WITH HISTORY AND RICH TRADITION. ROAM THE LOCAL STREETS AND MARKETS OF BATTAMBANG BY BIKE AND THEN TAKE TIME TO DISCOVER THE HIDDEN DETAILS OF THE TEMPLE.

BATTAMBANG'S EXTENSIVE LAKE, COVERED BY CAMBODIA'S ICONIC LILY PADS AND WOODEN PODIUMS WITH HAMOCKS, WELCOME YOU TO ENJOY AN ATERNOON RELISHING IN THE RICH CULTURE, AND NATURAL WONDERS BATTAMBANG HAS TO OFFER. KAMPING PUOY LAKE ALSO KNOWN AS THE KILLING DAM, WAS ONE OF THE MULTIPLE PROJECTS EXECUTED BY THE KHMER ROUGE, INTENDED TO RECREATE THE IRRIGATION NETWORKS IN THE COUNTRYSIDE AROUND BATTAMBANG. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DIED DUE TO MALNUTRITION AND DISEASES WHILST MANUALLY CONSTRUCTING THIS DAM. BE READY TO SUBMERGE YOURSELF IN YEAR OF HISTORY.

Battambang Bamboo train, mean Norry or Nori (French word for lorry) is an improvised railway vehicle from Cambodia.

Originally concieved as a logistical fix during the United Nations Transitional Authority of Cambodia period, the original bamboo train was a lorry system that operated on Cambodia's rarely used northen rail line.