Cambodia, as tourist destination, has a lot to showcase to its foreign visitors. Along with the country's archaeological sites, its cultural heritage, known as Khmer culture, manifested in its arts and architecture are worth witnessing. This prompted me and my travel buddies (Mama, Manang Belen, Madame Glenda and Madame Emma) to include Cambodian Cultural Village in our itinerary during our trip to Siem Reap, Cambodia in April 2013.
Cambodian Cultural Village is a theme park and museum which gives visitors a glimpse of what Cambodia is. The entire park can be explored within half day and wandering around is like traveling around Cambodia.
It is located along Airport Road #6, Khum Svay Dang Kum, Krus Village, Siem Reap, Cambodia. It admits visitors at US$11.00 for each foreign individual while cheaper price for local visitor.
The Wax and History Museum
The Wax and History Museum is a two-room museum. The first one contains around 30 wax figures featuring significant personalities in Cambodia dating from early centuries up to the present. The second one, on the other hand, has dioramas and paintings reflecting how Angkor Wat temple was built by ancient Khmer and how Khmer were during the Angkor period.
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| by the entrance of Wax and History Museum |
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| Welcome Apsara |
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| Apsara Sampeach |
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| King Norodom Suramarith and Queen Sisowat Kossawak |
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| one of the dioramas in the History Museum |
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| my travel buddies posing with a huge painting on the Khmers during Angkor period |
The Miniatures
The Miniatures are collection of famous and historical landmarks in Cambodia. This attraction gathers all that structures found in the whole country in one place.
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| KOMPONG KDEY BRIDGE |
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| The ROYAL PALACE and SILVER PAGODA in Phnom Penh |
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| The PHASAR THMEY (new market) located in Phnom Penh |
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| The NATIONAL MUSEUM in Phnom Penh |
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| The INDEPENDENCE MONUMENT, located in Phom Penh |
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| The RECLINING BUDDHA near Bayon Temple in Siem Reap |
The Villages
This attraction tries to showcase the different ways of living in the different villages in Cambodia. There are 13 villages in the Cambodian Cultural Village, however, I only got a few photos to share.
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| Floating and Fishing Village |
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| on the other side - still at Fishing and Floating Village |
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| more of Floating and Fishing Village with Mama |
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Farmi Village
(parang Farmville lang) |
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| Phromg Village |
The Traditional Shows
It's showtime!! There are also performance - dance performance, in particular, held in the different villages showing the diversed cultural heritage of the Khmers. We, however, had not witnessed any of them kasi the shows started at 1:00pm during that time and the restaurant inside Cambodian Cultural Village was full, so we had to go out for lunch and we were already lazy to go back.
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| performance time slots |
Other photos
There are also a lot more corners to take snapshots inside the park.
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| gumamela flowers |
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| gothic tower of Bayon Temple |
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| me in between LOTO and NAGA |
Know more the park by visiting their official website at
http://www.cambodianculturalvillage.com
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