Originally Posted by
Chancensam
Very timely, as I'm beginning my plans for Siem Reap and plan to stay at Amansara. Your details are very helpful.
Your opinion please - they offer a Spiritual Angkor Journey which includes the usual temple guides, Khmer breakfast and water-blessing - but also the following:
- Evening talk : Understanding Buddhism
- Two excursions to Angkor temples with English speaking guide (supplement for temple pass applicable)
- Traditional Khmer Breakfast at Amansara’s Wooden Village House at Angkor Archaeological Park
- Khmer bath therapy (Sras)
- Hot herbal compress massage (Sor om Massa)
- Forest bathing experience
- Monk led forest walking meditation ( Monk lead offering charity)
- Monk chanting in local Pagoda
- Ancestral Khmer incense class
Do you believe this to be too much for a 5 night stay?
We never took advantage of the afternoon temple visits while we were there. Instead we added on cooking class, Tonle Sap, a monk blessing, massage etc. for the variation. We found that brilliant, so I would definitely want to go for the journey you mentioned. Going on two temple visits PLUS the mentioned programme every day, would be too much for us, but I am sure that they have a good idea of how to fit in everything, maybe including combining some of the activities and temple visits or shorter temple visits etc.