Top Siem Reap Art & Culture Classes

Whole communities thrive at the edges of Tonlé Sap, South-East Asia's largest freshwater lake. Expect to learn how Khmer people have begun to live in houses built on stilts and hear how the locals live and interact within this unique ecosystem during this half-day tour. Your professional guide is the key to understanding Kompong Phluk and reveals highlights of the floating villages that are difficult to access on your own.

Day tours to the Angkor Archeological Complex often rush through the two circuits on offer, which means that you don’t have the time to truly appreciate the history around you. Make the most of the sights on this private tour to the complex, spread out over two days. On the first day, enjoy the temples and ruins on the Small Circuit, including Ta Prohm and Ta Nei. Start the second day with sunrise views of Angkor Wat before exploring the temples on the Big Circuit.

Experience the magic of sunrise over Angkor Wat with this early riser tour. After watching the sunrise, set out to explore the Angkor Temples by bike, allowing you to escape the crowds and admire the scenery as you follow traffic-free trails around the ruins. Take in highlights including Bayon, Preah Khan, Ta Prohm, and Angkor Thom, and enjoy a tasty Cambodian-style breakfast and lunch by the temples.

Set sail for a scenic 4-hour cruise around Tonle Sap Lake from Siem Reap, including hotel transfers and lunch. Hop aboard a traditional longtail boat and drift through the floating village of Chong Khneas, stopping to admire the lotus fields and peek into a crocodile and fish farm along the way. Finally, arrive at the Tara floating restaurant, where you can tuck into a delicious meal, sip complimentary cocktails and relax in a hammock as you soak up the views.

Feast your senses on the enticing smells and explosive flavors of Cambodian cuisine on a evening tour of Siem Reap’s street food district. Climb aboard a motorized rickshaw and delve into the cultural melting pot of street food with an expert gastronomic guide. Pleasure you palate with local delicacies and sweet desserts, savoring the flavor of skewered meat, fried crickets and soft-boiled duck eggs. Numbers are limited to only 12 food-lovers per tour to ensure you enjoy an intimate experience on this small-group excursion.

After seeing the mighty Angkor Wat, take a day trip from Siem Reap to explore some of the region’s other magnificent temples. Visit the Hindu temple Pre Rup temple; admire the grand Banteay Srei temple, the ‘Citadel of Women’; and learn more about the ancient Khmer empire as you tour the Ta Som and East Mebon temples.

Discover the time-honored tradition of making Cambodian ceramics during a pottery workshop in Siem Reap — a perfect family activity. An expert artist demonstrates methods of molding pieces on a pottery wheel, then helps you shape your own bowl and create Khmer designs with the proper carving tools. Your masterpiece will be ready for pickup the next day, along with a potter's diploma, after firing in a kiln overnight. This 1.45-hour experience includes hotel transport by tuk-tuk.

Cruise Tonle Sap Lake to Kompong Phluk on a half-day tour from Siem Reap, and explore the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia. See communities that thrive at the edge of the water, pass floating schools and markets, and visit a local home to get a glimpse of daily life and culture. This half-day Kompong Phluk tour includes all activities, as well as pickup and drop-off at Siem Reap hotels, and both morning and afternoon departures are available.

Experience the magic of Tonle Sap Lake at twilight on this romantic 4-hour dinner cruise from Siem Reap, including hotel pick-up. First, enjoy a small boat cruise around the floating village, lotus fields and crocodile farms of Chong Khneas. Then, board the Taras floating restaurant for a delicious buffet dinner and enjoy unlimited cocktails as you watch the sunset over the lake.

Exploring the UNESCO-listed Angkor Temples is a must for visitors to Siem Reap and this small-group tour ensures a more personalized experience. Stand in awe before the legendary temple of Angkor Wat, admire the sculpted façade of Bayon temple, and discover the atmospheric jungle temple of Ta Prohm.

Learn the basics of Cambodian pottery and ceramic painting at a Siem Reap artist workshop, where you’ll create a bowl, mug, and saucers with help from a local artist. A hands-on way to immerse yourself in Cambodia’s artistic culture, you’ll finish the workshop with unique-to-you souvenirs made using traditional techniques.

As the old saying goes give a man fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a life time ! We at Decorisan are teaching soap making from scratch so that he/she can take the knowledge with him/her and use it any time.

Sustainable activity where you can exchange with our craftsmen and learn new skills from the local culture and practiced for decades. Unique tour and activity far from the hustle and bustle of the city of Siem Reap.

Learn about Cambodian art and design at a hands-on ceramic painting workshop in Siem Reap, decorating a pair of elephant mugs that are a unique alternative to mass-produced souvenirs. With instructors on-hand to share the history and techniques of Cambodian painting, you’ll watch a demonstration of traditional ceramics making, and experience a side of local culture that many visitors miss.

It is a highly interactive and hands-on workshop that will allow you to learn about natural soaps in such a simple way that you will never have thought.

Meet up Ms. Hur, a friendly and helpful local seamstress. Ms. Hur used to be an orphanage kid who faced difficulties to catch up lessons at school. So, she decided to work as a garment factory worker in Phnom Penh. After 10 years spending her life as a factory worker, she decided to have her own shop by turn a recycled cement bag into various fashionable bags to sell in the market. Until now, she is employing over 10 employees who has the same background as her. Come and meet her at per own store, started to make your personalized fashionable wallet or shopping bag through the instruction from her. Learn and understand all the processes of making this bag from size measurement, chopping, using sewing machine and so on. Make your masterpiece bag one and appreciate your afford you have done on it. Go and grab some incredible fun!

 Volunteer Activities in Cambodia-Depending on the volunteer activities you participate in, Cambodian volunteers often participate in short-term spring and summer vacations. Well digging experience in a small village away from Siem Reap! Dig wells with well diggers. Well, a well is dug like this! The dug well is actually used by the villagers in their daily lives.

- A unique activity in Cambodia, which combines culture, nature and experience! - Take a step towards responsible tourism, be an actor and not a spectator. Through these cultural activities, you support the work that these women provide every day in the making of local products. - Dare and let yourself be guided by our incredible team :)

Participants in this class will learn a craft rare and inspiring, unlike any other kind of sketching taught in a typical art class. Our local artist will walk you through the unique art he created himself, 7 years ago, and has spent time perfecting ever since. You’ll learn of an art form that could well have been discovered in the ancient years of the Khmer Empire. It’s incredible how new art forms are still being discovered to this day. He is a gifted artist who wishes to share his talents with the world at large and by attending this class, you’ll be having fun while helping out a local artist in the process.

Join with our local hosts and gain new core experience by enjoying converting the brass bullet to impressive fashion jewellery. Ammo is one of a new activity where visitor can join local host transforming ammo into beautiful necklaces, earing, rings, bangles, cufflinks, money clips, and impressive bracelet. It also makes fill-in styles temple ornaments in silver, with semi-precious jewels such as garnet, peridot, amethyst and Blue Zircon. This activity off you with core experience, interact with local hosts, learning traditional ammo making, have your own stylish ammo making and get your own souvenir products. Go and grab some fun until transferring back to your hotel. -Be ready at hotel and waiting for transfer 15 minutes before departure. -Transfer to Ammo workshop and listen to the instructor -Start to make your own one that you can bring home or use for your self -After the class done, transfer back to hotel

- A great opportunity and fun activity to interact with professional circus artists and learn a few of circus act techniques - The workshop experience ensures to provide excitement beyond temples - Perfect combination between workshop, dinner and circus show which will make your day get unforgettable memory

- Support sustainable project development (hearing-impaired tutors) - Learn how to make pottery in ceramics from your own hands - Completely fun ideal activity especially for friends and family