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Weekend in Battambang Itinerary – 48 Hours in Cambodia’s Laidback Riverside City. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved. Old Battambang railway bridge.

Weekend in Battambang Itinerary – 48 Hours in Cambodia’s Laidback Riverside City

A weekend in Battambang, Cambodia, is just enough time for this laidback riverside city. Of course three days is perfect, however, 48 hours in Battambang is far better than twenty four. Our two day Battambang itinerary will ensure you make the most of your time there.

We recommend you spend a weekend in Battambang, Cambodia’s northern city of Battambang because weekends in Siem Reap can be busy year-round, even in Siem Reap’s long low season, and are not ideal if you want to visit Angkor Wat without the crowds.

Save your Angkor temple excursions for weekdays instead when the Khmer Empire archaeological sites are less busy and do a road trip through Northern Cambodia’s rice fields and market towns for a weekend in Battambang, when the laidback riverside city will be at its liveliest.

If you’re making your way to Siem Reap from Bangkok, Battambang makes a brilliant first stop to spend a few days unwinding after the big city chaos of Thailand’s capital and before a busy time in Temple Town trundling between Angkor Archaeological Park and Siem Reap’s restaurants, cafes and bars.

If you’re an expat in Siem Reap, a weekend in Battambang is pure bliss if for no other reason than the opportunity it affords to escape the tourist hoards in high season and to savour the lush green countryside in the monsoonal low season.

And while I don’t believe that 48 hours in Battambang is sufficient (we used to spend three days in Battambang on the Cambodia Culinary Tours and Travel and Food Writing and Photography Retreats we hosted pre-pandemic), a weekend in Battambang will provide just enough time to get a taste of this laidback provincial city and its surrounding villages, markets, pagodas, and museums, and engage with its friendly residents.

Published 8 August 2019; updated 8 October 2022

Weekend in Battambang Itinerary – 48 Hours in Cambodia’s Laidback Riverside City

Here’s how we recommend you spend a weekend in Battambang although you could easily follow this 2-day Battambang itinerary mid-week as well.

Where to Stay on Your Weekend in Battambang

Check into one of our recommended places to stay in Battambang. We love colonial-inspired Bambu Hotel in the centre for its charming rooms, swimming pool, warm service, a good on-site restaurant, and buzzy bar. Book one of the rooms in the main building overlooking the pool.

If you don’t mind staying in a sleepy village on the edge of Battambang, then there are two more boutique hotels with swimming pools on the outskirts of the city. Maisons Wat Kor has rooms with polished floorboards and high ceilings set in traditional-style wooden houses.

Nearby Battambang Resort, surrounded by rice fields, has sleek contemporary rooms, a decent on-site restaurant, and a small swimming pool.

Note that the atmospheric B&B Bric-a-Brac in the heart of the historic quarter of Battambang is now permanently closed, a victim of the pandemic.

How to Get Around Battambang

A knowledgeable Battambang tuk tuk driver is a must and one of the best Battambang tuk tuk drivers is Mr Ol (092 563 957), who we use every time we spend a weekend in Battambang.

Tell Mr Ol that Lara and Terence of the Grantourismo site recommended you contact him and he take extra good care of you. If Mr Ol is not available, he’ll organise another excellent driver for you for your 48 hours in Battambang.

Ask the driver to meet you at your Battambang hotel upon your arrival so you can discuss this itinerary with him in advance to make the most of your stay in Battambang.

For a private tour guide, we recommend Battambang-born Miss Sokin Nou (070 343 402), an official archaeological guide with a passion for Cambodian food now based in Siem Reap, who returns to Battambang to guide tours. Sokin also works with Mr Ol. 

Day One in Battambang – How to Spend Your First 24 Hours in Battambang

Click through to our One Day in Battambang itinerary and follow that for your first 24 hours in Battambang and then return here for a plan for the second day of your weekend in Battambang.

Day Two in Battambang – How to Spend the New 24 Hours in Battambang

Here’s how we recommend you spend the second day of your weekend in Battambang.

Breakfast in Battambang

One of Cambodia’s most beloved breakfast dishes after nom banh chok is kuy teav, a noodle soup typically served with pork, beef or chicken, and sometimes duck.

After Mi Kiev Tia Kwai, which we recommend for duck soup in our one day in Battambang itinerary, some of the next best kuy teav in Battambang is to be found in Wat Kor village, a hamlet on the outskirts of the city, where Mr Lee Mun and Mrs Te Lieng have been serving steaming bowls of kuy teav since 1995.

We love their classic rendition topped with thin slices of juicy pork. We also like the addition of offal although we appreciate not everyone will. Whatever you order, don’t forget to add fresh herbs, chilli and lime juice, and dunk your youtiao (Chinese doughnuts) into the soup.

Morning in Battambang

There are few better ways to start the second day of your weekend in Battambang than with a morning at the markets. Cambodia’s most fertile and agriculturally rich region, Battambang province is best-known for growing the country’s finest produce, which is why it’s called Cambodia’s rice bowl or bread basket.

After breakfast, have you tuk tuk driver take you to our favourite market, lively Phsar Boeung Choeuk, which is a distribution point for suppliers as much as a market where locals shop and eat. This means there’s always lots of activity.

Expect colourful stalls selling beautiful fresh fruit and vegetables, a ‘fragrant’ wet market, stalls selling all sorts of condiments and dry goods. Must-buys: street food galore, condiments, and kitchenware, including Angkor Wat-engraved cutlery.

If you’re up for more, Phsar Naht market in the heart of town is also fun to explore. Great buys include batik sarongs, enamel trays and knock-off shoes. It’s also worth popping back to the market in the early evening when the interior is closed but the evening stalls around the perimeter sell everything from fresh tropical fruits to succulent rotisserie chickens.

Coffee and Art in Battambang

An emerging art destination, a weekend in Battambang has to include a gallery or two. Just around the corner from Bambu Hotel (see below), Romcheik 5 Art Space is named after the Battambang neighbourhood where it was first established in 2012, with the help of a donor, by four young local artists, Hak Bor, Seyha Hour, Chanpeh Nget, and Chankrim Mil.

All graduates of Battambang’s Phare Ponleu Selpak visual arts school, the artists share backgrounds that include abandonment by their parents, hard labour in Thailand where they were forced to work as children, and exile, loneliness and trauma. Their work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the USA.

The gallery, which they call a ‘Countryside Art Museum’, has been expanded and a new building added over the years, so that it now has three levels, including a permanent collection of almost 200 artworks, and space for temporary exhibits of Cambodian contemporary artists.

There is also has a lovely rooftop cafe with an edible garden and views of the tropical surrounds and pagoda roofs, where you can grab a coffee and meal. The gallery charges a US$5 entry fee which goes towards the support of an artist in residence programme, art materials and maintenance.

Lunch in Battambang

Head around the corner to breezy Russey Restaurant by the pool at colonial-style Bambu Hotel, where you’ll find generous portions of Cambodian specialties, along with some Thai favourites and Western comfort food if you’re already having cravings or are travelling with kids.

We recommend the enormous fresh spring rolls, tasty salt and pepper calamari, and one of the best Cambodian curries around, which should suffice for lunch for two. If you’re hungry or there are more of you, also order the grilled beef and chicken skewers and the Pad Khmer, a Cambodian take on Thailand’s Pad Thai.

There are also freshly squeezed juices, cold beers, and good wines by the glass. See our guide to eating and drinking in Battambang for more ideas.

Afternoon in Battambang

If you enjoyed discovering the villages on your first morning in Battambang, then engage your tuk tuk driver for another village tour and spend your second afternoon in Battambang trundling through the villages on the way to Phnom Banan or Banan Mountain, around 20 kilometres out of town.

Sangkae River

Ask your driver to take the shady riverside road along the Sangkae River for part of the way to Phnom Banan and you’ll pass through diminutive villages with traditional wooden houses and fruit orchards.

You can stop at river bends to photograph farmers tending to crops on the riverbanks, small markets to sample local snacks, and cross colonial-era suspension bridges, built by the French, for wonderful river views. 

Muslim Fishing Village

One fascinating stop along the way is the sleepy Muslim fishing village, where you’ll find a mosque, ramshackle timber houses, goats and chickens, and shy but friendly residents selling Cambodian snacks, such as fish paste grilled in banana leaves.

Some enterprising villagers are starting to encourage tourism to provide additional income to the community, and one activity they’ve launched is a slow cruise on the Sangker River on a traditional wooden fishing boat. You’ll see the sign promoting the activity near the goat pen. If not, ask the villagers to point you in the right direction.

Cambodia Peace Museum

Once you’re on the other side of the river, which can be reached by one of the old suspension bridges, which tuk tuks and motorbikes can carefully cross, call into the Cambodia Peace Museum, launched in October 2018 by the Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies (CPCS).

Spread across a handful of former school buildings, the museum celebrates the resilience of Cambodians as it tells the history of war and peace in Cambodia, starting with the civil war in the 1970s that continued through the 1990s, with an uplifting focus on the country’s peace-building and reconciliation efforts rather than war itself.

Exhibits cover the different approaches to halting the conflict, from the peace process that resulted in the signing of the 1991 Paris Peace Accords to the efforts led by Cambodian civil society, former combatants, different faith groups, and the government. While you can wander around yourself, if your knowledge of the subject is limited, you will find a guided tour more engaging.

Prasat Phnom Banan Winery

Ten minutes down the road is Banan Winery or Prasat Phnom Banan Winery, named after nearby Banan temple. For wine enthusiasts, Southeast Asian wineries with their grape vineyards fringed by banana plantations and palm trees are a must-visit for the novelty factor more than anything, and Banan Winery is no exception.

Established in 1999, when self-taught wine-makers Leng Chan Tol and husband Chan Thai Chhoung planted their first vines which were brought from France, the couple and their sons now produce 10,000 bottles a year of Red Wine, a Shiraz-Cabernet Sauvignon blend, which you can sample – along with their Phnom Banon Brandy, ginger juice and grape juice. A warning: as the family says, the wine is “not to foreign tastes”.

Phnom Banan

Once you arrive at Phnom Banan, you’ll find a small hilltop archaeological site without the crowds of Angkor. Climb the 358 steps to see several handsome 11th century brick towers, one which contains Buddha statues wrapped in mandarin robes.

Nearby, you can ride the new bamboo train, popular with Cambodians although foreign tourists and expats still seem to prefer the more exhilarating ride through the rice fields on the old bamboo train, which is running again on the new rail line that a proper train service now operates on.

Sundowners in Battambang

Battambang’s best gin and tonics can be sipped at one of Battambang’s best happy hours at the alfresco bar at Bambu Hotel, where the stools fill with visitors and locals, including long-term expats with enthralling stories. Convivial owner Pat can generally be found perched on a stool greeting guests, sharing stories, and shouting the occasional drink. 

Dinner in Battambang

A perfect weekend in Battambang itinerary wouldn’t be complete without dinner at Jaan Bai (on Street 2), which means ‘rice bowl’ in Khmer. The social enterprise and hospitality training restaurant was started by Cambodia Children’s Trust with the support of Australian chef David Thompson and Australian restaurateur John Fink.

Now ran in cooperation with the guys behind the Feel Good Coffee Company, who helped make neighbouring Kinyei Cafe a success, Jaan Bai is located in a stylish renovated shop-house. The buzzy restaurant features local art on the walls, murals by Battambang artists on the exterior, and an outdoor eating/drinking area furnished with wooden pallets and astro turf.

The menu features pan-Asian appetisers, such as salt and pepper calamari with basil and chilli, corn fritters with a chilli ginger caramel dip, and pork belly bao with slaw, peanuts and five spice.

Mains include Cambodian and Thai classics, such as Kampot pepper prawns with chilli jam, and banana flower chicken with lemongrass, garlic, galangal, and kaffir lime.

Don’t miss Christine Manfield’s pork and crab congee. Christine cooked the heavenly rice porridge at a fundraiser dinner at Jaan Bai and it was so popular they added it to the menu.

Cocktails in Battambang

Up for a final drink to celebrate a weekend in Battambang well spent? Then return to Street 2 and atmospheric Miss Wong, the Battambang sister to Siem Reap’s finest cocktail bar, for a nightcap. Read more about Miss Wong in our one day in Battambang itinerary.

 

Important Battambang Travel Tips

  • Buy travel insurance as soon as you book your flights, so you’re covered in case of flight cancellations, missed connections and lost luggage, not to mention Covid, accidents, medical emergencies, and evacuations. Travel insurance is essential in Cambodia, where hospitals are basic at best.
  • We recommend Klook for buying flights, airport transfers, train tickets, bus tickets, ferry tickets, SIM cards, museum tickets, and tours.
  • Keep in mind that during the Southeast Asian high season (the winter dry season), the best small boutique hotels can be booked out months in advance, so book accommodation as soon as you book flights. 
  • For travel between Cambodian cities, we use bookmebus.
  • We like both Klook (link above) and Get Your Guide for booking local tours and hiring guides, as well as tickets to attractions, museum, cruises, and so on. 

Staying longer than a weekend in Battambang? Browse all our Battambang stories.

Planning a trip to Cambodia? Lara can craft a bespoke itinerary to Battambang. More details on our Retreats and Tours site. We also introduce travellers to Cambodian cuisine and culture on our small group Culinary Tours and Food and Travel writing and Photography Retreats which we hoist in conjunction with our Cambodian tour partners and local guides.

Do you live in Battambang or have you spent 24 hours in Battambang? We’d love to hear what your idea of a perfect weekend in Battambang is. Please let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

For more on these culinary connections you’ll have to wait for our Cambodian cookbook and culinary history. In a hurry to know? Come support the project on Patreon. (link in bio)

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It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour matches the furnishings of our rented apartment. So, no, I did not colour-coordinate the interiors to match our cat’s eyes. 

I keep getting DMs from pet clothing brands wanting to “partner” with Pepper and send her free cat clothes and cat accessories. Although she did wear a kerchief for a few years in her more adventurous fashion-forward teenage years, I cannot see this cat in clothes now, can you? 

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