Cambodia Tour Packages From Delhi — Angkor Wat Properly, The $30 E-Visa, And The Vietnam Question

The visa — USD 30 on the official portal, and not a dollar more

Cambodia is not visa-free for Indians, and the internet around its visa is a swamp of lookalike sites charging double. Here is the verified position, checked on 27 August 2026:

The e-visa (Type T, tourist) costs USD 30, applied on the official government portal — evisa.gov.kh — and nowhere else. Cambodia cut the fee from USD 36 to a flat USD 30 in January 2025; any site quoting more is adding its own margin.
The application takes about 15–20 minutes online: passport bio-page scan, a digital photo, your Cambodia hotel address, card payment. Processing runs around 3 working days.
The visa is single entry, 30-day stay, valid for 90 days from issue — so apply up to three months before you fly, not the night before.
Visa on arrival exists at the same USD 30 at the major airports for those who prefer it, but the queue at Siem Reap in season is not how we would start your holiday. Carry crisp US dollars if you take this route.
Print two copies of the e-visa approval and carry them; one is collected at entry.

We file the e-visa for every passenger as part of the package — on the official portal, at the official fee.

Why Cambodia — and why it is a second-trip country

Angkor is not one temple. It is the remains of the largest pre-industrial city on earth, spread across four hundred square kilometres of forest — Angkor Wat itself, the enormous smiling stone faces of the Bayon, and Ta Prohm, where strangler-fig roots pour over the walls like something molten. For an Indian traveller there is an extra register: these are the largest Hindu temple ruins anywhere, built by the Khmer empire to Vishnu and Shiva, their walls carrying the Ramayana and the Samudra Manthan in kilometre-long bas-reliefs. Reading the churning of the ocean carved by twelfth-century Khmer hands, having grown up with the story, is a genuinely different experience from the one European visitors have.

We call it a second-trip country for honest reasons: the flight is a connection, not a nonstop; the trip is temple-led rather than beach-led; and it costs more than its neighbours per day of holiday because of the airfare and the Angkor pass. Travellers who loved Vietnam or who have done Thailand twice are Cambodia's natural audience. First international trip with children — go to Thailand or Malaysia instead; we will say so on the phone too.

Best time to visit Cambodia from Delhi — month by month

Month	Weather reality	Temple-day verdict	Price pressure
November	Dry season opens, greenery still lush	Excellent — our favourite month	Rising
December	Dry, coolest mornings	Peak, book early	High
January	Dry, pleasant	Excellent	High
February	Dry, warming	Very good	Medium-high
March	Hot, hazy	Sunrise-and-siesta pattern needed	Medium
April	Hottest (38°C+); Khmer New Year mid-month	Hard work; festive but shut for days	Low-medium
May	First rains	Green returns, showers short	Low
June–August	Green season — afternoon rain	Genuinely underrated: moats full, crowds thin	Low
September–October	Wettest	Countryside floods possible; temple circuit still runs	Lowest

November to February is the classic window — dry paths, bearable middays, sunrise crowds included in the deal. The contrarian value pick is June to August: Angkor's moats and forests at their greenest, half-empty temples, hotel prices at their kindest, paid for with a daily afternoon shower that temple mornings dodge anyway.

How many days do you actually need?

Three full temple days in Siem Reap is the honest core — one for the main circuit, one for the outer temples and one for sunrise plus revisits. Add two nights of Phnom Penh if the country's modern history matters to you. That makes 5N/6D the standard build. A 4N Siem Reap-only trip works when Cambodia is an add-on to Vietnam. Day-tripping Angkor in one day from a Bangkok itinerary is a crime against your own airfare.

Three Cambodia itineraries that actually run

Itinerary A — 5N/6D Siem Reap (3N) + Phnom Penh (2N): the full country

Day 1 — Arrive Siem Reap. Land at the new Siem Reap–Angkor airport, transfer in (about 45 minutes), evening on the Old Market / Pub Street grid to shake off the flight. Overnight Siem Reap. Day 2 — The small circuit. Angkor Wat through the morning, the Bayon's stone faces after lunch, Ta Prohm's tree-swallowed galleries late afternoon. A licensed guide is worth every dollar here — the carvings are a library only if someone reads them with you. Overnight Siem Reap. Day 3 — Sunrise + the grand circuit. Angkor Wat sunrise (5 am start, worth it once), then Preah Khan, Neak Pean and the quieter grand-circuit temples; late afternoon at Banteay Srei, the pink-sandstone jewel 35 km out, or the Tonlé Sap floating villages. Overnight Siem Reap. Day 4 — Fly or drive to Phnom Penh. The flight is 45 minutes; the road is about 6 hours. Evening walk on the riverside promenade. Overnight Phnom Penh. Day 5 — Phnom Penh. Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda in the morning; Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek in the afternoon for those who choose them — Cambodia's genocide memorials are harrowing and important, and entirely optional; we brief every group honestly beforehand. Overnight Phnom Penh. Day 6 — Depart from Phnom Penh.

Itinerary B — 4N/5D Siem Reap only: the Angkor immersion

All three temple days plus one flex day — Tonlé Sap, the Angkor National Museum (do it before the temples if you can), a Khmer cooking class, or nothing at all by the pool. The right build for temple-first travellers and for anyone bolting Cambodia onto another country.

Itinerary C — 8N/9D Vietnam + Cambodia: the classic combo

Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong (3–4N, from our Vietnam page) then the short HCMC–Siem Reap flight and Itinerary B. One long-haul fare, two countries, and the Mekong as the connecting thread. Needs the Vietnam e-visa and the Cambodia e-visa — two separate applications, both handled by us. This is the single most-requested Cambodia shape we quote.

What a Cambodia trip really costs from Delhi

*₹50,000–₹90,000 per person (indicative · 5N/6D · ex-Delhi · twin sharing · excludes GST & TCS)** *Indicative market range as of Aug 2026. Contact us on +91 97299 91755 for a current quote.

The flight is the swing factor: with no nonstop from Delhi, connections via Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Kuala Lumpur or Singapore take roughly 7.5–10 hours door to door and price anywhere from ₹22,000 to ₹40,000 return by season and lead time. On the ground Cambodia is cheap; getting there is not.

Sitting outside every package price, whoever you book with:

Visa: USD 30 per person — official e-visa fee, no more (see above).
The Angkor Pass — the one cost everyone forgets: USD 37 for one day, USD 62 for three days, USD 72 for seven days at 2026 prices, per person, bought at the official ticket centre or online; children under 12 free with passport proof. The three-day pass is the right buy for almost everyone and does not need to be used on consecutive days.
TCS on the package — a prepayment recovered when you file your ITR; rate confirmed at quote time.
GST on the invoice.
Personal spends: guide tips, sunrise tuk-tuk hires, museum entries, drinks.

Currency and daily spend — the double-currency country

Cambodia runs on US dollars and Cambodian riel side by side — dollars for anything over a few dollars, riel (about 4,100 to the dollar) as small change, and you will routinely pay in one and receive change in both. Carry clean, undamaged dollar notes; torn ones get refused. On the ground: a local meal USD 3–6, a good restaurant USD 8–15 per head, a remork (tuk-tuk) temple day USD 25–35, a licensed English-speaking guide about USD 35–50 a day. ₹2,000–3,500 per person per day beyond the package is comfortable. Cards work in hotels and bigger restaurants; the temples and markets are cash country.

Honeymoon, family, seniors — how Cambodia changes shape

Couples: quietly excellent — sunrise at Angkor, pool villas in Siem Reap at Bali-like prices, candlelit Khmer dinners. It is a romance of atmosphere rather than beaches; pair it with Phuket–Krabi or Vietnam's coast if you want sand. Families: best with children ten and up who will actually walk the temples; the heat and the stone stairs defeat younger legs. Tonlé Sap's floating villages are the child-pleaser day. Seniors: very doable with pacing — temple mornings, hotel afternoons, and skip the steep tower climbs (Angkor Wat's upper level has a dress code and a queue anyway). We plan one temple block per day, never two. The history question: Tuol Sleng and the Killing Fields are among the most affecting places in Asia and entirely optional. We never schedule them without asking, and never with young children.

Food — the vegetarian and Jain reality

Honest answer: Cambodia is the thinnest vegetarian terrain in this cluster, and pre-planning matters more here than anywhere else we send you. Khmer cooking leans on fish sauce and the fermented fish paste prahok — a "vegetable" dish is not vegetarian unless you say so. The workable lanes: Siem Reap's tourist economy has real vegetarian and vegan restaurants plus several Indian restaurants around the Old Market grid; "no fish sauce, no prahok, no meat" (your guide will teach you the Khmer) gets a genuine fried-vegetable-and-rice or vegetable amok almost anywhere; and hotels handle veg breakfasts easily. Jain travellers: possible, but only with us briefing the hotels and booking specific restaurants in advance — walk-in Jain eating in Cambodia is not realistic, and temple-day packed lunches need pre-arranging. Tell us at enquiry, not at the airport.

What NOT to do in Cambodia

Do not apply for the visa on a lookalike site. The official portal is evisa.gov.kh and the tourist fee is USD 30. Sites charging USD 50–80 are margin, not government.
Do not buy the one-day Angkor pass unless you genuinely have one day. The three-day pass at USD 62 is the correct product and its days need not be consecutive.
Do not touch or climb on the carvings, and dress with shoulders and knees covered — Angkor Wat's upper tier enforces it, and these are living religious sites, not ruins-as-playground.
Do not give money or sweets to children at the temples — it keeps them out of school; every responsible guide will tell you the same. Buy from the adult craft sellers instead if you want to help.
Do not carry torn or scribbled dollar notes — they will be refused everywhere, politely and absolutely.
Do not day-trip Angkor from Bangkok. Six hours of border and bus each way for two hours of temple is the worst itinerary in Southeast Asia.

Common mistakes Delhi travellers make

Paying double for the e-visa on a third-party site. Forgetting the Angkor pass when comparing package prices — it is USD 62 a head that some quotes include and others quietly don't; ask every operator, including us. Cramming all the temples into one savage 5 am–6 pm day and remembering only the heat. Booking April without knowing it is both the hottest month and Khmer New Year. And skipping the guide to save USD 40, then standing before the Churning of the Ocean of Milk with no one to read it.

Operator's note (FILL BEFORE PUBLISH): [YashTrip observation hook — e.g. actual e-visa approval turnaround from a recent file, or a real Vietnam+Cambodia combo costing YashTrip built.]

Frequently asked questions

Do Indians need a visa for Cambodia?

Yes. The official e-visa (Type T, tourist) costs USD 30 on the government portal evisa.gov.kh — the fee was cut from USD 36 in January 2025 — takes about 3 working days, and gives a single-entry 30-day stay, valid 90 days from issue. Visa on arrival is also USD 30 at major airports. We file the e-visa for every passenger at the official fee.

How much does a Cambodia trip cost from Delhi?

Indicatively ₹50,000–₹90,000 per person for 5N/6D with flights, twin sharing, as of August 2026 — excluding GST and TCS. There is no nonstop from Delhi, so the connecting airfare (₹22,000–40,000 return by season) is the biggest swing. On the ground Cambodia is genuinely cheap. Call +91 97299 91755 for a current quote.

How much is the Angkor Wat entry ticket?

At 2026 prices: USD 37 for one day, USD 62 for three days, USD 72 for seven days, per person, with children under 12 free on passport proof. The three-day pass is the right buy for almost everyone, and its days don't have to be consecutive. Confirm whether any package you compare includes it — many quietly don't.

How do we fly from Delhi to Siem Reap?

Via one connection — Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City are usually fastest at roughly 7.5–9 hours door to door, with Kuala Lumpur and Singapore as alternatives — landing at the new Siem Reap–Angkor International Airport. Returns often run through Phnom Penh on a two-city itinerary, which saves backtracking.

When is the best time to visit Cambodia?

November to February — dry paths, cooler mornings, peak-season crowds included. March–April turn brutally hot. The underrated window is June–August: Angkor at its greenest, thin crowds and low prices, at the cost of a short afternoon shower most days. Avoid pinning a trip on late September–October, the wettest weeks.

How many days do we need for Angkor Wat?

Three temple days: the small circuit (Angkor Wat, Bayon, Ta Prohm), the grand circuit plus Banteay Srei, and a sunrise-and-revisit morning. That maps exactly onto the three-day pass. One rushed day sees stones; three unhurried days see the city they belonged to — with a licensed guide, who is the difference between the two.

Is Angkor Wat a Hindu temple?

It was built in the twelfth century as a Vishnu temple — the largest religious monument on earth — by the Khmer empire, and later became Buddhist; today it is both a living shrine and a national symbol. Its galleries carry the Ramayana, Mahabharata and Samudra Manthan in vast bas-reliefs, which is why Indian visitors often find it lands differently for them.

Can we combine Cambodia with Vietnam?

Yes — it is the classic pairing and our most-requested Cambodia shape: Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong first, then the short flight to Siem Reap, on one long-haul fare. It needs eight-plus nights and two separate e-visas (Vietnam's and Cambodia's), both of which we handle. See our Vietnam page for that half.

Is Cambodia safe for Indian tourists?

Siem Reap and the tourist circuit are relaxed and welcoming, with tourism police present around the temples. Sensible cautions: bag-snatching in Phnom Penh traffic (keep phones off the kerbside), only marked taxis or Grab at night, and refuse torn dollar notes when given change. The temples themselves are among the calmest crowded places you will visit.

Is vegetarian and Jain food available in Cambodia?

Vegetarian — yes, with care: Siem Reap has dedicated vegetarian and Indian restaurants, but everyday Khmer cooking uses fish sauce and prahok paste, so "no fish sauce, no prahok" must be said every time. Jain — only with advance planning; we brief hotels and pre-book restaurants, and pack Jain lunches for temple days. Tell us at enquiry.