Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
May
This is the beginning of the low season for visitors as the monsoon arrives (and lasts
till October), but there may be a last blast of hot weather to welcome mango season
and some delicious ripe fruits.
Chat Preah Nengkal (Royal Ploughing Ceremony)
Led by the royal family, the Royal Ploughing Ceremony is a ritual agricultural festival held
to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. It takes place in early May in
front of the National Museum, near the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, and the royal oxen
are said to have a nose for whether it will be a good harvest or a bad one.
Visakha Puja (Buddha Day)
A celebration of Buddha's birth, enlightenment and
parinibbana
(passing). Activities are
centred on wats. It falls on the eighth day of the fourth moon (May or June) and is best ob-
served at Angkor Wat, where you can see candle-lit processions of monks.
