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Très belle visite en scooter des principaux temples autour de Siam Reap. Le guide était excellent. Nous avons pu échanger en français avec l'organisation. Le restaurant du deuxième jour était remarquable.
Angkor Wat before dawn on the first morning, sunset on the great lake at the end of the third.
This trip is built around light. It opens in the dark, 4:45 AM in your own Jeep or Vespa, so that you are standing at Angkor Wat when the towers come out of the night, and it is finished by noon. Day two takes the Grand Circuit through the quiet northern forest, done by about 2:30 PM. Day three belongs to you until early afternoon, when the Jeep runs out to the Tonlé Sap: a village on stilts, a boat of your own through the middle of it, and the same sun you watched rise over the temples going down over open water.
Into the park in the dark, the sunrise by the north pond, then breakfast, then Bayon and Ta Prohm before the day gets hot.
Day one is breakfast only, with no lunch stop, because it finishes at noon. Most guests sleep in the afternoon, and they are right to.
Seven sites on the wider loop, at a fraction of day one's crowd. Same start window, same finish, very different feeling.
Day two is deliberately the quieter one, and it is the day guests say surprised them most.
A free morning, a Jeep run out to the great lake, a private boat through a village on stilts, and the light going down over open water.
The village looks completely different depending on the water level, and neither version is the wrong one to see. Day 3 is outside the park, so no Angkor Pass is needed for it. We will not schedule it on a Phare Circus evening.
You get up at half past four for the first one. You do nothing at all for the second.
The Angkor Wat sunrise is the most photographed twenty minutes in Cambodia and most people experience it in a crowd of several hundred, having arrived on a bus at a time somebody else chose. Going in your own vehicle, with a guide who knows which side of the northern pond is worth standing on, is a different morning entirely.
Three days later you are on a boat at the other end of the day, an hour out of town, watching the same sun go the other way over open water with a drink in your hand and nothing to do. Nobody photographs that one for Instagram. It is usually the one people remember.
Très belle visite en scooter des principaux temples autour de Siam Reap. Le guide était excellent. Nous avons pu échanger en français avec l'organisation. Le restaurant du deuxième jour était remarquable.
If you want to visit the Temples through the Angkor forest, this is the best idea to sneak into it on a Vespa ! And you can still enjoy the sunset and stay secured thanks to the guide. We really enjoyed ! Thank you !
Angkor VIP style. Wonderful day in the company of Benedict who took us off the beaten track, discover treasures of Angkor, away from the crowds of tourists. Departure from our house in vintage jeep. Refreshing wipes scented with jasmine water. Temples, both splendid and isolated. Little paths in the jungle. Backdoors. A few mysteries revealed thanks to his detailed knowledge of the sites and their history. Exquisite lunch at home. An indispensable and unavoidable escape.
Fantastic day out Really fantastic tour on the Vespas - thanks so much to our three guides who made us feel safe and looked after us really well. They took us to see the mine detecting rats (brilliant visit) which was unexpected, and the lake and lunch. Really a super day out.
Siem Reap Vespa Our Vespa guide was spectacular. His English was excellent. He was knowledgeable about the city and its culture. He answered all questions, including restaurant recommendations for other sites in the country to see, and even answered a few questions about Anger Wat that we forgot to ask. Our drivers were cautious, We also went on a Vespa Tour with the same sound quality in Hanoi.
Great Trip and Staff is A+++. Great experience to try all kinds of food and the staff is amazing. They drive very safe and have a lot of fun too. Was able to give them preferences and what we like and don't like, they nailed the experience. Thanks Vespa Tour Team! A++++
Daily Life of Cambodia people. We could experience a lot of the daily life of Cambodian people. In the hot weather, this means of transport was enjoyable. All our questions have been answered. We will not forget this journey on the Vespa.
Another view of Siem Rep. Tour of Seam Rep on Vespa made another vision of the town. Food street was amazing! And our daughter was a good singer at the karaoke! All the family enjoyed this trip
Yes, and once. It is the single most-wanted experience in Siem Reap and the light on the towers reflected in the northern pond is genuinely worth the alarm. What ruins it for most people is the delivery: a shared bus on a fixed departure, several hundred people, and a boxed breakfast in a car park afterwards.
You go in your own vehicle at a time we set with you, your guide picks the spot, and once the light is up you stop for a proper breakfast before the morning temples.
Our $365 three-day spends all three days in the temples. This one spends two, then hands the last day to the lake, so the trip ends on a boat at sunset instead of a third circuit. Against our 2-day sunrise combo, this is simply that trip with the lake day added on the end.
No. Your Jeep or Vespa collects you, the same vehicle you have for the rest of the day. Both are road-legal with proper headlights, so there is no need to swap into anything else for the dark leg. Tuk-tuks are used for the pre-dawn pickup on our e-bike sunrise tour only, where riding in the dark would not be safe.
Yes. Once the light is up we stop for a proper breakfast before carrying on to Bayon and Ta Prohm, and it is welcome after a 4:45 start. Where we stop depends on the day and on where you are staying, so leave that one to your guide.
No, and there does not need to be. Day one finishes around noon, so it runs on breakfast and drinks and you eat lunch wherever you want once you are back. Day two includes lunch by Srah Srang. Day three begins after lunch and has snacks on the boat.
The 3-day pass, $62 per person, bought online in advance at angkorenterprise.gov.kh rather than queued for at the office. There is no 2-day pass, so this is the pass any two-day temple visit needs anyway. Days 1 and 2 use it; the lake needs none, so the pass's third day stays spare and valid all week, good for one more temple on a free morning. Children under 12 enter free with a passport.
No. The pass is valid on any three days inside a 7-day window and the lake day needs no pass at all, so we can space the itinerary around whatever else you have booked.
Kampong Phluk, about an hour from Siem Reap, not Chong Kneas. Chong Kneas is the closest to town and the one with the documented problems: boats diverting to overpriced floating restaurants, pressured donations, and years of poor reviews to show for it. We go out on a private boat belonging to one of the Kampong Phluk families rather than on a shared twenty-seater.
The village looks completely different, and it is worth seeing either way. High water means boats mooring where people's front steps end and the mangrove reachable by paddled boat. Low water means the same houses standing clear on stilts you could park a car under, a longer approach over dry ground, and usually no mangrove trip. Tell us your dates when you enquire and we will tell you which version you are booking.
Yes, though think about the 4:45 AM start before you book it for young ones. Ages 4 to 12 get 30% off, which brings it to $206.50, and under-4s go free. Children under 12 also enter the park free with a passport. If the pre-dawn start is the problem, the same three days without the sunrise is our other option and it costs less.
At your own hotel. This is a touring itinerary, not a package with accommodation, and we collect you from your door every day.
I grew up inside the walls of Angkor Wat, in the pagoda where my grandfather, Loung Sake, served as Grand Abbot. The pagoda still stands today, just inside the enclosure.
Girls weren't allowed to sleep in the monastery, so I shaved my head and dressed as a boy to stay close to him. He taught me Sanskrit on palm leaves.
Adventures Cambodia started in 2013. Every tour is private and led by a local.
