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Large Garuda figure carved into the laterite outer wall of Prasat Preah Khan temple, Angkor
Private · Vespa or Vintage Jeep · 2 Days

2-Day Angkor Small + Grand Circuit by Vespa or Jeep

Both Angkor circuits over two mornings, driven by classic Vespa or vintage Jeep, with your own guide and a Khmer lunch each day.

Angkor is too big for one day and most people find that out too late. Two mornings fixes it. The first runs the inner loop, Angkor Wat through the South Gate to Bayon and the royal terraces, finishing under the roots of Ta Prohm. The second heads out to the Grand Circuit, a wider ring of forest temples where you can stand in a ruined gallery and hear nothing but cicadas. You pick your start between 7 and 9 AM on both days, your driver carries you gate to gate, and lunch is a sit-down in a Khmer house rather than a queue at a stall.

2 days · about 7.5 hours eachSmall Circuit day 1 · Grand Circuit day 2Private · just your groupVespa or Jeep, with your own driverKhmer lunch both daysYou pick the start, 7 to 9 AM
Why book the two-day private

The whole of Angkor, at a pace that holds up


  • Both circuits, and no temple twice. Day one is the Small Circuit, the icons everyone comes for. Day two is the Grand Circuit, the outer ring: Preah Khan, the healing pools of Neak Pean, Ta Som under its strangler fig, East Mebon with its corner elephants. Two separate loops, so nothing repeats.
  • Driven, so you never double back. Your driver drops you at one entrance and meets you at another, which means you walk each temple through once instead of retracing your steps to a parked vehicle. On the Small Circuit that alone saves most of an hour.
  • Your own guide and driver, both days. Private means just your group. The same two people travel with you across both mornings, so by day two your guide already knows how fast you walk and which carvings you stop for.
  • $24 less than booking the two days separately. The same two tours bought on their own come to $223. Together they are $199, with the Khmer-house lunch included on both days.
Your ride, your choice

Vespa or vintage Jeep


Same route, same guide, same price, on both days. The only question is what you want to sit in.

Classic Vespa

You ride pillion behind your own driver. Open air, the smell of the forest, and the narrow gate roads that a car cannot take comfortably. Best for one or two people who want to feel the ride.

Vintage Jeep

An open-sided Willys with your driver at the wheel. Room to spread out, shade over your head when the sun climbs, and space for a family or a group of four. Best if you would rather watch the road go by than be in it.

Either way you are a passenger, not a driver. You are free to look up.

Day 1 · Small Circuit · Vespa or Jeep

Angkor Wat, Bayon and the roots of Ta Prohm


The inner loop and the three temples everyone comes to Cambodia for, done in the cool half of the day and finished by mid-afternoon.

  • Start 7 to 9 AM, your pick
  • 17 km loop, 6 km each way from town
  • Khmer-house lunch
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
Morning · Angkor Wat, before the heat
7 to 9 AMYour Vespa or Jeep collects you from your hotel. You choose the hour when you book, so this is an early start or a civilised one, whichever suits the trip you are on.
First stopAngkor Wat. The outer galleries hold the longest bas-relief in the world, and your guide reads it rather than pointing at it. Time upstairs at the Bakan too, the topmost level, which opens around 7:40 AM and closes on Buddhist holy days and from 1 PM on the 14th and 28th. Your guide checks the date before you climb, and shoulders and knees have to be properly covered up there.
Late morning · Into Angkor Thom
NextIn through the South Gate, Tonle Om, along the causeway of stone gods and demons pulling on the naga. It is the most photographed gate at Angkor and still worth the stop.
ThenBayon, the temple of faces, in morning light while the stone is still catching shadow. Then the Terrace of the Elephants along the old royal square, where the king reviewed his army.
AfterOut through the Khmoth Gate, the Death Gate, the quietest of the ways out of Angkor Thom and the one the coaches do not use.
Midday · A village, then lunch, then Ta Prohm
MiddayA stop at the handicraft and recluse village inside the park, where families still live and work within the old temple grounds.
LunchA sit-down Khmer lunch in a traditional wooden house, with drinks. Not a buffet stop and not a queue.
AfternoonTa Prohm last, the strangler-fig temple, once the morning groups have moved on and there is room at the famous roots.
~2:30 PMBack at your hotel. The rest of the day is yours, and after seven hours in the sun you will want it.
Temples on Day 1
  • Angkor Wat
  • South Gate (Tonle Om)
  • Bayon
  • Terrace of the Elephants
  • Death Gate (Khmoth)
  • Handicraft village
  • Ta Prohm

This is your private tour. Your guide reads your pace and adapts as the morning goes, longer where you linger and a shorter stop where you do not. The order can shift if a temple is busy or closed for a ceremony.

Day 2 · Grand Circuit · Vespa or Jeep

Preah Khan, Neak Pean and the outer ring


The wide loop most two-day visitors skip, eight stops through forest temples where the crowd thins out to almost nothing by the third one.

  • Start 7 to 9 AM, your pick
  • Outer loop, one way round
  • Khmer lunch by Srah Srang
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
Morning · Preah Khan and the water temples
7 to 9 AMCollected from your hotel again, same driver, same vehicle, same choice of hour.
First stopPreah Khan, a monastery city with a long processional axis and a two-storey building nobody has fully explained. You walk in one end and out the other while your driver moves round to meet you.
ThenNeak Pean, a small island shrine in the middle of a baray, built as a healing pool. You cross a boardwalk to reach it, which is why it feels separate from everything else that morning.
ThenKrol Ko, small and often empty, with fine carved pediments lying where they fell.
Late morning · Ta Som and East Mebon
NextTa Som, where a strangler fig has swallowed the east gate whole. It is the same drama as Ta Prohm with a fraction of the people in front of it.
ThenEast Mebon, which once stood on an island in a reservoir that has since dried out. Stone elephants guard the corners, and you climb it for the view back over the forest.
Midday · Lunch at the water, then Ta Ney
LunchA Khmer meal in a private house by Srah Srang, the royal bathing pool. The steps down to the water are the good place to sit afterwards.
AfterA handicraft village stop, then Ta Ney, deep in the trees off a laterite track. It gets a fraction of Ta Prohm's visitors and often you have it entirely to yourselves.
AfternoonBack to your hotel. Two days, both circuits, and nothing seen twice.
Temples on Day 2
  • Preah Khan
  • Neak Pean
  • Krol Ko
  • Ta Som
  • East Mebon
  • Srah Srang
  • Handicraft village
  • Ta Ney

Honest note: day two is the longer walk of the two, spread over more stops. If you would rather trade a temple for a slower lunch, say so on the morning and your guide will rebuild the afternoon around it.

The magic moment · Day 2

Ta Ney, at the end of a laterite track


The last temple of the second day is the one you will talk about.

By the time you reach Ta Ney you have seen the two most famous temples on earth and a dozen more besides. Then your driver turns off the tarmac onto a laterite track, the forest closes over the road, and you stop at a ruin with no ticket booth, no vendors and usually nobody else. Roots have come over the wall the same way they have at Ta Prohm, only here there is no queue for the photograph and no one asking you to move along. Your guide sits down on a fallen block and lets you wander.

Same forest, same stone, an hour and a world away from the coach park.

Massive tree roots cascading over a Ta Nei stone wall.
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Both circuits, in photos


What guests say

4.9 stars · 319 reviews · real names, real dates


Svenska N 20 February 2026
Google

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.

nicolas peggy 20 February 2026
Google

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 !

Carl K 20 August 2025
Google

Vespa Tour Cambodia I can only give positive feedback here. A top-notch organization with incredibly friendly guides. Highly recommended.

Selma2500 22 February 2025
Tripadvisor

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.

Richard B 27 January 2025
Google

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.

Mike K 15 November 2024
Google

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.

Bryce E 6 November 2024
Tripadvisor

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++++

LibbyTilley 4 June 2024
Google

An incredible way to see the Cambodian countryside outside of Siem Reap My sister, niece & I had a wonderful time on the Siem Reap Vespa Adventures Tour. It was interesting to get out into the countryside, see things the "local" way, visiting a Buddhist temple, and experiencing the market life. The lunch we had at a local home was simply amazing, and I say this as a true foodie! My driver was Tut, who spoke excellent English, and the entire team of guides were very professional. We all felt very safe and looked after, always leading with the "safety first" motto in wearing helmets. I highly recommend this tour! Libby (Fort Worth, TX)

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The fine print, upfront

Included and not included


Included

  • Local Cambodian guide, both daysEnglish by default; other languages on request.
  • Your own driver and vehicle, both daysClassic Vespa or vintage Jeep, your choice.
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off, both daysThe Vespa or Jeep collects you, no separate transfer.
  • Khmer-house lunch, both daysDay 1 in a traditional wooden house, day 2 in a private house by Srah Srang.
  • Bottled water and drinks throughout, both days

Not included

  • Angkor PassTwo temple days, and there is no 2-day pass, so you want the 3-day at $62. It is valid for any 3 days within a 7-day window, which leaves a spare day, so the two days can be back-to-back or spaced apart. Buy online at angkorenterprise.gov.kh, not at the gate.
  • AccommodationYou stay at your own Siem Reap hotel; we collect you both mornings.
  • Meals outside the two lunchesBreakfast and dinner are your own, and both days finish in time to eat back in town.
  • GratuitiesAlways optional.
Before you book

Is this combo for you


Book it if

  • You have two full mornings in Siem ReapOne day at Angkor means choosing what to miss. Two does not.
  • You would rather be driven than pedalYou are a passenger on both days, on a Vespa or in a Jeep, with someone else watching the road.
  • You want the outer temples, not just the postcardsDay two is the reason to book this rather than a single day tour.
  • You are travelling as a couple, a family or a small groupIt is private throughout, so the vehicle and the guide are yours.

Think again if

  • You want a sunriseThis combo starts between 7 and 9 AM. For the pre-dawn version, the 2-Day Angkor Sunrise and Grand Circuit tour is the one you want.
  • You only have one dayBook the Angkor Wat Private Tour on its own instead. Two days squeezed into one is how people end up remembering the heat rather than the temples.
  • You want to ride yourselfNobody self-drives the Vespa on this tour. If you would rather be the one riding, the e-bike version of this same two-day route exists.

Children are welcome. Ages 4 to 12 get 30% off, and under 4s ride free.

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Straight answers

FAQ


Do I see the same temples twice across the two days?

No temple repeats. Day one runs the Small Circuit, which is Angkor Wat, Bayon and Ta Prohm with the gates and terraces between them. Day two runs the Grand Circuit, a separate outer loop from Preah Khan round to Ta Ney.

Is there a 2-day Angkor pass?

No, there is no 2-day Angkor pass. The three options are 1-day at $37, 3-day at $62 and 7-day at $72, so for two temple days you buy the 3-day at $62. It works out cheaper than two single-day passes anyway.

Do the two days have to be back-to-back, or can I space them out?

They do not have to be consecutive. The 3-day pass is valid for any 3 days within a 7-day window and this tour only uses two of them, so you can leave a rest day in between and still be covered. Tell us your preferred dates when you book.

Can I choose Vespa or vintage Jeep, and what is the difference?

You choose, and the price is the same either way. The Vespa puts you in the open air on the narrow gate roads and suits one or two people. The Jeep gives you shade and room, which matters more with a family or a group of four.

Do I drive, or am I driven?

You are driven, on both days. On the Vespa you ride pillion behind your own driver, and in the Jeep your driver is at the wheel. That is deliberate: it means you can look up at the gates instead of at the road, and it lets us drop you at one temple entrance and collect you at another.

What is included to eat?

A sit-down Khmer lunch on both days, with bottled water and drinks throughout. Day one eats in a traditional wooden house inside the park, day two in a private house by the Srah Srang water. Breakfast and dinner are your own.

Is it really private, and how many people?

Just your group, both days. No strangers join, and the same guide and driver stay with you across the two mornings.

Can kids join?

Yes. Children aged 4 to 12 get 30% off and under 4s go free. The Jeep is usually the easier choice with younger children because there is room to sit together and shade overhead.

What if it rains?

The tour still runs. We carry good poncho-style raincoats, and the Jeep has a roof. Rain in Cambodia tends to arrive hard in the afternoon and pass, and both of these days finish before or around the time it usually starts.

What languages can the guide speak?

English as standard. Other languages can be arranged on request, so ask when you book and we will tell you honestly whether we can cover it for your dates.

What is the cancellation policy?

Cancel 14 or more days ahead for a full refund. Inside 14 days it is 50%. Inside 5 days, or a no-show, there is no refund.

Behind Adventures Cambodia

Akim Ly


Akim Ly, founder of Adventures Cambodia, by the Angkor Wat moat

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.

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