1 Day Private Tour Sambor Preikuk Cycling

5.0 (4 reviews) Siem Reap, Cambodia
Duration7h - 10h
Free cancellationFull refund up to 24 hours before
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TicketMobile or paper ticket accepted
LanguagesEnglish
Private tourOnly your group will participate
Pickup offeredSee the meeting and pickup details below

Overview

Cycling at Sambor Prei Kuk is unique because it allows you to explore the jungle-clad, pre-Angkorian temples and their natural, serene surroundings at a slow pace, offering a peaceful contrast to more crowded sites like Angkor Wat. The experience includes riding through rural villages, past local plantations, and enjoying the relatively quiet atmosphere, making it an ideal way to discover this UNESCO World Heritage site that was the capital of the Chenla Empire.
The unique for Sambor Prei Kuk temple is its pre-Angkorian architecture, particularly the use of octagonal temples and "flying palace" carvings, which set a precedent for later Khmer styles. As a former capital of the Chenla Empire during 6th to 7th century, the site's ruins are embraced by nature, creating a distinct blend of ancient architecture and the jungle, a contrast to the larger, more formal structures of Angkor.

Our cycling will start at Sambor Preikuk Check Point.

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Koh Ker Cycling Hidden Trails

In detial: We'll visit many temples were lost in the jungle and Koh Ker was old the capital. This place not many tourists know.
Duration: 10 hours: All tour activities are flexible and can be customized to suit your preferences, ensuring a worry-free experience.
Koh Ker 1 x Meal: This tour includes lunch prepared by a local family.Your visit supports their income and helps children continue their study.
Easy & Backroad: We'll drive through local villages, where you'll experience everyday Cambodian life on the way to the temples.
Mountain Bike & Car: We'll start cycling on checkpoint in Koh Ker around 4 kimeters away from temple areas. Many temples are hidding.
Included : Speaking Tour Guide & Mountain Bike & Helmet & Cold Drinking Water & Pick Up & Drop Off
Pickup included

Sambor Preikuk Cycling Tour

In detials: You'll visit many temples were lost in jungle - this temple was oldest capital that you should spend more time to explore.
Duration: 11 hours: All tour activities are flexible and can be customized to suit your preferences, ensuring a worry-free experience.
Sambor Preikuk 1 x Meal
Easy & Backroad : We'll cylcing through local villages, where you'll experience everyday Cambodian life on the way to the temples.
Transport: Car or Mani Van with Air Condition - we'll start our cycling at Sambor Preikuk Checkpoint area.
Included : English Speaking Tour Guide & Mountain Bike & Helmet & Cold Drinking Water & Pick Up & Drop Off.
Pickup included

Beng Mealea Cycling Tour

In detail: You'll visit Beng Mealea, golden bridge, villages and other small temples are around Beng Mealea.
Duration: 10 hours: All tour activities are flexible and can be customized to suit your preferences, ensuring a worry-free experience.
Beng Mealea 1 x Meal: This tour includes lunch prepared by a local family.Your visit supports their income and helps children continue their study
Easy and Backroad: We'll riding bike to explore the secrets temples and village to visit the real lives experiences.
Mountain Bike & Car: We'll pick up from hotel to Beng Mealea by car and then we'll start ridding at Beng Mealea checkpoint.
Included: Speaking Tour Guide & Mountain Bike & Helmet & Cold Drinking Water & Pick Up & Drop Off.
Pickup included

Kulen Mountian Cycling Tour

In detials: You'll visit Waterfall,Reclining Buddha,100 Linga river,Ocean Rock,Elephant Pond,Thma Dab,Anlong Thum & Khting Slab temples.
Duration: 10 hours: All tour activities are flexible and can be customized to suit your preferences, ensuring a worry-free experience.
Kulen Mountain 1 x Meal: This tour includes lunch prepared by a local family.Your visit supports their income and helps children continue their study.
Easy & Backroads: We'll explore the unique of Kulen Mountain and templese group. Kulen was oldest capital since 8th to 9th centuries.
Mountain Bike & Car: We'll pick you up from hotel & drive to Kulen Mountain & we'll start our tour at check point on the top of Kulen mountian.
Included: Speaking Tour Guide & Mountain Bike & Helmet & Cold Drinking Water & Pick Up & Drop Off.
Pickup included

Angkor Cycling Hidden Trails

In detials: You'll visit main temples as Angkor Wat, South Gate of Byon, Bayon, Death of Gate, Chau Say Tevoda, Ta Nei & Ta Promh.
Duration: 8 hours: All tour activities are flexible and can be customized to suit your preferences, ensuring a worry-free experience.
Easy & Backroad: We'll drive through local villages, where you'll experience everyday Cambodian life on the way to the temples.
Mountain Bike & Car: We'll pick you up from hotel and drive you to old check point to our biking tour there.
Included: Speaking Tour Guide & Mountain Bike & Helmet & Cold Drinking Water & Pick Up & Drop Off.
Pickup included

What's included

  • Pick Up & Drop Off
  • Mountain Bike & Helmet
  • Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Cold Drinking Water
  • Our tour supports the local community by cooking local khmer style food.
  • English Speaking Tour Guide
  • Sambor Preikuk Pass

What to expect

  1. Sambor Prei Kuk
    2h · Admission ticket not included
    Sambor Prei Kuk is an archaeological site in Cambodia located in Kampong Thom Province, 30 km north of Kampong Thom, the provincial capital, 176 km east of Angkor and 206 km north of Phnom Penh and 176 km from Siem Reap City.

    Sambor Preikuk was the former capital called Chenla in 6th to 7th century and older then Angkor period. This complex is big areas as world heritage site . If you are there, you will feel difference experiences after visting Angkor National Park as you knewn Sambor Preikuk was the oldest one. Also you will visit many temples more than I listed as tripadvisor not recognized some templese located.
  2. Spean Praptos
    1h
    SPEAN PRABTOS is also known as Kampong Kdei Bridge on the National Road 6 from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh, used to be the longest corbeled stone-arch bridge in the world, with more than twenty narrow arches spanning 285 ft (87m). The bridge was built in the 12th century during the reign of King Jayavarman VII. It is one of the few Khmer empire era bridges to have survived to the modern day.
  3. Prasat Yeai Poeun
    1h
    Prasat Yeay Poan is composed of many brick and laterite temples; they are in the shape of either a rectangle or are octagonal with each decorated with different impressive carvings in the brick called a “Flying Palace”. This temple group is surrounded by an inner wall made of brick, and an outer wall made of laterite with entrance gates in the East and the West, and false gates on the South and North. Inscriptions have confirmed that the temple group was built in the reign of King Ishanavarman I who reigned from 616-637 AD.
  4. Prasat Tao
    1h
    Prasat Tao was built by Isanavarman I & Jayavarman in the 7th century and situated between Prasat Sambor and Prasat Yeay Poan , Prasat Tao is correspondingly referred to as the Central (or just C) group at Sambor Prei Kuk.The layout is similar to Yeay Poan with a laterite enclosing wall surrounding a large, central shrine and auxiliary towers with additional brick towers within an outer enclosure formed by a 2nd wall. In this case, the remains of 5 structures can be seen around the central tower with a further 8 in the outer section.
  5. Prasat Sambour ​ District
    1h
    PRASAT BOS REAM
    A curious site lying in the forest a short distance north of Prasat Sandan and consisting of 7 east-facing brick mounds aligned in a diagonal from NNE to SSW. There's little to be seen today, apart from earthen mounds covered in bushes, but the site must have originally been an impressive one. A man-made pond is situated to the north although no remains can be seen of any enclosing wall. It certainly seems unusual that out of the 7 presumed shrines, nothing at all remains today except a few courses of bricks.
  6. Sambor Prei Kuk
    30m
    Trapeang Ropeak Temple is a 7th-century pre-Angkorian octagonal brick shrine at Sambor Prei Kuk, notable for a large tree growing through its structure and for its unique, octagonal shape, which likely represents the Vimana Trivishtapa, or the flying palace of the god Indra. The temple is located to the northwest of temple Z and is surrounded by an environment that has been heavily reclaimed by nature.
  7. Sambor Prei Kuk
    30m
    Bos Ream Temple (also known as Tower N24 or Prasat Rong Chambak) is an unexcavated, rectangular brick temple at the Sambor Prei Kuk archaeological site, characterized by its unique tree-covered elevation and remnants of early Khmer architectural decorations. It is notable for its relative state of preservation compared to some other structures at the site, with visible decorations around the eaves and false doors.
  8. Sambor Prei Kuk
    30m
    Chrey Temple (Prasat Chrey) is a pre-Angkorian brick sanctuary at the Sambor Prei Kuk archaeological site that is famous for being almost entirely engulfed by the roots of a massive strangler fig tree. This temple, also designated N18, was once part of a larger complex but is now partially separated by a road. Its picturesque ruins are a popular photo spot, showcasing a beautiful but destructive interplay between nature and ancient architecture.
  9. Sambor Prei Kuk
    20m
    It is a small “cell” shrine, open to the east, around 3 m in height and width. It's made of sandstone featuring ornate pilasters/pillars also working as supports for the thin slabs of sandstone that make the walls and the roof slab.
  10. Sambor Prei Kuk
    30m
    Drum Chan Temple is a misinterpretation of a temple complex in Sambor Prei Kuk, a pre-Angkorian archaeological site in Cambodia from the 7th century. The name likely refers to the "Temple Zone" which includes clusters like Prasat Sambor (the main temple), Prasat Yeah Puon, and Prasat Boram. This UNESCO World Heritage Site features unique octagonal temples, and its architectural and artistic style, known as the Sambor Prei Kuk style, was a precursor to the Angkorian period.
  11. Sambor Prei Kuk
    30m
    Kbal Chrouk Temple, also known as Tower N20, is a ruined rectangular brick temple at Sambor Prei Kuk, notable for its ornate sandstone doorframe, a K. 439 inscription, and reliefs of "flying palaces". Built during the reigns of kings Bhavavarman II and Jayavarman I, it originally housed a golden linga and features unique decorative elements like pilasters and base decorations. The temple, which opens to the east, is part of a larger archaeological site recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Meeting and pickup

Pickup details

You may provide your hotel address after confirming your accommodation booking in Siem Reap City. On the day of your tour, please wait for us in the lobby of your hotel, where your guide and driver will meet you before departure around 15 minutes.

Additional information

  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Cancellation policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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