Beng Mealea and Koh Ker Pyramid Tour with Airport Transfer in Siem Reap

A full-day experience in Siem Reap. The operator sums it up as visit the mysterious beng mealea jungle temple. The price covers Hotel pickup in Siem Reap, Private air-conditioned transportation and English-speaking driver. It does not cover beng mealea entrance ticket, koh ker entrance ticket and professional tour guide, so budget for those separately. Everything included is listed in full on this page; if something is not on that list, assume it is not in the price. Ta Prohm is the temple the French conservators deliberately left half-swallowed, so the silk-cotton and strangler fig roots still pour over its galleries, and it is the one every visitor recognises from Tomb Raider. It was built by Jayavarman VII in 1186 as a Buddhist monastery and university; an inscription records that it once supported more than 12,500 people, with another 80,000 in the villages that fed it. Wooden walkways now route visitors past the famous roots, which means the queue for the best-known tree can be long by mid-morning. Preah Khan, its larger companion to the north, gets a fraction of the crowds and is the better walk for anyone who wants the same atmosphere without the line. This one is priced for the group rather than per head: 1 traveller costs $215 and 8 costs $241, so the more of you there are the less each of you pays. Golden Escape Cambodia runs it. We book with them directly, so the guide who meets you works for the operator rather than for a reseller.