From Siem Reap: Jeep Tour to Beng Mealea and Kompong Khleang

A full-day experience in Siem Reap. The operator sums it up as traverse along rugged dirt tracks on an adventure in a vintage jeep. The price covers Jeep with experienced driver, Pickup and drop off at your hotel in Siem Reap and Guide. It does not cover angkor temple pass ($37usd per person), personal expenses and extra drinks, 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. The price steps with party size rather than multiplying: 1 traveller is $433, 5 is $923 and 8 is $1,352. You are quoted the total for your party, not a per-head rate. Cambodian Travel Partner runs it. We book with them directly, so the guide who meets you works for the operator rather than for a reseller.