Guided Countryside Cycling Tour with Snacks in Siem Reap

A half-day trip from Siem Reap that visits Krong Siem Reap and Siem Reap. The price covers hotel pick-up and drop-off, Polish tour guide and English-speaking guide. The countryside immediately around Siem Reap is rice paddy, sugar-palm trees and villages that are five minutes off the temple road and rarely seen by people doing the circuits. The sugar palm is the national tree and its sap is tapped from the crown by men who climb a notched pole twice a day, boiled down to the palm sugar used in every Khmer kitchen. The rice year sets everything: transplanting in the wet months, the fields green through the rains, harvest around November and December, then dry stubble and dust. Late afternoon is when the light works and when the villages are out, so most of these rides run to sunset. Priced per person at about $229 each, so a party of 8 comes to $1,831. The price you see on this page is the total for the party size you pick, not a per-head figure to multiply. Mad Monkey Siem Reap runs it. We book with them directly, so the guide who meets you works for the operator rather than for a reseller.