How to choose the tour
Where you sleep the night before narrows the list faster than anything else. Five of the tours on this site collect you at your hotel in Siem Reap, one crosses from Bangkok over two days, and one runs out of Phnom Penh and back inside a single 15-hour day.
Sleeping in Siem Reap
Hotel pickup in Siem Reap is the starting point for the 8-hour sunrise or sunset tour, where the sunrise shape of the day begins between 4:15 AM and 4:30 AM, for the private 8-hour sunrise tour with its 180 minutes inside Angkor Wat, and for the 6-7 hour private day by tuk-tuk for one to three passengers or minivan from four upwards. Cyclists choose among the five cycling days, which run 6-7 hours to 10 hours, and photographers have the 8-10 hour private photography day with its 4:30 AM start.
Arriving from Bangkok or Phnom Penh
The 2-day tour from Bangkok is the comfortable option from Thailand: two days and one night, Angkor Wat, the Angkor Thom complex with the Bayon, Ta Prohm and a floating village on the Tonle Sap, with one night in a 4-star hotel and breakfast included. From the Cambodian capital, the 15-hour day trip covers 320 km each way by air-conditioned van, so roughly ten hours of it are spent on the road and the temple time is concentrated into Angkor Wat, the South Gate of Angkor Thom, the Bayon and Ta Prohm.
Language and guiding
Every tour listed here is led in English. The small-group day works with an English tour guide for the whole group, while the private sunrise tour, the private day tour and the photography day keep the guide to your party alone, which helps if you want long stops or a slower pace inside Angkor Wat. The cycling days use an English-speaking cycle guide and supply a bike and a helmet; the trip from Bangkok is run with a licensed tour guide, and the Phnom Penh day with an English-speaking Angkor guide and a traditional Khmer lunch.
Budget
Prices on this page start at $18 per adult for the 8-hour small-group sunrise or sunset day and at $35 per adult for the 30 km full-day temple ride. Private days are quoted per booking and therefore divide well between two to four travellers: $49 for the 6-7 hour private tour, $60 for the private sunrise tour, $105 for the photography day. The long-distance trips cost most, at $159 per adult from Phnom Penh and $350 per booking for the two days from Bangkok, hotel night included.
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