Private Tour Beng Mealea Jungle Temple and Kompong Pluk Floating Village

Private Tour Beng Mealea Jungle Temple and Kompong Pluk Floating Village

On this unique tour you will visit the jungle temple of Beng Mealea, which was built in the same period as Angkor Wat. Beng Mealea temple stands about 40 kilometers from the main temples of Angkor. It was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1992. The temple is called jungle temple because for the most part it was left the way it was found: overgrown by trees. The tour also includes a visit to the floating village called Kompong Pluck. It is an interesting village of stilted houses and flooded mangrove forests. Kompong Phluk provides a very good insight into the village lifestyle of the Tonle Sap. This tour can be taken with or without tour guide. Please choose your preferred option when booking.

You drive by air-conditioned car from the town of Siem Reap through small rural villages and rice fields towards the jungle temple of Beng Mealea. This is about 70km from Siem Reap town and it will take private car a little bit more than 1 hour to get there. You will have until lunchtime to explore the temple complex. Then you can enjoy lunch at local restaurant that is nearby the temple complex and afterwards you drive by car to the boat that will take you to see the floating village. It is a lovely peaceful place to visit anytime of the year. You can see a traditional Cambodian lifestyle. This tour can be taken with or without tour guide. Please choose your preferred option when booking.