hey,
I got some friends visiting over water festival and they will do the Angkor inner circle on their own before I join them since I have seen it already. The plan was for them to do the inner circle on the first day, relax and maybe see the floating village on the second day and me joining them on the third day to see some of less crowded temples further away from the masses.
What are the best places to explore, do we need the official Angkor Pass to go there and is it best to ask a tuk tuk to get us there and explore on our own or are there any good tour guides that can take us there and who will actually have some interesting things to say about the sites and their history (we are willing to pay a good day rate to a good guide). What I want to avoid is getting a "guide" that only tells us "this is a very old temple build many hundred years ago. let's take a selfie...." and who has no actual idea of the history or stories that are associated to the place.
Cheers!
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Beng Mealea is great when its not crowded - its never been crowded when I have been there. You can ask the taxi to take a more scenic route through some villages on the way back. Quite a nice day trip really.
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Beng Mealea gets very busy after 9:00 am when the tour buses arrive. You could make a day tour of it and go to Beng Mealea first and then heat to Koh Ker which sees very few tourists. I would not go by Tuk-tuk though as it is a long haul, even though the road is very good these days.kansaicanuck wrote:Beng Mealea is great when its not crowded - its never been crowded when I have been there. You can ask the taxi to take a more scenic route through some villages on the way back. Quite a nice day trip really.
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