If your schedule allows, set aside a day or three to get out of the Siem Reap Town/main temple area and into the countryside. Within just a few kilometers of town the landscape turns to rice paddies, small towns and villages, offering an opportunity to get a look at ‘real Cambodia’ – the rural countryside where the vast majority of Cambodians live and work.
Some tour operators specialize in countryside and cultural tours and can help arrange a variety of trips – from a simple half day cultural tours of the nearby rural areas from the back of an air-conditioned car, to extensive multi-day motorcycle adventure tours of the countryside, distant temples and greater country tours outside of the Siem Reap area.
One of the more popular and easy ways to see a bit of countryside is to take a trip to one of the more distant temples such as Koh Ker, Beng Mealea, or Banteay Chhmar. Touring these temples, located well outside Siem Reap in jungled and rural areas, allows you not only to experience untouristed Angkorian temples but to get a glimpse of the Cambodian countryside on the trip there and back. A stop in a village, often to see some NGO or charity project, is often included as part of the distant temple tour.
The Adventure Story
Specializing in mountain bike tours. Angkor, distant temples, cultural and countryside, Tonle Sap lake, tailored tours.
#37 New Street A behind U-Care
Tel: 069-801705, 095-727290
www.theadventurestory.com
Beyond Unique Escapes
Complete tour service offering unique a wide variety of set and custom tours – day trips, cycling, trekking, walks, villages, small groups, private packages, cooking classes, ticket services. Siem Reap, Angkor and all Cambodia.
Kandal Village area, Siem Reap
Tel: Tel: 063-969269, 077-562565
www.beyonduniqueescapes.com
Build Friend Travel Cambodia
Specializing in village tours – half/full-day, monastery, cultural tours and experiences.
Tel: 012-940669
Cambodia Jeep
Explore Siem Reap, or all of Cambodia, in with a private driver or on your own in war-era American Jeep. Temples, countryside, or city. One day or a few weeks. Roadside assistance, mechanics, driver, and guide all available.
Siem Reap
Tel: 063-963242
www.cambodiajeep.com
Cambodia Trails
Specializing in dirt-bike tours and rental. Scooters also available. Dirt bike off-road tours, trail tours, jungle tours. Motorcycle repair.
#157 National Route 6, Siem Reap
Tel: 097-7355252
www.cambodiatrails.com
Dancing Roads
Since 2000. Mountain bike tours. Distant temples, countryside, mountains, tailored tours.
#66c St. 368, Phnom Penh
Tel: 012-884909, 095-72729
Hidden Cambodia Tours
Single and multi-day all-inclusive, high end, cultural, ad- venture and humanitarian tours by 4WD vehicles, dirt bike and car to Koh Ker, Preah Vihear, Preah Khan temples and historic KR area, Anlong Veng. Tonle Sap Lake tours.
Just off the road to Angkor Wat
Tel: 012-655201
hiddencambodia@yahoo.com
www.hiddencambodia.com
Kampoul Adventure Tour
Cultural and adventure tours. Tonle Sap Lake tours.
#0593 Wat Bo Road, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Tel: 063-760909, 063-965865
www.adventure.com.kh
Komnob Airboat Tours
Airboat tours. Skim across the Tonle Sap to visit floating and lake’s edge villages and a crocodile farm.
Tel: 012-926966, 016-988896
www.komnobairboattours.com
Nhum Bai
Experience the real Cambodia with a walking, cycling, or boating day trip, where you’ll have the chance to participate in everyday countryside life. Nhum Bai aims to help local villagers develop sustainable income through tourism while allowing visitors the chance to have an authentic, memorable Cambodian experience. On your tour you can try your hand at rice farming and weaving, learn about rice wine, or go on a leisurely boat trip and picnic with locals while enjoying the beauty of rural Siem Reap.
Tel: 097-6060770
www.nhumbai.com
Siem Reap Angkor Quad Bike Countryside Tour Co., Ltd
Quad Bike tours. One hours, multi-hour, half-day, full day, extreme tour overnighter. Countryside tours, rice paddies, pagodas, villages, more.
#169, Wat Damnak Road
Tel: 097-9651451, 012-324009
www.srquadbikeadventure.com
Terre Cambodge/Biking Cambodia
Mountain bike (TREK, GIANT) and trekking specialist. Overnights. Tonle Sap Lake boat tours (bird sanctuary, floating and stilted villages,) elephant trekking and more. Tailor made itineraries.
Svay Dangkum – Siem Reap
Tel: 092-476682, 089-990570
www.terrecambodge.com
www.bikingcambodia.net
Travel Loops
Inbound and outbound tours. Worldwide air tickets and tours. Daily bicycling tours in the countryside around Siem Reap for $20. Siem Reap homestays from $19/person.
Tel: Tel: 063-963776, 097-7776977
Fax: 063-965776
inquiry@travelloops.com
www.travelloops.com
Triple A Adventures
Floating village and Kampong Khleng tours. Bicycle tours.
Tel: 088-8366004
www.tripleacambodia.com
