1-Day Angkor Wat Sunrise Tour & Temple Exploration | Cambodia

Today depart at 4.30 AM from your hotel. Angkor Wat is the largest religious monument in the entire world! An architectural masterpiece of Khmer brilliance; this temple is in perfect alignment to the cardinal points, is a marvel in engineering, is mysterious to all who witness and is arguably the finest monument on earth!
The equinox sunrise appears behind the towers of Angkor Wat. This world famous temple is the number 1 spot in all of Siem Reap to experience a spectacular sunrise. I propose to take you early in the morning where we will position ourselves in front of the reflection pool and with any luck the colors of the sky will set off the temple and we can capture the most iconic site at the most optimal time. After sunrise I can guide you through the main building and around the complex. I guarantee you will be blown away! After this we whisk you off to your hotel for breakfast. After breakfast I can show you the Angkor kingdom to your heart’s content-Let’s explore!

After your refreshment we will continue to visit Beng Mealea jungle temple. To experience how nature destroys the Heritage Sites. It’s a stunning tour to avoid the crowds and the best experience for the original ruins. Beng Mealea temple is located in the north east of Siem Reap city, it is untouched by the restoration and still living inside dense forest. Its original ruins are the keys to attract tourists. It was built by two Khmer Kings, first King Suriyavarman II and completed by King Dharanindravarman II. Beng Mealea temple is famous for the Indiana Jones Movie.

Chau Srei Vibol temple is a remote Hindu temple that is located in the main villages of the local people. Only a few tourists know about it! But it is worth a visit. This temple is located east of Siem Reap city and on the ancient road from Angkor to Beng Mealea temple, it was originally built by King Suryavarman II to dedicate to Hindu Gods, it is a sandstone temple with a beautiful landscape of pool and modern Buddhist temple. There are lots of mysterious stories beyond the scenes!

Rolous is a name for the local community in Bakong District, Siem Reap, Cambodia. Rolous is the name of a rainforest tree, it's a thorny tree. Now For Tourism, Rolous is the group of Angkor temples, it was the second largest capital city of Khmer Empire(805-905) A.D. It's adopted by many ruins but the major temples for tourists to visit and explore are Lolei Preah Ko and Bakong Temple. They are all fine and impressive!

Bakong is the first Khmer temple mountain of sandstone constructed by rulers of the Khmer Empire at Angkor, Cambodia. In the final decades of the 9th century AD, it served as the official state temple of King Indravarman I in the ancient city of Hariharalaya, located in an area that today is called Roluos.
In 802 AD, the first king of Angkor Jayavarman II declared the sovereignty of Cambodia. After ups and downs, he established his capital at Hariharalaya. A few decades later, his successors constructed Bakong in stages as the first temple mountain of sandstone at Angkor. The inscription on its stele (classified K.826) says that in 881 King Indravarman I dedicated the temple to the god Shiva and consecrated its central religious image, a lingam whose name Sri Indresvara was a combination of the king's own and the suffix "-esvara" which stood for Shiva ("Iśvara"). According to George Coedès, the devarāja cult consisted in the idea of divine kingship as a legitimacy of royal power.

Lolei is the northernmost temple of the Roluos group of three late 9th century Hindu temples at Angkor, Cambodia, the other members of which are Preah Ko and the Bakong. Lolei was the last of the three temples to be built as part of the city of Hariharalaya that once flourished at Roluos, and in 893 the Khmer king Yasovarman I dedicated it to Shiva and to members of the royal family. The name "Lolei" is thought to be a modern corruption of the ancient name "Hariharalaya, which means "the city of Harihara." Once an island temple, Lolei was located on an island slightly north of center in the now dry Indratataka baray,construction of which had nearly been completed under Yasovarman's father and predecessor Indravarman I. Scholars believe that placing the temple on an island in the middle of a body of water served to identify it symbolically with Mount Meru, home of the gods, which in Hindu mythology is surrounded by the world oceans. Then transfer you back to your hotel in Siem Reap.

Preah Ko means "The Sacred Bull" was the first temple to be built in the ancient and now defunct city of Hariharalaya (in the area that today is called Roluos), some 15 kilometers south-east of the main group of temples at Angkor, Cambodia. The temple was built under the Khmer King Indravarman I in 879 to honor members of the king's family, whom it places in relation with the Hindu deity Shiva.
After the Khmer king Jayavarman II founded the Khmer Empire in 802 A.D. He finally established his capital at Hariharalaya, where he died. Indravarman I was the nephew of Jayavarman II. When he ascended to the throne, he ordered the construction first of Preah Ko, which was dedicated in 879, and later of the temple-mountain known as the Bakong. It is likely that this building program was made possible by the king's peaceful reign and his ability to draw income from the expanding Empire. A restoration of the towers took place in the early 1990s, financed by the German government.