Angkor Wat Sunrise Exploration: Small Group Full-Day Tour from Siem Reap
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Siem Reap
Experience the breathtaking sunrise at Angkor Wat and explore the world's largest religious complex on this small group full-day tour. Avoid the crowds, meet locals, and capture stunning photos along the way.
Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Angkor Wat - Angkor Wat is the largest religious monument in the world. It was built in the 12th century. As the best-preserved temple at the site, it’s the only one to have remained a significant religious centre since its foundation. We will enter the great temple in darkness from the little-visited eastern side. We continue our journey on foot and creep through a jungle path to the North ancient library pool where we will wait for the Sun Rise. Listen to the explanations of your expert guide, then spend time venturing into the central chambers of the temple, where your local guide will reveal the history, myths and stories depicted on the stone bas-reliefs (the longest stretch of bas-reliefs carvings in the world) then you will venture deep into the central chambers of this truly great temple. Your knowledgeable guide will ensure that your visit to Angkor Wat leaves you with a rich understanding of the history and purpose of the great temple, and also of the mighty Angkorian civilization.
What's Included
  • Hotel pick-up and drop-off included for convenience
  • Stay hydrated with complimentary bottled water
  • Comfortable travel with in-vehicle air conditioning
  • Knowledgeable English-speaking guide throughout the tour
What's Not Included
  • Temple entrance ticket (USD37.00 per person which covers all temples in this day tour. Child is FOC)
Additional Information

Starting before dawn, we will enter Angkor Wat in darkness from the little-visited eastern side to watch Sun Rise. Angkor Wat is the world’s largest religious complex. Visit the South Gate of Angkor Thom, Bayon, covered in more than 200 enormous faces. Visit Baphuon, Vimeanakas, it’s located inside the walled enclosure of the Former Royal Palace of Khmer Empire. Then explore the famous Terrace of Elephant and the Terrace of the leper king. In the afternoon we visit the jungle-enveloped Ta Prohm (Tomb Raider temple).

  • Meet and talk to locals, see their daily lifestyles
  • Enjoy photo opportunities along the way and at the sites
  • Avoid the crowds and escape the heat
  • Your Tour Guide and Driver will stay with you for a whole day tour
  • Listen to professional guide explanations and share the experiences.
  • Your Tour Guide will send you a Link to purchase the temple entrance e-ticket days in advance.
  • To enter some temples, you have to wear clothes that cover your knees and shoulders.
  • Please wear flat shoes that are comfortable for walking.
  • It’s recommended that you take boxed breakfast from your hotel. So you have the opportunity to eat at a local cafe near Angkor Wat
Location
Angkor Wat
Sangkat Nokor Thum,
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Heathb76
Apr 14, 2024
Excellent tour with amazing guide. - Our guide was Sim and he was very knowledgeable about all of the temples and the history of Angkor. He also answered all of our questions and took us to the least crowded areas. Thank you Sim, for a lovely tour.
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Departure36171531639
Mar 31, 2024
Memorable tour of Angkor temples - We had a memorable tour. The guide and driver arrived at hotel lobby on time at 4:30 am. We were pleasantly surprised that it was a private tour as we had small group of 3 family members along with a air-conditioned car having ample chilled water bottles which was a relief on a sweltering day. We had purchased tickets online before hand. Moonlit Angkor wat temple at 5:30 am was a awesome sight. Our guide found us a comfortable to sit for an hour till Sun Rise at Angkor Wat. The temple compound was huge and explained in detail. We took 40 mins break for breakfast before going for next temple Ta Prohm. This was followed by Victoria Gate of Angkor Thom, Bayon temple and South Gate of Angkor Thom. We returned to hotel at 1 pm exhausted but satisfied. We were able to self pace our tour considering the hot day. Our guide was with us very step with detailed historical knowledge of every nook and corner. We are thankful to our guide and driver for a wonderful day. Highly recommended.
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Tracy_n
Mar 1, 2024
Great tour of a UNESCO site - with lots of good information and support from the Guide - Nice group - visiting early morning led by Mr Raj - very informative and breakfast stop was much appreciated. Water and cold towels provided in hot temperatures.
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163gj
Feb 11, 2024
A wonderful experience - Amazing place to visit. Our guide SEN was so knowledgeable & interesting. He answered all of our questions & was helpful throughout the tour. The temples are awe-inspiring & a sight not only worth seeing but learning about too. It was an amazing experience to see the sun rise over the temples. A truly spiritual place. Thank you SEN & thanks to our driver too, " James Bond"
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Calebm754
Feb 10, 2024
Highly recommended tour experience! - My traveling partner and I don't normally go in for guided tours. We normally prefer to explore by ourselves when travelling, so on our first day in Siem Reap we simply hired a driver and wandered by ourselves in each site, consulting guide books and phones. The Angkor Wat area is so huge, though, that we decided to try hiring a guide for the following day. We are so glad we were able to land Mr. Sim! Being guided by him made our experience so much better. We really appreciated having confidence that we were getting to see the most significant parts of each site, and could trust Mr. Sim's expertise on what parts of Angkor Wat's huge structure we could skip. He also provided historical context, art-historical detail, and answered our questions about the things we were seeing and also life in Cambodia today. Since we had already seen a few of the temples before, we were able to personalize our itinerary in consultation with him and see lesser visited temples, which were great! It was neat to walk around in much quieter places and see the architectural echoes with the main attractions we had just visited. Other reviewers have praised the value for money of the tour, and I heartily concur with that. We were ready to be dropped off back at our hotel after about nine hours of touring, and Mr. Sim would have happily shown us more sights yet! The driver he hired to take us around did a nice job, too, and we were grateful for the cold water provided. It gets hot out there! All in all, I heartily recommend the experience--we're really glad we made the choice we did!
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Sudeepthagrama
Dec 31, 2023
Knowledgeable guide, great experience! - Mr Sim was a very knowledgeable guide. Not only did we learn a lot about the temples and the places we visited but also a lot about the culture and much more. He also knew the best times to visit certain places so we avoided the crowds as much as we could and got to spend time soaking in the carvings, exploring the ruins and getting some great photos as well. The early start was a little daunting but well worth it as Mr Sim found us a great spot to enjoy watching the sun rise over the spires. Post the sunrise tour, Mr. Sim also sent us a list of the temples we visited for our reference and a whole bunch of other things we can do in Siem Reap!
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Lorsim
Jul 6, 2023
Great tour with a great guide. - We had a fantastic tour with Sim. He met us at our hotel at 4.30am as scheduled & in complete darkness we entered the Angkor Wat site on the East side. After a long walk across to the West side he found us the perfect place from which to watch the sunrise, slightly elevated on a slope so that the crowds gathered below the water did not block our view. Sadly mother nature did not oblige & on the day of our visit there was no sunrise due to the cloud cover. We managed to get one small blob of pink in one of our photos. Just the luck of the draw. Sim then guided us all around the Angkor Wat site, & we also had a look at the Ta Prohm Temple. We drove around the perimeter of the stunning Bayon Temple area (our choice as we were a bit foot-sore & the heat was getting to us). As we were all "Templed out" by this stage, he switched going to more Temple ruins & instead drove around to show us some places of interest in Siem Reap so we could potentially go back to them. We did stop at the Artisan craft village where a guide showed us around explaining the various crafting processes. Sim was a great guide.
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Rentric
Mar 30, 2023
Happy & satisfied - Sim my tour guide was the best his English I could understand very well he had so much useful information about the Temples just the right amount. He was nice & early which I love. I would definitely go with Sim again for any of my tours
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Leanj2023
Jan 4, 2023
A great day with my Tour Guide - Outstanding. Sim has a deep knowledge of the area and a great sense of humour. Extremely friendly. The driver was very friendly. Both guide and driver looked after so well. thankyou.
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Briankk7610ar
Dec 29, 2022
Amazing Experience - Beautiful Sunrise at Angkor Wat. Excellent English speaking guide and good driver and we will come back again with Journey2Angkor.
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