Day tours Kampong Kleang & Beng Melea temple Tours
Bengmelea Tours: We love to bring way out of Angkor Wat area, where you enjoy 4-6hours period spend Touring and driving. we bring pass rice paddy field, little road by little villages help you enjoy local and remote villages. You can see how locally live and work. let us know, if you wish to see both of scienary.!
Beng Mealea, its name means "lotus pond" is a temple in the Angkor Wat period 118-119 located 75 km east of the main group of temples at Angkor, Cambodia, on the ancient royal highway to Preah Khan Kompong Svay. Sprawling jungle temple covering over one square kilometer. The temple is largely overrun by vegetation and very lightly touristed, giving it an adventurous, ‘lost temple’ feel. Photographers: trees growing from the broken towers and galleries offer some of the best ‘tree in temple’ shots aside from Ta Prohm. Constructed in a distinctly Angkor Wat style under the same king that built Angkor Wat, Beng Melea preceded and may have served as a prototype of sorts for Angkor Wat. Though there are some lintel and doorway carvings, there are no bas-reliefs and the carvings are comparatively sparse.
- it was built during the reign of king Suryavarman II in the early 12th century. Smaller in size than Angkor Wat, the king's main monument, Beng Mealea nonetheless ranks among the Khmer empire's larger temples: the gallery which forms the outer enclosure of the temple is 181m by 152 m. It was the center of a town, surrounded by a moat 1025 m by 875 m large and 45 m wide.
Beng Mealea is oriented toward the east, but has entranceways from the other three cardinal directions. The basic layout is three enclosing galleries around a central sanctuary, collapsed at present. The enclosures are tied with "cruciform cloisters", like Angkor Wat. Structures known as libraries lie to the right and left of the avenue that leads in from the east. There is extensive carving of scenes from Hindu mythology, including the Churning of the Sea of Milk and Vishnu being borne by the bird god Garuda. Causeways have long balustrades formed by bodies of the seven-headed Naga serpent.
We are going to Have at local resturant nearest temple then, Afternoon, We will visit floating- tilted houses villages of Kampong located southeast of town on largest lake in southeast Asia. Learn bout fishing life and see activity in villages and school to Siem Reap hotel.