The Grand Circuit Tour 1Day (Full Day)

After lunch in a local restaurant on site, we will visit Banteay Prei, a quiet temple with a sandstone gallery and an internal court including impressive trees and beautiful apsara carvings. Our next stop will be Prasat Neak Pean. It is a small temple with a collection of five ponds representing the paradisiacal Himalayan mountain-lake Anaavatapta from Hindu mythology. Then we will continue to Ta Som, it is a small temple of Bayon’s style.  A huge ficus tree grows from the top of the east gopura providing a dramatic example of nature and art entwined. We will still visit the East Mebon, a temple with five towers standing on small island in the middle of the artificial lake of the Easter Baray (7 km by 1.8 km), the East Mebon was formerly only accessible by boat. Today, the Baray, once a source of water for irrigation fed by the Siem Reap River, is dry and the temple stands now in a plain of rice fields. Our last stop will be the temple of Pre Rup. The East Mebon and Pre Rup were the last monuments in plaster and brick and so mark the end of a Khmer architectural epoch. The upper levels of the pyramid of Pre Rup offer a brilliant panoramic view of the surrounding countryside and are a popular spot to enjoy the sunset.