Best Outer Temples in Siem Reap
Worth the longer ride: pink-sandstone Banteay Srei and the jungle-swallowed Beng Mealea.
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Banteay Srei
Banteay Srei District4.6
The carving genuinely is the best in the empire. Go early morning when the pink stone glows and the tour buses haven’t arrived; the site is small enough to see well in an hour.
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Beng Mealea
Banteay Srei District4.7(2,562)
This is the Indiana Jones temple. Combine it with Koh Ker or the Kulen waterfalls for the best day trip out of Siem Reap.
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Banteay Samré
Angkor Archaeological Park4.7(1,295)
Angkor Wat’s architecture at a human scale, with almost nobody there. The walled inner court is a genuine hidden room in a park where privacy is otherwise extinct.