A day Trip Bengmelea Temple and Kampong Kleang Fishing Community

Overview

Private guide trip to Bengmelea, history of the temple is unknown and it can be dated only by its architectural style, identical to Angkor Wat, so scholars assumed, built reign of King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century. Smaller in size than Angkor Wat, ranks among the Khmer empire's larger temples: the gallery which forms the outer enclosure of the temple is 181 m by 152 m. It was the center of a town, surrounded by a moat 1025 m by 875 m large and 45 m wide. Afternoon explores to Kampong Khleang on the northern lake-edge about 55 km east of Siem Reap town, during the dry season are universally awestruck by the forest of stilted houses rising up to 10 meters in the air. In the wet season, the waters rise up to one or two meters of the buildings. Kompong Khleang is a permanent community within the flood plain of the Lake, with an economy based in fishing and is significantly larger with nearly 10 times the population of Kompong Pluk, making it the largest community on the Lake.