About 77 km from Siem Reap by road, tourists can visit just another Ankgor Wat style temple, Beng Mealea. Yet unrestored, the ruin is worth to visit as the road is more accessible a couple years ago.
On the third day, we wanted to get off the tourist trail a bit and asked about some ruins called Beng Mealea that are about 2 hours outside of Siem Reap. Wei told that he had never driven a tuk-tuk there, but he would do it for us…
The Beng Mealea ruins have only been open to tourists since about 2001 because of land mines. The attraction is that they are mostly untouched- viewed in the condition that nature left them for some 800 years. Like most things in Angkor- an incredible sight.
