Phnom Kulen Waterfall and River of Lingas Jeep Tour

Ride an old military jeep up Phnom Kulen, hike to Kbal Spean's River of a Thousand Lingas, and cool off at the waterfall, on a full day trip from Siem Reap with picnic lunch included. Head out from Siem Reap aboard a restored military jeep for the winding, roughly 50 kilometre ride up Phnom Kulen, the mountain where King Jayavarman II founded his capital of Mahendraparvata in 802 AD. At Kbal Spean, known as the River of a Thousand Lingas for the carvings cut into its riverbed, hike uphill through the jungle past sandstone reliefs of Hindu deities including Shiva and Vishnu, reclining on the Naga Ananda. A wooden staircase leads down to the boulders below the waterfall, where a swim is possible when conditions allow. A picnic lunch is served near the mountain, surrounded by the thousands of carved lingams that once covered this sandstone plateau. An adventurous day that combines Cambodia's pre-Angkorian history with a genuinely different way to travel.