CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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A 463 km round trip from Bakong - roughly 7 h 54 in the saddle. The stops in between: Koh Ker: Archaeological Site of Ancient Li, Temple of Preah Vihear and back through Koh Ker: Archaeological Site of Ancient Li. The line favours views over speed.
Roluos is where the story of Angkor begins. About thirteen kilometres south-east of Siem Reap, along the road toward Phnom Penh, a cluster of brick and sandstone temples marks Hariharalaya, the capital of the Khmer kings in the late ninth century. Before the great monuments of Angkor Wat and the Bayon were built, the rulers lived and built here, and the three main temples show the first mature forms of Khmer architecture. Preah Ko was dedicated in 879 by Indravarman I, and Bakong, a few years later, was the first great temple mountain, a stepped pyramid with elephants in stone at the corners, representing Mount Meru, the home of the gods.
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Roluos is where the day begins. Next is Koh Ker: Archaeological Site of Ancient Li.
For a few short decades in the tenth century, the capital of the Khmer empire was not at Angkor but here, deep in the forest of northern Cambodia. King Jayavarman IV established his court at Koh Ker, then called Lingapura, and in less than twenty years his builders raised dozens of temples across a wide area, before the capital returned to Angkor. The jungle took the city back. Today Koh Ker is a scatter of brick and sandstone sanctuaries among the trees, and in 2023 it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list.
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Koh Ker: Archaeological Site of Ancient Li comes up about 96 km into the recorded legs. Next is Temple of Preah Vihear.
The Temple of Preah Vihear is a Khmer sanctuary built on the lip of the Dângrêk escarpment, the long sandstone wall that separates the Cambodian plain from the Thai plateau. The temple itself is Cambodian, dedicated to Shiva, and its builders, working over several centuries from the ninth century onward, laid it out as a long axis climbing from the plain to the cliff edge instead of the usual compact tower on a square.
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about 232 km into the recorded legs you reach Temple of Preah Vihear. Next is back through Koh Ker: Archaeological Site of Ancient Li.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Koh Ker: Archaeological Site of Ancient Li write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Koh Ker: Archaeological Site of Ancient Li, late in the day. Next is Roluos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Roluos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Roluos. That is the ride.
Roluos → Koh Ker: Archaeological Site of Ancient Li is 96 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Koh Ker: Archaeological Site of Ancient Li → Temple of Preah Vihear is 136 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Temple of Preah Vihear → back through Koh Ker: Archaeological Site of Ancient Li is 135 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Koh Ker: Archaeological Site of Ancient Li → Roluos is 97 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.