Riding Cambodia as the middle leg of an Aussie SE Asia overland bicycle tour in 2026? The Tourist eVisa at $80 USD (~$122 AUD) all-in is the right product, your e-Arrival Card needs careful handling because there's no flight number, and the dry-season window from November to February is the only sensible time to ride. Here is the visa and ride-prep walkthrough.
The Tourist eVisa at $80 USD (~$122 AUD) all-in is the right product for Aussie cycle-tourers riding Cambodia as part of a SE Asia overland trip. It is single entry with a 30-day stay and 3 months validity from issue, Approved in 3 business days and Delivered as a printable PDF by email. Carry the printed PDF in a waterproof sleeve plus a digital copy on your phone, since Cambodian Immigration officers prefer the paper version at the desk. The 14-field e-Arrival Card is built for air arrivals, so cyclists arriving overland from Vietnam or Laos need a small workaround on the flight-number field — Aussie-timezone support handles the edit, with Free resubmission if Immigration flags a correction.
Cambodia has been one of the great middle legs on the Aussie SE Asia overland bicycle tour for the better part of two decades. A common route in 2026 still looks the same in shape — fly into Bangkok or Hanoi, ride a long loop through Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos, then fly home from the city you finish in. What has changed for 2026 is the entry mechanics: all 7 Thailand–Cambodia land borders have been closed since June 2025, so the cleanest pattern for Aussie riders is to fly into Cambodia from a Thai or Vietnamese stopover and ride out via a land crossing to Vietnam or Laos. The Tourist eVisa is still the right product, the cost is still $80 USD (~$122 AUD) all-in, and the riding itself is still one of the more rewarding cycle-tour legs in the region.
The two practical edges of this trip that catch Aussie cyclists out have nothing to do with the visa cost. The first is the e-Arrival Card, which is built for air arrivals and asks for a flight number — a problem for cyclists who plan to enter overland. The second is the dry-season window, which is genuinely narrow at four months and matters more for a loaded touring bike than for any other style of travel. Get those two right and the Cambodia leg is a comfortable 5-10 day ride between Phnom Penh and Siem Reap with optional side-trips, on quiet roads with friendly small-town hospitality.
This guide walks through the 2026 visa and e-Arrival logistics for Aussie cycle-tourers, the realistic entry and exit patterns now that Thailand land borders are closed, the dry-season window, and the practical kit a cyclist actually needs at the border. Read alongside the Cambodia Tourist eVisa walkthrough for Australians and the Cambodia visa edge cases guide for related scenarios. For the umbrella view across cost, processing time, and documents, see the apply for your Cambodia eVisa hub.
The Tourist eVisa is the right visa class for an Aussie cycle-tour through Cambodia. It is the same product issued to everyone else flying in for an Angkor temples holiday, but cyclists tend to lean harder on a few of its features. Single entry means the Cambodia leg is one continuous trip — once you exit by land to Vietnam or Laos, you cannot pop back into Cambodia without a fresh eVisa, so plan the route to make the most of the single 30-day window. The 30-day stay is generally enough for 800-1,200 km of riding with rest days, but if your loop is ambitious or you want a few days off the bike at Angkor, budget tightly.
Most Aussie cycle-tourers we work with apply for the Tourist eVisa 10-14 days before they expect to enter Cambodia. The 3-month validity window from issue is generous enough that you can apply early even if your exact entry date is still soft, and the 3 business days processing means you have a clear paper trail before you fly to your starting point. The Cambodia eVisa processing time guide and the Cambodia eVisa documents required guide cover the application side in more detail.
The 14-field e-Arrival Card was built around air arrivals and assumes every traveller has a flight number, a flight date, and an airline. For Aussie cyclists planning to enter Cambodia by land from Vietnam or Laos, this is the first practical friction point in the trip. The good news is that the 2026 reality has solved most of this on its own: with all 7 Thailand–Cambodia land borders closed since June 2025, almost every Aussie cycle-tourer now flies into Cambodia at the start of the Cambodia leg, rides the loop, and exits overland — so the flight number on the e-Arrival Card matches the actual air arrival into Phnom Penh or Siem Reap. The e-Arrival Card only covers entry, not exit, so the land-border exit at Bavet or Tropaeng Kreal does not need an e-Arrival of its own.
If your trip pattern still involves an overland entry — for example, you are riding the Vietnam loop first and crossing into Cambodia at Bavet — the e-Arrival Card workflow is slightly different. The flight-number field becomes the trip's first international flight number (your Sydney-to-Hanoi or Melbourne-to-Saigon flight that brought you into the region), the arrival date becomes the actual date you cross the Cambodia land border, and the arrival point becomes the land-border name. Aussie-timezone support handles this edit in our flow — submit your real plan in plain words and we map it to the 14 fields properly, with Free resubmission if Immigration flags a correction.
The fee is the same either way: $5 USD (~$7.50 AUD) per person, Checked end-to-end before it reaches Cambodian Immigration. The e-Arrival 14-fields walkthrough and the e-Arrival rejection fixes guide cover the standard flow and the most common correction patterns in detail.
With the Thailand land borders closed, the cleanest Cambodia legs for Aussie cycle-tourers in 2026 fall into three patterns. The Phnom Penh to Siem Reap independent ride is the classic — around 320 km on Route 6, mostly flat, with small-town accommodation every 60-100 km and dry firm pavement in the November to February window. The Phnom Penh to Bavet route runs around 160 km to the Vietnam border and connects cleanly into a Mekong Delta ride on the Vietnam side. The Siem Reap to Tropaeng Kreal route runs north-east for 350 km to the Laos border and is more remote, less trafficked, and reserved for cyclists comfortable with thin services and longer days.
Cambodia has three seasons that matter for cyclists. The dry season runs November to February with daytime temperatures in the high 20s, low humidity, dry firm roads, and the long sunny days that make touring genuinely pleasant. This is the only sensible window for a loaded cycle tour. The hot season runs March to May with temperatures reaching 38-42 degrees and brutal humidity even in the early morning — physically dangerous on a loaded bike and not recommended for any but the most experienced and acclimatised riders. The wet season runs June to October with daily heavy rain, flooded sections of road, and humidity that makes drying gear nearly impossible.
Aussie cycle-tourers we work with typically plan 60-100 km days on the Cambodia leg with one rest day per 5 ride days. Roads are mostly flat outside the northern hills, traffic is light away from Phnom Penh, and small-town accommodation in the 15-30 USD (~23-46 AUD) range is available in most towns of any size. Carry plenty of water — humidity stays high even in the dry season — and plan refuels at small roadside stalls every 30-40 km.
The Cambodia 7-day itinerary for Australians and the Cambodia 14-day itinerary for Australians cover the broader Cambodia trip-shape including the cities most cycle-tourers want to spend rest days in. The Bavet border crossing guide and the Tropaeng Kreal border crossing guide cover the two realistic overland exits in detail.
The Aussie cycle-tourer kit list at a Cambodian border post or airport is different from the general traveller list in a few practical ways. You arrive with the bike, you arrive sweaty, and you arrive with limited capacity to mess around with paperwork. A few touches up front make the desk faster.
This is the place where Aussie cycle-tourers most often get caught out. Standard short-trip travel insurance policies from CoverMore, Allianz, World Nomads, and NIB Travel cover normal tourism but routinely exclude or down-rate self-supported multi-day cycle touring. Read the product disclosure statement carefully and disclose the trip pattern at purchase. The activity-pack add-on most insurers sell typically covers organised cycle tours but not self-supported bike-packing — confirm in writing before you fly. Budget $250-400 AUD for a comprehensive 30-day policy with proper cycle-touring cover and a strong medical evacuation limit, which is essential on rural Cambodian roads where the nearest hospital with international standards is back in Phnom Penh or across the border in Bangkok.
The Cambodia first-trip planning checklist for Australians covers the broader pre-departure prep, and the Cambodia airports guide covers the inbound airport mechanics at KTI Phnom Penh and SAI Siem Reap where most cycle-tourers will arrive.
An Aussie cycle-tour through Cambodia in 2026 needs three things lined up: the Tourist eVisa at $80 USD (~$122 AUD) all-in, the e-Arrival Card handled cleanly even if the trip enters overland, and the dry-season window from November to February respected. Both visa products are Approved in 3 business days and Delivered as a printable PDF by email, with Aussie-timezone support and Free resubmission if Immigration flags a correction. Plan the route around the closed Thailand land borders, exit cleanly via Bavet or Tropaeng Kreal, and budget for a serious cycle-friendly travel-insurance policy. The Cambodia visa edge cases guide and the Cambodia first-trip planning checklist cover related scenarios in more detail, or apply now to start the 3-day clock.
Next steps and related reading for Australians: apply for your Cambodia eVisa when you are ready to lodge, bookmark our Cambodia visa hub for Australian citizens as the single canonical reference, skim the FAQ on Cambodia visa after approval for quick answers, and use our glossary of Cambodia visa terms to decode any acronym in this guide.
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カンボジア旅行が30日を超える場合、入国時に取得するビザがすべてを決定します。観光eVisa（タイプT）は30日間で硬く上限が決まっており、延長は一切できません。ビジネスeVisa（タイプE）は国内で延長できる唯一の種別で、1ヶ月、3ヶ月、6ヶ月、12ヶ月の延長が可能です。飛行前にアメリカ人が正しく選択するための方法をご紹介します。
カンボジア入国審査でカウンターに提出する3つのもの：米国パスポート、eVisa、eArrival QRコード。審査官が何をどの順序で見たいと思っているか、そしてKTIでの30秒の押印が横のデスクでの余計な手続きになる小さな不一致について説明します。
タイ・カンボジア間の陸路国境がまだすべて閉鎖されているため、バベットは現在ベトナムからカンボジアへの主要な陸上ルートとなっています。ホーチミン市から6時間、印刷したeVisa1枚、eArrival Cardなし—2026年に米国市民が実際どのように通過するかを説明します。
Every Aussie cyclist arriving in Cambodia by air needs their own 14-field e-Arrival Card within the 7-day window before flight. $5 USD (~$7.50 AUD), Checked end-to-end before it reaches Cambodian Immigration — and we handle the flight-number field cleanly even on overland legs.
