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As we walk through the outer gate, there they are: hundreds and thousands of tourists hang out on every ancient stone around, everyone swinging at least one camera, eagerly awaiting sunrise over Angkor Wat.

Delightful Cambodia – Angkor Wat & Siem Reap with Norah

Hans Meier - hansmeier [235]

In the pitch-black Cambodian night, our tuktuk approaches a lit-up, airport-like structure. "Are the temples now like that", I ask Norah? But it's only the Angkor Wat ticket terminal. Two...

Destinations: Siem Reap | Cambodia | Angkor
Topics: Culture | Food | Travel | People | Adventure | Traditions
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Trader Tots of Angkor Wat

Joshua Samuel Brown - jbrown [10,401]

Angkor Wat is home to hundreds of thousand-year old ruins; it’s also the stomping ground of about as many uncannily erudite ten-year olds, children who both speak passable English and can recite with...

Destinations: Siem Reap | Cambodia | Angkor
Topics: Economy | Travel | National Parks | Shopping | For Kids

Top 10 Things to Do in Siem Reap, Cambodia

Bee Yinn Low - bylow919 [192]

There is more than Angkor temples in Siem Reap. Apsara dances, floating villages, Khmer food, markets, old architecture, spas await you...

Destinations: Siem Reap | Cambodia
Topics: Travel

Cambodia

Hwee Min Liew - hmliew [436]

My first impression of Siem Reap was that it must be a traveller's dream; its airport has no jet-ways, conveyor belts and hardly a terminal to speak of. Its only fault is the government-imposed USD20...

Destinations: Siem Reap | Cambodia
Topics: Travel

Banteay Thom: Angkor's Mystery Temple

Donald Gilliland - dgilliland [4,036]

The day's task was simple: which of Angkor's more than one hundred temples should we visit? Our touring group consisted of six people - one American and five Khmers - and all had considerable...

Destinations: Siem Reap | Cambodia
Topics: Travel | Ancient History | Architecture

A Walk Through the Temples at Angkor

Chris Unno - ctunno [150]

For a truly wondrous experience, the adventurous traveler should visit Cambodia to see the temples at Angkor. Because of decades of civil war, most backpackers have skipped Cambodia and it is only in...

Destinations: Siem Reap | Cambodia
Topics: Travel | Ancient History | Architecture
The Long Walkway to Angkor Wat.

Immortal Sacred Angkor, Mortal Cash Cow

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,632]

In Angkor lies the hope of all Cambodia. Angkor is a symbol the past glory of the Khmer people; it is an engine of development and employment; it is even an informal classroom for young Cambodians,...

Destinations: Siem Reap | Cambodia
Topics: Travel | 20th Century History | War & Conflict
Apsara Dance, Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Cambodia Resurrecta

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,632]

The airport in Siem Reap, Cambodia is clean and orderly. Still, one expects Asia's usual throng of drivers, barking their desperate, much-practiced questions: "You need driver?" "You want guesthouse?"...

Destinations: Siem Reap | Cambodia
Topics: Travel | 20th Century History | War & Conflict

Angkor Wat from the Outside

Donald Gilliland - dgilliland [4,036]

Among the magnificent collection of ancient temples in Cambodia's sprawling Angkor complex, the most famous of the bunch is the jewel known as Angkor Wat. This much-photographed building, touted as...

Destinations: Siem Reap | Cambodia
Topics: Travel | Architecture
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