Siem Reap is home to the world famous heritage of the Angkor temples including the magnificent Angkor Wat.It is a vibrant city with manymodern hotels and old colonial buildings boasting awesome architecture. Much of the town’s image, culture and traditions are conserved despite
the influx of tourists from all over the world.
There are restaurants of every culture and bars and cafes of nearly every fashion and size all about town. The Phsar Leu area is where one can find great bargains in jewellery and handicraft from precious stones to wonderful woodcarvings. There are also many shops ofering traditional massage and reflexology to help relieve those tired feet after a day’s tour of the temples.
Siem Reap Province is basically the cradle of Angkorean civilization and it is the province that offers
plenty of opportunities to tourists enthralled by the Khmer culture.
The ruins of Angkor, located amid forests and farmland, are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. There are over one thousand temples ranging in scale from nondescript piles of brick rubble scattered through rice fields to the magnificent Angkor Wat which is said to be the world’s largest single religious monument. There are dozens of temple ruins in the Siem Reap area. Listed on this map are just a few of the ‘must sees’. However, your temple itinerary depends largely on
how much time you have and of course your level of interest.
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