Siem Reap — Sights
5am, and Angkor rises out of the reflecting pool
- Angkor Wat (sunrise) — Five towers going pink over the pond at dawn
- Angkor Thom & the Bayon — A temple where stone faces smile from every side
- Ta Prohm — The jungle temple swallowed by tree roots
- Banteay Srei — A small pink-sandstone temple carved like lace
- Preah Khan — Doorway after doorway through a forest temple
- Ta Som & Neak Pean (Grand Circuit) — A tree-swallowed gate and a pool temple across the water
- Phnom Bakheng sunset — Sunset over the jungle from a hilltop temple
- Beng Mealea — A huge unrestored temple collapsing into the jungle
- Phnom Kulen — The mountain where the Khmer empire began, with a swimming waterfall
- Tonle Sap stilt villages (Kampong Phluk & Kampong Khleang) — Houses on ten-metre stilts, seen by boat
- Pub Street — Neon, 50-cent draught beer, every night
- Old Market (Psar Chas) — Souvenirs at the edges, a real food market inside
- Angkor Night Market area — Thatched-stall lanes of souvenirs after dark
- Phare, The Cambodian Circus — Young Cambodian artists telling stories through circus
- Angkor National Museum — Do your Angkor homework here first
- APOPO Visitor Center (HeroRATs) — 45 minutes with rats that sniff out landmines
- Cambodia Landmine Museum — A museum built by the man who dug the mines up
- Artisans Angkor (Stung Thmey workshop) — Watch carvers and silk painters at work
- Wat Preah Prom Rath — A working temple with a photogenic bridge
- Angkor Silk Farm — From mulberry leaf to loom, the silk route
- Lotus Farm (Samatoa) — Walkways through the lotus ponds
- Wat Bo — A neighbourhood wat with faded Reamker walls
- Banteay Kdei & Sra Srang — Mossy galleries and a bathing pond across the road
- Pre Rup — Red-brick temple mountain for sunset
- Kbal Spean (River of a Thousand Lingas) — A jungle walk ends at a riverbed carved with lingas
- War Museum Cambodia — Civil War tanks and weapons in the open air