SIEM
REAP, is where you will stay during your visit to
Angkor. The area has been receiving foreign visitors to the
temples for over 100 years. The town is actually a cluster of old
villages, which originally developed around individual pagodas,
and later overlaid with an French colonial-era center. Note the
colonial and Chinese style architecture in the town center and
around the Old Market. Nowadays, Siem Reap offers a wide range of hotels, restaurants,
pubs and shops
including several upscale hotels and dozens of budget guesthouses.
Often missed are the many opportunities to experience traditional
Cambodia: ‘Apsara’
dance performances, craft shops and silk farms, road tours through
rice-paddy countryside, boat trips on the great Tonle Sap Lake to
fishing villages and bird sanctuary, and much more.
