Siem Reap Travel Guide

A tasting-menu restaurant by chef Joannès Rivière built entirely around Cambodian ingredients and seasonal markets, widely regarded as the city's finest.

A refined Khmer restaurant run by a social enterprise supporting local youth, serving dishes like amok and lok lak in a garden setting.

A nonprofit training restaurant near Wat Damnak serving creative Cambodian dishes like red tree ant salad, staffed by disadvantaged youth in culinary training.

The buzzing tourist strip in the Old Market area lined with restaurants and stalls serving fish amok and Angkor beer.

Siem Reap's main nightlife strip near the Old Market, lined with bars, happy-hour deals, and a lively night market.

A 1920s Shanghai-themed cocktail bar just off Pub Street known for creative Asian-inspired cocktails.

The largest religious monument in the world, a 12th-century Hindu-Buddhist temple famed for its sunrise silhouette over the moat and detailed bas-relief galleries.

The last great capital of the Khmer Empire, centered on the Bayon temple with its 216 serene stone faces.

A jungle temple left largely unrestored, famous for enormous strangler fig and silk-cotton tree roots engulfing its stone corridors (featured in Tomb Raider).

A modern museum in town displaying over 1,000 Angkorian artifacts and statues, providing context before or after visiting the temples.

A significant Cambodian ancestor-honoring festival with offerings at pagodas across the country (falls in autumn, not summer).

A 'river of a thousand lingas' where riverbed carvings of Hindu deities lie beneath a jungle waterfall, a day trip north of Angkor.

A sacred mountain considered the birthplace of the Khmer Empire, with a waterfall, reclining Buddha carving, and river carvings.