Welcome to Angkor Archaeological Park, home to Cambodia’s most iconic temples and ruins. In this video, we explore the ancient city of Angkor — walking through the grand entrance of Angkor Wat, ...
Today – technically the third day of our four-day Discovery Bicycle Tours Cambodia pre-tour in Siem Reap – is our first real bike ride, planned for 36 miles. We pick up our bikes at the tourist office ...
This video explores two of Cambodia’s most iconic temples — Angkor Wat and Ta Prohm — both timeless and hauntingly beautiful. Begin at sunrise as Angkor Wat’s towers rise against the early light, ...
The discovery of priceless artifacts in Laos sheds light on the ancient Khmer Empire. Angkor was the capital of the Khmer empire, which controlled much of the region between the 9th and 15th centuries ...
Many people who fled Cambodia in the 1970s, escaping the brutal genocide orchestrated by the Khmer Rouge, have never seen Angkor Wat — the temple complex that has been a constant in the Cambodian ...
The massive temple complex that is Cambodia’s Angkor Wat is famed as the world’s largest religious monument. Now, researchers have determined the city’s population at its zenith in the 13th century, ...
Commercial operations began Monday at Cambodia’s newest and biggest airport, designed to serve as an upgraded gateway to the country’s major tourist attraction, the centuries-old Angkor Wat temple ...
Crowds hug the reflective pools waiting for the morning sun to saturate the chiseled towers of Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument on earth. Then, after a day or so, they go. Angkor Wat, in the ...
Time is not kind to buildings—even the greatest ones like Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, England’s Roman Baths, and Greece’s Parthenon. But now we get a view into what experts believed seven marvelous ...
Accounts of mysterious and ancient ruins overgrown by Southeast Asian jungle first reached Europe by way of 16th century Portuguese missionaries. But it would be a 19th century French bug collector ...
The empire controlled much of mainland Southeast Asia by the beginning of the 10th century A.D., but unclear rules of succession combined with a complicated web of royal family intermarriages led to a ...