Temples, museums, memorials, markets and national parks - what each one is, how long it takes and what it costs to get in.
Cambodia's main attractions divide into the Angkor temples around Siem Reap, the Khmer Rouge memorial sites in Phnom Penh, the pre-Angkorian and cliff-top temples of the north, and the national parks, islands and river landscapes of the south and east. This index covers each one with its location, how long to allow and what a ticket costs where we have verified it.
September 2026
Angkor and the Khmer Empire sites beyond it - what each one is, how long it takes and when the light is right.
Banteay Kdei is a late 12th-century Buddhist monastery temple in the Angkor Archaeological Park, built by King Jayavarman VII in the Bayon style. It lies just…
Phnom Oudong (Udong) is a hill about 40 km north-west of Phnom Penh that was Cambodia's royal capital until 1866. Its summit holds royal stupas with…
Phnom Chhngok is a cave temple about 8 km north-east of Kampot. Inside a limestone hill stands a small 7th-century brick temple dedicated to Shiva, built…
The Roluos Group is a set of 9th-century temples about 12 km east of Siem Reap, at the site of Hariharalaya, the first capital of the…
Wat Banan is an 11th-century Angkorian temple on top of Phnom Banan, about 25 km south of Battambang. Reached by 358 steps, its five sandstone towers…
Angkor Wat is the largest religious monument in the world, built between 1113 and about 1150 by King Suryavarman II as a Hindu temple to Vishnu…
The Bayon is the state temple of King Jayavarman VII at the centre of Angkor Thom, built in the late 12th and early 13th century as…
Ta Prohm is a Buddhist temple and monastery at Angkor, founded in 1186 by King Jayavarman VII in honour of his mother. It was deliberately left…
Banteay Srei is a small Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva, consecrated in 967 and built by courtiers of King Rajendravarman II rather than by a king.…
Angkor Thom is the walled royal city built by King Jayavarman VII in the late 12th century, the last and largest capital of the Khmer Empire.…
Preah Khan is a large 12th-century temple just north-east of Angkor Thom, dedicated in 1191 by King Jayavarman VII to his father. It served as a…
Beng Mealea is a large Hindu temple built in the early 12th century, probably under Suryavarman II, about 40 km east of the main Angkor group…
Preah Vihear Temple is an 11th-century Khmer sanctuary to Shiva, built along an 800-metre axis on the Dangrek escarpment at Cambodia's border with Thailand, ending at…
Koh Ker is a 10th-century Khmer capital in Preah Vihear province, about 120 km from Siem Reap, where King Jayavarman IV ruled the empire from 928…
Sambor Prei Kuk is the site of Ishanapura, capital of the Chenla kingdom in the late 6th and early 7th centuries, about 30 km north of…
The sites that record the Khmer Rouge years. Difficult, essential, and best visited with someone who can explain what you are looking at.
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is the former S-21 prison in central Phnom Penh. A high school until 1975, it was turned by the Khmer Rouge…
Choeung Ek, about 17 km south of Phnom Penh, is the best known of the Khmer Rouge killing fields, where most prisoners from the S-21 prison…
Wat Thmey is an active Buddhist pagoda on the road from Siem Reap to Angkor Wat that was used by the Khmer Rouge as a place…
Where the sculpture, the silk and the story of the country are actually kept.
Theam's House, also called Theam's Gallery, is the home, studio and gallery of Cambodian artist Lim Muy Theam on the edge of Siem Reap. Set in…
The National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh holds the world's largest collection of Khmer art, more than 14,000 objects from prehistory to the post-Angkor period.…
The Angkor National Museum is a modern museum in Siem Reap, opened in 2007, that explains the Khmer Empire through eight themed galleries of sculpture, inscriptions…
The APOPO Visitor Centre in Siem Reap explains Cambodia's landmine legacy and introduces the HeroRATs, African giant pouched rats trained by the non-profit APOPO to detect…
The Royal Palace, the hilltop pagodas and the buildings that anchor a city walk.
The Battambang bamboo train, or norry, is a bamboo platform on steel wheels, driven by a small engine along railway tracks through the countryside. The original…
The Royal Palace in Phnom Penh is the official residence of the King of Cambodia, founded by King Norodom in 1866 on the riverfront. Visitors can…
Wat Phnom is a Buddhist temple on a 27-metre artificial hill in central Phnom Penh, and the place from which the city takes its name. Legend…
Bokor, Kulen, the Cardamoms and the waterfalls that are worth the drive in the right season.
BoTree Farm is a family-run organic Kampot pepper farm near Secret Lake, about 17 km from Kampot town on the road to Kep. It offers a…
Phnom Kulen National Park is a sacred sandstone plateau 48 km north-east of Siem Reap where Jayavarman II declared himself universal monarch in 802, the event…
Bokor National Park (Preah Monivong Bokor National Park) is a protected area of about 1,544 square kilometres above Kampot in southern Cambodia. Its sandstone plateau, about…
Phnom Sampeau is a limestone hill about 12 km south-west of Battambang, topped by the pagoda of Wat Phnom Sampeau. Its caves were used as execution…
Tatai waterfall is a wide, stepped waterfall on the Tatai river in Koh Kong province, about 20 km from Koh Kong town on National Road 48.…
Kampot pepper farms are plantations in the countryside between Kampot and Kep in southern Cambodia, where Kampot pepper, the country's first Geographical Indication product (2010) and…
Which places are genuine rescue and research operations, and how to tell.
Cambodia Wildlife Sanctuary is an elephant rescue and forest conservation project about 100 km north of Siem Reap, developed with the Save Elephant Foundation. It protects…
The Irrawaddy dolphins at Kampi are a critically endangered population of river dolphins living in a deep pool of the Mekong 15 km north of Kratie,…
The elephant projects in Mondulkiri are sanctuaries around Sen Monorom, in Cambodia's eastern highlands, where retired logging and riding elephants live in protected forest. At ethical,…
Central, Russian, Old and the night markets - what each is actually good for.
Phsar Leu is Sihanoukville's main market, a busy covered market on Makara Street in the town centre. It sells fresh seafood, fruit, vegetables, clothes and household…
The Central Market, or Phsar Thmei, is a domed Art Deco market hall in central Phnom Penh, designed by Jean Desbois and opened in 1937. Its…
The Russian Market, or Phsar Toul Tom Poung, is a large covered market in the south of Phnom Penh, named in the 1980s after the Soviet-bloc…
Pub Street is the pedestrianised bar and restaurant strip (officially Street 8) in Siem Reap's Old Market quarter, surrounded by several night markets including the Angkor…
The Mekong, the Tonle Sap and the southern coast, by season.
Koh Trong is a car-free island in the Mekong opposite Kratie town, reached by a short ferry. A roughly 9 km loop road passes stilt houses,…
The Tonle Sap floating villages are fishing communities of stilt houses and floating homes on the shores of the Tonle Sap, South-East Asia's largest freshwater lake,…
Koh Rong and Koh Rong Sanloem are two neighbouring islands about 25 km off Sihanoukville in the Gulf of Thailand, reached by fast ferry in 45…
The Kep crab market (Phsar Kdam) is a waterfront seafood market and row of stilted restaurants in Kep, a seaside town in Cambodia's smallest province, about…
Otres Beach is a three-kilometre crescent of pale sand about 4 km south of central Sihanoukville, reached in 10 to 15 minutes by tuk-tuk. It is…
Koh Dach, known as Silk Island, is a rural island in the Mekong roughly 15 km north-east of central Phnom Penh, famous for families who hand-weave…
Circus, Apsara dance and the artisan workshops you can walk through.
Phare, The Cambodian Circus is a contemporary circus in Siem Reap where young Cambodian artists combine acrobatics, theatre, dance and live music to tell Cambodian stories.…
Artisans Angkor is a Siem Reap social enterprise, founded as a vocational school in 1992, that trains young rural Cambodians in traditional Khmer crafts such as…
