Angkor visitor route

Ten stops from the town to the lake. The route starts at Siem Reap, goes through Angkor Wat and the walled city of Angkor Thom to the temples of Jayavarman VII, then out to Banteay Srei and the older royal capital at Roluos, and ends on the Tonle Sap. Planning a visit? See Travel to Cambodia.

10 stops · Place trail

Start at stop 1: Siem ReapFollow in the Explorer

Illustration, as an impression, of Angkor Wat at dawn across its moat.

1. 1

   Siem Reap

   The city nearest the temples of Angkor, on a river that rises in the Kulen hills and ends in the Tonle Sap.

2. 2

   Angkor Wat

   Built in the 12th century for Vishnu by Suryavarman II, it became a center of Buddhist worship that monks kept up for centuries.

3. 3

   Angkor Thom

   The walled royal city Jayavarman VII built in the late 12th century; a laterite wall about 3 kilometers on each side encloses it.

4. 4

   Bayon

   Jayavarman VII built it around 1200 as the state temple of Angkor Thom, at the center of the city's plan of the universe.

5. 5

   Ta Prohm

   Founded in 1186 as a Buddhist monastery, it has been left much as it was found, with trees growing out of its ruins.

6. 6

   Banteay Kdei

   A Buddhist temple of Jayavarman VII's reign; in 2001 archaeologists dug up 274 statues buried in its grounds.

7. 7

   Preah Khan (Angkor)

   Built by Jayavarman VII in honor of his father; in 1191 a statue of Lokeshvara was consecrated in its central tower.

8. 8

   Banteay Srei

   A 10th-century Hindu temple of red sandstone consecrated in 967, built not by a king but by a royal teacher.

9. 9

   Hariharalaya

   A 9th-century Khmer royal capital at Roluos whose royal temples are Preah Ko, Bakong and Lolei.

10. 10

    Tonle Sap

    The great lake that swells in the flood; people live on its water in floating and stilt villages.

Also meets these trails

• Beyond Angkor visitor route
• Capital to Angkor visitor route
• Lake and rivers visitor route
• Saturday dance class