Trails

A trail is a guided tour of 6 to 12 KhmerConnection pages on one subject, read in a set order. Each trail opens with a short introduction and gives one sentence on what each stop adds.

Places to visit

• Angkor visitor routePlace trail · 10 stopsThe temples of Angkor in the order visitors walk them, from the town of Siem Reap out to the Tonle Sap.
• Beyond Angkor visitor routePlace trail · 7 stopsTemples and sacred sites beyond Angkor, in the order a traveler reaches them by road from Siem Reap.
• Capital to Angkor visitor routePlace trail · 6 stopsThe road from Phnom Penh to the temples of Angkor, by way of the old capital Oudong and the city of Battambang.
• Lake and rivers visitor routePlace trail · 6 stopsCambodia's great river and lake, from the Mekong up the Tonle Sap to the provinces on its western shore.
• Phnom Penh visitor routePlace trail · 8 stopsPhnom Penh from the meeting of its rivers to its palace, museum and temples, ending at two memorial sites.
• South coast visitor routePlace trail · 7 stopsThe south of Cambodia from the hills of Takeo down to the coast and the Cardamom Mountains.

Living memory

• Saturday dance classLiving memory trail · 9 stopsThe dance children learn on weekends abroad is the court dance of Angkor's carved apsaras, carried on by a few survivors.
• The kitchen tableLiving memory trail · 8 stopsKhmer cooking travels in pastes, ferments and family recipes, keeping knowledge that was nearly lost.
• The partyLiving memory trail · 8 stopsThe songs at a Cambodian party come from a few years in Phnom Penh before 1975, kept alive by copies and singing.

More trails

• The chapeiObject life trail · 7 stopsA two-string lute carved from one block of wood carries Khmer verse, jokes and Buddhist stories, and it came close to silence in the 1970s.
• What Jayavarman VII builtMaker trail · 7 stopsOne king of Angkor built for his parents, his city and the sick, and carried his temples out to the far frontier.