In a clearing of the tropical forest near the entrance to Ta Som, an 800-year-old temple at Angkor, in northwest Cambodia ... five miles north of Angkor Wat, the most awe inspiring and best ...

Calling Cambodia ... facts about Angkor Wat that will leave you speechless: Do you know that Angkor Wat, though considered a symbol of Buddhism today, was originally a Hindu temple?

They include the famous Temple of Angkor Wat and, at Angkor Thom, the Bayon Temple with its countless sculptural decorations. UNESCO has set up a wide-ranging programme to safeguard this symbolic site ...

This story appears in the July 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. From the air, the centuries-old temple appears and vanishes like a hallucination. At first it is no more than an umber ...

Cambodia's Angkor Wat Temple is the largest religious monument in the world and in normal times would be teeming with tourists throughout the year - but now it is deserted. Despite have very few ...

At 400 acres, Angkor Wat (“temple city” or “temple that is a city” in Khmer, the language of Cambodia) is considered the largest religious structure in the world. Yet despite its size ...

While Angkor Wat was originally a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu, Cambodia is now mainly Buddhist ... all charmingly packed in a leather-trimmed white canvas backpack (Nivath’s tip: don ...

SIEM REAP, Cambodia--Cambodia on Thursday inaugurated ... the country’s major tourist attraction, the centuries-old Angkor Wat temple complex in the northwestern province of Siem Reap.

The ancient Hindu-Buddhist temple of Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Jane Phare reflects on the highlights of a 16-day trip to Cambodia and Vietnam, including eight days drifting down the ...

Bigger than Greater Glasgow and decked in detailed bas-reliefs, the Unesco-venerated temples of Angkor in Cambodia’s second-largest city of Siem Reap are an outlier of sorts when it comes to ...