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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...