Siem Reap, the Beating Heart Between Angkor Wat and Tonle Sa, Siem Reap, Cambodia
I鈥檝e been feeling聽the need to write about Siem Reap for some time now, but finding the words to describe my emotions without falling into banality is not easy and then聽I postpone it,聽but maybeSiem Reap is trivially extraordinary and unique and it is useless to look for other terms to define it.
I stayed there five days, at the end of a Cambodian journey that left me fascinated by the beauty of what I saw, but unnerved by the chaos, filth, corruption and contradictions. Upon my arrival in聽town I was tired and not really well disposed, but even like this I聽was enchanted and years later I would go back to enjoy it quietly, without the chock聽in front of the immensity of the site.
This town on the banks of the Tonle Sap, whose name means 鈥淪iam defeated鈥�, has become in recent years the tourist capital of Cambodia, of course thanks to the聽short distance from the fabled Angkor temples, declared in 1992 a UNESCO World Heritage Site .
The town is very quiet and clean compared to the rest of the country and the tourist standards got聽rapidly westernized with the opening of mega hotels and shopping centers that open as quickly as聽pop-up windows beside traditional guesthouse and craft markets, which actually sell also many odds and ends, it must be said. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).
I stayed there five days, at the end of a Cambodian journey that left me fascinated by the beauty of what I saw, but unnerved by the chaos, filth, corruption and contradictions. Upon my arrival in聽town I was tired and not really well disposed, but even like this I聽was enchanted and years later I would go back to enjoy it quietly, without the chock聽in front of the immensity of the site.
This town on the banks of the Tonle Sap, whose name means 鈥淪iam defeated鈥�, has become in recent years the tourist capital of Cambodia, of course thanks to the聽short distance from the fabled Angkor temples, declared in 1992 a UNESCO World Heritage Site .
The town is very quiet and clean compared to the rest of the country and the tourist standards got聽rapidly westernized with the opening of mega hotels and shopping centers that open as quickly as聽pop-up windows beside traditional guesthouse and craft markets, which actually sell also many odds and ends, it must be said. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).
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Guide Name: Siem Reap, the Beating Heart Between Angkor Wat and Tonle Sa
Guide Location: Cambodia » Siem Reap
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Author: Silvia Moggia
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Guide Location: Cambodia » Siem Reap
Guide Type: Self-guided Walking Tour (Article (B))
Author: Silvia Moggia
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Sight(s) Featured in This Guide:
- National Museum
- Angkor Archaeological Park
- Angkor Thom
- Ta Prohm
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