Start from 41 curated places around Siem Reap, KH, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Cuisine Wat Damnak
The reference point for serious Cambodian cooking in Siem Reap, set in a wooden house in Wat Damnak village and running a rotating tasting menu built entirely on ingredients sourced from farms and villages around the province. The menu flips every two weeks and is the most rigorous expression of what modern Khmer cuisine can be.
JOMNO - Modern Khmer Cuisine
A contemporary Khmer restaurant on Wat Damnak Market Street with a menu that weaves Western technique into traditional Cambodian recipes and seasonal produce, earning a strong local following well beyond the tourist circuit. Plates are beautifully constructed without feeling overwrought.
Trails & outdoors
Angkor Wat Loop
A 3.8 km easy loop around the outer galleries and moat of Angkor Wat itself, the single most accessible walk in the entire park and still one of the most striking because the temple changes light and perspective with every approach angle. Best done at sunrise or the late-afternoon hour before closing.
Angkor Small Circuit - Angkor Wat, Bayon, Ta Prohm
The classic 18-km temple circuit linking Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom and the Bayon, Ta Prohm, and several smaller monuments in a continuous loop through the forested archaeological park. Walk sections and tuk-tuk others, or attempt the full route on bicycle for the most immersive experience.
Things to do
Phare, The Cambodian Circus
A high-energy evening circus show combining acrobatics, theater, live music, and storytelling to bring Cambodian folk tales and recent history to life, performed by graduates of the Phare Ponleu Selpak arts school in Battambang. The most consistently praised thing to do after dark in Siem Reap and genuinely unlike any other circus show in Southeast Asia.
Angkor Village Apsara Theatre
Siem Reap's longest-running traditional Apsara dance venue in the Wat Bo neighborhood, presenting five types of classical Khmer dance in a purpose-built timber theater with an optional traditional Khmer dinner. The only dedicated indoor space in town that treats the 12th-century dance form as a serious performance rather than a dinner sideshow.
Landmarks & sights
Angkor Wat
The world's largest religious monument, a 12th-century Khmer masterpiece of towers, moats, and intricate bas-reliefs stretching nearly a kilometer across. The western approach at sunrise, when the towers reflect in the outer moat, is the single most recognizable image in Southeast Asia.
Bayon
The state temple of Jayavarman VII, set at the heart of the walled city of Angkor Thom, studded with 54 towers each carved with giant, serenely smiling stone faces on all four sides. The sheer density of faces makes it one of the stranger and more hypnotic places in the entire Angkor complex.