In a clearing of the tropical forest near the entrance to Ta Som, an 800-year-old temple at Angkor, in northwest Cambodia, two architects are having a friendly argument. For the umpteenth time ...

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 ...

Tourists watch the sunrise at the Angkor Wat temple in Siem Reap province, Cambodia. Short videos of visitors running down narrow stone pathways and vaulting over passageways – often overlayed ...

Paused in a jungle clearing in northwestern Cambodia ... or holy city, site of the famed temple Angkor Wat. But first there arose Phnom Kulen, the birthplace of the great Khmer civilization ...

You may feel like the hero of an adventure film, stumbling into a lost city in the jungle ... distinguishing it from both Angkor Wat and the 4,000 classical temples scattered across the country.

By the late 16th century, when Portuguese missionaries came upon the lotus-shaped towers of Angkor Wat—the most elaborate of the city's temples and the world's largest religious monument—the ...

Hue and Danang Angkor Wat is the best known, but there are more than 300 temples in the Siem Reap area, and more than 1,000 in Cambodia, many of them still entangled by the jungle. Many of the ...

Home to the jungle-swallowed ruins of the ninth ... parasols and draped in saffron-hued sarong. While Angkor Wat was originally a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu, Cambodia is now mainly Buddhist.

She visits the world's largest temple, Angkor Wat, and then travels to the Cambodian jungle to discover more about the roots of the Khmer Empire.

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 ...