Angkor Wat Tour

Angkor Wat touring information, walking routes, times and costs for visiting Angkor Wat temple and the surrounding Angkor temples of the UNESCO World Heritage site near Siem Reap in northwestern Cambodia.

Touring Angkor Wat temple

The Basics
Angkor Wat Temple lies 6km north of Siem Reap by good road. It can be visited throughout the year between sunrise and sunset for the basic cost of an entrance ticket and local transportation. The temple is usually combined with visits to other nearby Angkor temples.

Timing and Crowd Avoidance.
As the world's largest religious monument and an architectural wonder Angkor Wat temple gets overun with coachloads of tourists at peak times. Most guidebooks and temple guides continue to follow an established route and timing of visit so concentrating the crowds into certain places at key times of the day. Our researchers will plan your visit to the temples quite differently over your stay for the optimum elements of lighting and crowd avoidance as determined by our research programs. Other organisations guess at the best routes and timing; we take the time to measure crowd flows, test itineraries and understand the best program for any given season.

If you want the very best experience of Angkor Wat either browse our example tours (top-right) or let us know your requirements. We will respond quickly to help you with a proposal.

Improve your visit with a Guide.
You will benefit greatly from using a guide to Angkor Wat, either a good guidebook such as Dawn Rooney's "Angkor" or better, a professional temple guide attached to a research program. These large temples in various states of ruin are beautiful but you will quickly tire unless you understand their purpose, significance and history.

Having spent so much time and money traveling to get this close you will transform your visit by using the right guide. ABOUTAsia's Centre of Guiding Research has suitable experienced guides benefiting from an extensive research program into routes, timing and crowd avoidance, nature and photography. ABOUTAsia guiding starts at around US$30 per day depending on language and itinerary.

Tours Beyond Angkor Wat

There is more to Siem Reap than Angkor Wat and more to Cambodia than Siem Reap. Historical and photogenic forest temples, lifestyles in the countryside, villages and fishing communities, the birdlife of the Tonle Sap lake and the mountains - we take the time to understand your interests and will produce an optimum tour itinerary to suit you.

ABOUTAsia is based in Siem Reap just 4km from Angkor Wat, and are are the acknowledged experts in guiding around the temples of Angkor Wat and Siem Reap. World class luxury travel brands such as Venice Simplon Orient Express trust only ABOUTAsia with their guests in Cambodia.