Moon Angkor Wat: Including Siem Reap & Phnom Penh (Moon Handbooks), by Tom Vater

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With advice you can trust and the unique perspective of writer and world traveler Tom Vater, Moon Angkor Wat has everything you need to know to have an unforgettable experience.From the unparalleled beauty of its temples to the bustling growth and culture of the nearby cities, Angkor Wat has it all. Explore Angkor Wat and its surroundings with confidence using Moon’s strategic itineraries and top activities, such as the best way to tour the Temples of Angkor, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, participate in community-supported tourism, and dig deep into Khmer art and history.With expertly crafted maps and gorgeous photos, this full-color guidebook gives you the tools you need to have an immersive and unique experience.Moon Angkor Wat includes areas such as:Siem ReapAngkor Wat and Angkor ThomAnteay ChhmarSambor Prei KukPreah Khan, Koh Ker, and Preah VihearBattambangPhnom PenhFind the Moon guide that best suits your trip!Extend your trip to some of Southeast Asia’s most awe-inspiring destinations with Moon Vietnam, Moon Taj Mahal and Moon Phuket & Ko Samui.

Moon Angkor Wat: Including Siem Reap & Phnom Penh (Moon Handbooks), by Tom Vater

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1044561 in Books
• Published on: 2015-09-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.40" h x .60" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Moon Angkor Wat: Including Siem Reap & Phnom Penh (Moon Handbooks), by Tom Vater

About the Author Tom Vater has been working and traveling in Southeast Asia since 1993. He first visited Cambodia in 2001 to document the indigenous minorities in Mondulkiri for the British Library’s International Sound Archive. He instantly fell in love with the country. A year later, Tom co-wrote and produced a documentary on Angkor for German-French television, which gave him the opportunity to spend several weeks among the temples. Since then, he has been back in Cambodia several times a year to cover the country’s politics and culture for many different publications. On his journeys around the country, he has traveled with kings, pilgrims, soldiers, secret agents, pirates, hippies, policemen, and prophets.Tom is the author of numerous nonfiction titles, guidebooks, and a novel, and has co-written several documentary screenplays for television and cinema. Tom’s feature articles, mostly on Asian subjects and destinations, have been published by the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the Times, Marie Claire, and many other publications. He is the Daily Telegraph’s Bangkok expert. His nonfiction book, Sacred Skin, published with award-winning photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat—who took many of the pictures in Moon Angkor Wat—was an international bestseller. Most recently he published Cambodia: A Journey Through the Land of the Khmer with renowned photographer Kraig Lieb. Tom is also the co-owner of the Hong Kong-based crime fiction imprint Crime Wave Press. Visit his website at tomvater.com.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. From Moon Angkor WatMost visitors to Cambodia come to see the temples of Angkor. Located in forests to the northwest of Tonlé Sap Lake, the sprawling ruins of the Angkor Empire are simply without equal in Southeast Asia. The interplay of forest and ruins gives the former Khmer capital its otherworldly, fantastical atmosphere. Even widely traveled and jaded culture hounds cannot help but be moved by the scale and sensuousness of these buildings.

• Angkor Wat: The greatest of great temples, Angkor Wat is a monumental dream in stone.
• Angkor Thom: Cambodia's last imperial city is surrounded by a three-kilometer wall and moat. At its center, the Bayon is a spectacular temple dominated by towers adorned with the enigmatic smiling faces of the bodhisattva.
• Ta Prohm: The forest-covered temple of Tomb Raider fame is the most romantic ruin in the Angkor Archaeological Park.
• Banteay Srei: This small 10th-century temple features some of the most exquisite carvings of the Khmer Empire.
• Beng Mealea: Away from the crowds and subsumed by forest, this remote temple offers visitors one of the most atmospheric experiences of any Khmer temple.

Siem Reap, the town nearest to the Angkor temples, has grown from a tiny village 100 years ago into Cambodia’s second-largest city. Some locals call it the unofficial capital, thanks to the millions of tourist dollars that have been rolling in since the late 1990s. Siem Reap translates as “Defeated Thailand,” a reference to the Khmer Empire when it controlled large swaths of Siam (today’s Thailand) for several centuries. Siem Reap really came into its own at the beginning of the 20th century, when the first wave of international tourists arrived. Le Grand Hotel d’Angkor opened in 1932, and tourism grew steadily until World War II. Following the war, Angkor became trendy once more and remained on the global tourist circuit until the late 1960s, when increasing turmoil in Cambodia and the neighboring war in Vietnam put an end to tourism. Today, after several decades of political unrest, Siem Reap is the safest city in the country and Cambodia’s boomtown. Here are some must-see highlights of this thriving, chaotic metropolis.

• The Old Market Area: Peruse a wide variety of souvenirs in Siem Reap's sprawling market and watch the locals shop from early morning to dusk.
• Wat Damnak: An active but quiet temple allows you to get away from the crowds and ruins for an idyllic afternoon stroll.
• Wat Athvea: Experience local village life at this small, virtually unknown temple ruin just outside Siem Reap.
• Apsara Dance: Catch a traditional Cambodian dance performance, once reserved for kings, at the Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor.
• Phare: The Cambodian Circus: View a breathtaking acrobatic circus performance at this exceptional and internationally renowned big top.

To delve deeper into Cambodia’s architectural heritage, explore wonderful stretches of the Cambodian countryside, or just get away from the tourist crowds around the main temples, it’s worth considering a number of rewarding excursions around Siem Reap—most of them within a day’s travel of the temple town.To learn more about Cambodia’s rise to Asian superpower, the temple complexes of Sambor Prei Kuk, which predates Angkor by several hundred years, along with Koh Ker and Banteay Chhmar should be of interest. The laid-back city of Battambang offers quiet colonial-era boulevards, possibly the best circus and arts center in Southeast Asia, a couple of spectacular hilltop temples, and trips through local villages where visitors can experience rural life in Southeast Asia that has mostly already disappeared from neighboring Thailand and Vietnam. Here are some suggestions for exploring beyond Angkor Wat and Siem Reap.

• Banteay Chhmar: One of the barely discovered gems of Angkor, this remote temple to the west of Siem Reap sees relatively few visitors.
• Sambor Prei Kuk: This collection of small temples, built in the 7th century, offers visitors a look at the architectural legacy of local Cambodian rulers who preceded the Angkor god-kings.
• Koh Ker: This royal capital features an impressive temple pyramid from the 10th century, surrounded by almost 100 smaller structures. It makes for a great combined trip with Beng Mealea.
• Bamboo Trains: Powered by water pump engines, these homemade wooden platform handcars race up and down dilapidated railway tracks to get local produce and people from their homes to the markets in Battambang.
• Phare Ponleu Selpak: Battambang's circus, the best in the region, is the bedrock of Cambodia's creative talent and has turned out countless students in the last decade.
• Wat Banan and Wat Phnom Sampeau: Two hilltop temples and the villages and rice paddies between make for a fantastic day trip through Cambodia's rural communities, whether on the back of a motorcycle, in a tuk-tuk, by bicycle, or on the Bamboo Train.

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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Perfect for our trip, very helpful! By Stef I am surprised this book doesn't have more reviews! This guide ended up being exactly what I needed for a three-week trip to Cambodia. It was useful and informative. I was happily surprised to find it is not just a guide book for Angkor, but a good book if you're going to see the cities of Siem Reap and Phnom Penh. The author also suggests several day trips and other places to visit while in country. I really enjoyed the sections containing comprehensive and readable (but not overwhelming) historical and cultural information. I would highly recommend this book to other visitors to Cambodia, especially if they are staying in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap...if you are going to be primarily in the countryside or on the coast this book won't have much for you. The maps are very useful, the pictures are beautiful, and the author clearly loves the subject matter. If you want exhaustive information on each and every temple in Angkor, this book is perhaps not the best fit for you. If you want to have a "local friend" who can tell you where to get some good amok, share how to beat the crowds at the park, show you around the Petit and Grand circuits, and fill you in on a little history so you have some context for understanding the Khmer people, this book is definitely for you.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Not bad, just not worth buying By Arlo Vortex I bought this before going to Angkor to help choose what temples to see and what had to be skipped in our 5 day trip. The temples took up less than half the book. Not being quite satisfied, I picked up "Ancient Angkor" by Michael Freeman, which was quite superior. We used it on all the 25 plus temples we explored. In the airport on our way out of town I saw "Focusing on the Angkor Temples" and am just buying that now for more study. Ancient Angkor will be satisfying and it's small enough that you can take it with you on the road.

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