Angkor temples at sunrise. Here is when to go, what a day costs on site and what to see, then Okela composes your itinerary hour by hour.

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When to visit Siem Reap

Best months: January, February, March, November and December.

What to see in Siem Reap

1. Angkor Wat
   Angkor Wat is the best-preserved temple of the Angkor complex, and one of the few that has remained a living place of worship since its foundation.
2. Bayon (Angkor Thom)
   The Bayon, at the heart of Angkor Thom, is a Buddhist temple from the reign of Jayavarman VII, known for its towers carved with large smiling faces.
3. Ta Prohm
   Ta Prohm is an Angkor temple the forest never let go of: silk-cotton and strangler fig roots coil around sandstone galleries and towers.
4. Banteay Srei
   Far from the sheer scale of Angkor's great temples, Banteay Srei wins you over with its small size and the delicacy of its carvings, cut into pink sandstone that shifts in colour with the light.
5. Pub Street & marché de nuit
   This is the nightlife heart of Siem Reap, where the lanes light up after sunset and travelers and locals gather at the end of a day at Angkor.
6. Musée national d'Angkor
   The museum gives context to what you will see at the temples afterwards: who built them, which gods they honoured, and how life worked in the Khmer Empire between the 9th and 14th centuries.
7. Tonlé Sap (village flottant)
   On the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, families live, work and go to school on the water, adapting to the yearly floods.
8. Phare, le cirque cambodgien
   Phare is a contemporary circus that grew out of a Battambang association training young Cambodian artists, and each show tells a story rooted in the country.

A sample itinerary for Siem Reap, three days

Composed by Okela from the places in its database, with times. Yours takes your dates, pace and group into account.

Budget

Expect about €46 per person per day on site (accommodation, meals, transport and visits), depending on the comfort you choose. Okela shows the price of every step of your itinerary.

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