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Angkor Wat holidays

August 2016

  • Cambodia, Siem Reap, Temple of Angkor Wat

    Lost cities
    Lost cities #7: how Nasa technology uncovered the 'megacity' of Angkor

    Recent laser surveys have revealed traces of a vast urban settlement, comparable in size to Los Angeles, around the temples of Angkor in the Cambodian jungle. The ancient Khmer capital was never lost … it just got a bit overgrown

November 2015

  • A Germain’s silver langur takes a snack break after being released in Angkor Wat last December by Wildlife Alliance.

    Radical Conservation
    Wild things return to Angkor Wat

    Decades after poachers stripped the forests surrounding Angkor Wat of large mammals, an innovative conservation group is bringing them back. Already, Wildlife Alliance has rewilded the forest with gibbons and langurs. And more are coming.

January 2015

  • Angkor Wat.

    Urban decay
    What the collapse of ancient capitals can teach us about the cities of today

    Warnings from history: Angkor was a thriving metropolis of 750,000 before a series of mega-monsoons made it unliveable. Can modern flood-threatened cities learn from its downfall?

September 2014

  • Cambodia, Phnom Penh Night Market

    Travel writing competition 2013
    A food tour of Cambodia: readers’ travel writing competition

    Olivia Swann won the culture category. Here, she takes a rather challenging food tour of Phnom Penh and Siem Reap in Cambodia

June 2013

  • Pre Rup temple at Angkor, Cambodia

    Cambodia's vast lost city: world's greatest pre-industrial site unearthed

  • Angkor Wat

    Laser technology reveals lost city around Angkor Wat

March 2012

  • Angkor Wat, Cambodia

    Angkor Wat temple replica to rise on banks of the Ganges

    For Hindus who can't visit Cambodian world heritage site, retired Indian cop is building a copy in Bihar dedicated to the deity Ram

November 2010

  • The 'Angelina Jolie Temple'

    Holy Jolie: Cambodian temple takes Angelina's name

    Hindu leader says locals now call 12th-century site the 'Angelina Jolie Temple' following 2000 shooting of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

October 2010

  • Grand Canyon, Colorado, US

    Travel Awards 2010
    The world's greatest attractions

    Old favourites, new thrills ... in the Guardian Travel Awards you voted for the top 10 must-sees across the globe. Here we reveal new ways to experience them

September 2010

  • angkor wat

    Private water raiding threatens Angkor's temples built on sand

  • Children in Siem Reap hunt for butterflies

    Angkor butterfly hunters tell of poverty amid tourist wealth

August 2010

  • angkor temples antiquities theft

    Cambodia's Khmer heritage threatened by looting of archeological sites

    Angkor temples among threatened Cambodian sites highlighted by the International Council of Museums

October 2008

  • The Inca city of Machu Picchu in Cuzco, Peru

    Five best... tours of iconic sites

    Discover Machu Picchu - the winning overseas tourist attraction in our Readers' Awards 2008 - plus four runners up

March 2007

  • Seven alternative wonders of the world

    From Stonehenge to the Great Wall of China this week’s seven alternative wonders are all stunning feats of human achievement often set in some of the most remote parts of the world. Use the arrows to the right to navigate the photographs

February 2007

  • Tourist invasion threatens to ruin glories of Angkor Wat

    It has survived the collapse of the sophisticated civilisation that built it, centuries of consumption by the suffocating jungle and the nihilism of the Khmer Rouge, who beheaded its stone Buddhas and used its walls for target practice.

October 2006

  • Cambodia: essential Information

    Cambodia is home to an enviable combination of ancient culture and exotic landscapes.

April 2005

  • Are we loving our heritage to death?

  • Orienteering

January 2004

  • Heavenly ascent

    Max Wooldridge experiences the magnificent temples of Angkor Wat from a balloon and stays afloat long after landing

August 2001

  • Something old, something new

    Cambodia is gradually emerging from the shadow of its past to become one of Asia's most intriguing destinations. Dan White explores the ancient splendours of Angkor Wat and the modern horror of Pol Pot's killing fields

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