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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.

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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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Product details

Series: Moon Handbooks

Paperback: 272 pages

Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing; 2 edition (September 22, 2015)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1631211412

ISBN-13: 978-1631211416

Product Dimensions:

5.6 x 0.6 x 7.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.0 out of 5 stars

14 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

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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.

Fabulous book - full of details. The photos make me want to visit. Highly recommend if you are fascinated by world history. Highly recommend to any that wonders about the rest of the world. I know a few people that visited on a Doctors Without Borders trip & they loved the book! The stories and photos tell the story. Nature among the ruins is fascinating.

There are probably better guides out there but it was ok from my 3 days in Angkor-Wat.

I was able to obtain this book at the last minute for a trip to Cambodia (Phnom Penh) and unexpectedly had an extra day to explore. It was PERFECT!! Looking through gave me a good overview and through reading gave me the details needed.

Very helpful resource in planning an upcoming vacation.

I ordered the newest edition of this book (January 2013) from Amazon for a trip that I have not yet taken and, without having left home, the back index pages have fallen out. The content of the guide book is excellent, especially suggestions for one two three days of Angkor. The set up is typical - history, highlights, accommodations, transportation, people and culture, activities, and safety. What is not typical is a poorly bound travel book! An alternative is "Insight Guides Laos and Cambodia" (also 2013 edition).

The writing style was poor and hard to follow. It made the history portions and religious mythology much more complicated than necessary, and harder to understand than they should have been.I only found a few of the pages to be particularly helpful, though they did the trick.

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