Angkor Wat has seen many challenges, like war and nature’s effects. It was left to decay after being abandoned in the 15th ...

Rising out of the Cambodian forest, Angkor Wat is the world’s largest religious compound with a long history intertwined with the rise and fall of the Khmer Empire. In the 12th century, hundreds ...

With its lotus-filled reservoirs and carved stone pillars, Laos’ Vat Phou temple bears a striking resemblance to Cambodia’s Angkor Wat—except for the crowds. Whereas Angkor draws some six ...

What to Do: The Temples . While most tourists will already be familiar with Angkor Wat, there are over a thousand other temples in area, and it would take weeks to see them all.

SIEM REAP: Survivors and sniffing dogs joined hundreds of people at Cam­bodia’s Angkor Wat on Sunday for a march against landmines after the US decision to send anti-personnel mines to Ukraine.

Tourists visit the Angkor Wat temple complex in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, in an April 15, 2025, file photo. Sao Khuth/Xinhua/Getty ...

Angkor Wat, the world's biggest religious complex, is sacred to two faiths. The Khmer Empire built the temples of Angkor amid the lush forests of Cambodia nearly 900 years ago, just as a religious ...

Survivors and sniffing dogs joined hundreds of people at Cambodia's Angkor Wat on Sunday for a march against landmines after the US decision to send. Survivors and sniffing dogs joined hundreds ...

Survivors and sniffing dogs joined hundreds of people at Cambodia's Angkor Wat on Sunday for a march against landmines after the US decision to send anti-personnel mines to Ukraine.