Greetings from Cambodia — where day number four finds us at one of the most unique of all of our destinations — the ancient temples of Angkor Wat. Before I tell you about this amazing place, let me ...

Cambodia, a fascinating country in Southeast Asia, shares borders with Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand. Among its many highlights, the city of Siem Reap stands out as a top destination for one compelling ...

Planning your next international trip and craving something beyond beaches, shopping streets, and mountains? Imagine standing before a sunrise that spills golden light over ancient stone towers, ...

The temple of Angkor Wat was much larger and more complex than previously thought, University of Sydney archaeologists have discovered. The University of Sydney's Professor Roland Fletcher and Dr ...

At 400 acres, Angkor Wat (“temple city” or “temple that is a city” in Khmer, the language of Cambodia) is considered the largest religious structure in the world. Yet despite its size, it feels ...

The ancient city of Angkor — the most famous monument of which is the breathtaking ruined temple of Angkor Wat — might have collapsed due to valiant but ultimately failed efforts to battle drought, ...

Smartphone-toting pilgrims regularly stream into northern Cambodia from all over the world. Their destination: Angkor Wat, a medieval temple that’s famous for massive towers and majestic stone ...

Cambodia's famous temple of Angkor Wat is one of the world's largest religious monuments, visited by over two million tourists each year. It was built in the early 12th century by King Suryavarman II, ...

This story appears in the July 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. From the air, the centuries-old temple appears and vanishes like a hallucination. At first it is no more than an umber smudge ...

This article was originally published on November 9, 2015. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section. Angkor Wat is just one of dozens of extant ...

The Khmer Empire built the temples of Angkor amid the lush forests of Cambodia nearly 900 years ago, just as a religious shift from Hinduism to Buddhism was beginning. Heavenly towersThe Angkor Wat ...