A few suggestions for your shortlist.
Published/Last edited or updated: 9th August, 2017
If you wander into Monument Book Store on the riverside to the south of Old Market, you’ll discover, among many others, about half a dozen shelves piled high with guidebooks to Angkor—but which one should you get? Here are a few that belong on your shortlist.
Please sign in to read the rest of this page. The full text is around 800 words.
Log in nowChoose from a free two-day pass right through to a lifetime membership.
Find out more Reviewed by
Nicky Sullivan
Nicky Sullivan is an Irish freelance writer (and aspiring photographer). She has lived in England, Ireland, France, Spain and India, but decided that her tribe and heart are in Cambodia, where she has lived since 2007 despite repeated attempts to leave. She dreams of being as tough as Dervla Murphy, but fears there may be a long way to go. She can’t stand whisky for starters. She was a researcher, writer and coordinator for The Angkor Guidebook: Your Essential Companion to the Temples, now one of the best-selling guidebooks to the temples.
Our top 10 other sights and activities in and around Angkor
A crowd-pleasing favourite
Choose your own adventure
A basket of bottles
Spectacular jungle ruins
Stunning carvings
Rambling and exquisite
Top sunset spot
A great dawn alternative
You can do it!
An under rated gem