What to bring for your trip in cambodia

Preparing
What to bring for your trip in cambodia

Dress for a tropical environment - warm, humid, sunny. Wear light, airy, covering clothing to protect from the sun and mosquitoes. The sun can be intense so bring a hat, sunglasses and sunscreen. Consider buying a traditional Khmer scarf (krama) to keep the sun off your neck. Carry a raincoat during the wet season (May- October,) though you will probably only need it in the afternoon. You should have mosquito repellent for sunrise and sunset hours. Wear practical shoes for climbing narrow steps and walking on uneven surfaces. For serious temple explorers, a flashlight, notebook and compass can come in handy. Books, refreshments, water, trinkets and snacks are available from small vendors throughout the Park. The temples are too far apart to make foot travel practical (though some hearty visitors are hiking it anyway). Transportation options include: moto-remorques (tuk-tuks) are around $15-$20/day; taxis starting at $25-$30/day; motorcycle taxi (motodup) for $10-$12/day; bicycles for $2-$3/day.

There are always additional fees for transport to distant temples outside the Park (e.g. Banteay Srey, Phnom
Kulen, Kbal Spean, Koh Ker.) Negotiate the fare with your driver. Bicycling around the temples has become quite popular. If you have the time to spare, the roads are good, the terrain is flat and the distances are about right. See page 101 for more on transportation. This guidebook is an adequate introduction to the temples, but more extensive guides give better, more detailed treatment to the details of the bas-reliefs, temple layouts and architectural/artistic context. Guidebooks and other Angkor related books can be
purchase at bookstores and many of the souvenir shops. Bootlegged books are sold at the Old Market
and by vendors throughout the Angkor complex. Ancient Angkor (Guidebook) Michael Freeman and
Claude Jacques. (Thailand: River Books, 2006) Beautifully photographed, authoritative guidebook to the temples of Angkor and the Angkor Archaeological Park. One of the top guidebooks to the temples. Recommended. Angkor: Cambodia’s Wondrous Khmer Temples (Guidebook) Dawn F. Rooney (Odyssey Publications, Hong Kong, 2006, 5th edition) Popular, complete, accurate. The most complete English language guidebook available. One of the top guidebooks to the temples.
Recommended.The Angkor Guidebook: Your Essential Companion to the Temples Andrew Booth (Thailand: 2014, Amarin Printing and Publishing) Unique guidebook to the temples employing photo overlays to show how the temples may have appeared when they were new and active. Angkor Observed Dawn F. Rooney. (Thailand: Orchid Guides, 2003) A nostalgic picture of the early days of tourism to Angkor drawn through excerpts from 19th/20th century journals and travelogues.
A Field Guide to Siem Reap Pagodas Ray Zepp. (Cambodia: 2000) A knowledgeable, easy-to-read introduction to Cambodian Buddhism and local pagodas. The Customs of Cambodia Zhou Daguan (Chuo Ta-Kuan). A short but unique and fascinating eye-witness account of royal and ordinary life in 13th century Angkor. (A) History of Cambodia David Chandler. (Bangkok Thailand: White Lotus, 1994) A complete, scholarly but accessible account of Cambodian history from the dawn of Funan to the present.
Images of the Gods: Khmer Mythology in Cambodia, Laos & Thailand Vittorio Roveda. (Bangkok: River
Books, 2005) A sweeping photographic exposition and historical analysis of ancient Khmer sculpture reliefs
from Angkor and across the region.

Khmer Heritage in the Old Siamese Provinces of Cambodia Etienne Aymonier. (Bangkok Thailand: White
Lotus, 1999, orig. 1901) Turn of the century report/guide. Locations and temple descriptions of familiar and remote temples. The Monuments of the Angkor Group (Les monuments du groupe d'Angkor) Maurice Glaize. Classic 1944 guide to the temples written by a former Conservator of Angkor (1937-1945). Available in English and French and also online. www.theangkorguide.com Travels in Siam, Cambodia, Laos and Annam Henri Mouhot. (Thailand: White Lotus, 2000 reprint, orig.
1864).