Pub Street and the Old Market, Siem Reap
The pedestrian centre of Siem Reap town, next to the century-old Psar Chas market.
Pub Street and the Old Market, Siem Reap
Pub Street is the short pedestrianised strip at the heart of Siem Reap town, closed to traffic in the evenings and lined end to end with bars, restaurants and lit signage. It is where almost everyone visiting Angkor ends up after the temples close, and it makes no pretence of being anything else.
Immediately beside it stands Psar Chas, the Old Market, which is considerably older and still functions as a working market - produce, fish, spices and prepared food in the middle, souvenirs and textiles around the edges. The alleys running off Pub Street, particularly The Lane and the Alley, carry quieter bars and restaurants a few metres from the noise.
The whole district is walkable and sits on the river a couple of kilometres south of the Angkor ticket office.
- Angkor National Museum, Siem Reap — The museum that explains the Khmer empire, best visited before the temples rather than after.
- Angkor Wat, Siem Reap — The largest religious monument in the world, built in the twelfth century and never abandoned since.
- Banteay Srei, Siem Reap — A small tenth-century temple in pink sandstone, carved more finely than anything else at Angkor.
- Preah Khan, Angkor — A vast, half-collapsed monastic city north of Angkor Thom, quieter than any temple of its size.
- Ta Prohm, Angkor — The temple left in the grip of the forest, where silk-cotton roots grow through the masonry.
- The Bayon, Angkor Thom — The temple of two hundred serene stone faces at the exact centre of the walled city of Angkor Thom.
