SIEM REAP

Located 8km from the airport, near the city are quickly affected by the road surrounded by 6 and grand hotels dotted with modest homes where Cambodian restaurants, massage rooms and other guests intermingle. After a roundabout leading to the prestigious Grand Hotel d'Angkor and the residence of the King is facing him, the needle to Angkor itself or the city itself. Siem Reap is a modern and vibrant city whose name means in Khmer "the Siamese defeated" in memory of a defeat of the invaders. Its architecture combines traditional, colonial and modern along a watercourse, the Stung Siem Reap. His visit will take you to discover its markets, monasteries and artisans

Siem Reap is the name of the province where its namesake town. Its area of 15,271 km2 to 704 000 inhabitants is one of the most populated provinces and most dynamic of the kingdom, partly due to tourism activity generated around the site of Angkor. Around the city practice rice and buffalo breeding in a savanna landscape planted some trees. This plain is topped with a few hills (Phnom) isolated and bordered on the south by the waters of the great fishing lake Tonle Sap whose annual overflow enriches cultures. In the north, the sandstone plateau of Phnom Khulen houses Careers sandstone used for Angkorian monuments and the sources of rivers that have made the wealth of Angkor. Further north, the plain gives way to a medium and dense forest to the mountain of Dangrek, northern Cambodia. If more than 3000 monuments have been rescence in Cambodia, about 1200 are located in this province, witnessed the importance of this region in the Khmer history