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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
 
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