Close enough to walk, quiet enough to sleep.

The temple left half-swallowed by fig and silk-cotton trees, roots running straight through the stonework. Most people know it from Tomb Raider.

A hilltop temple, climbed in the late afternoon for the sunset view back over the plain. It was a state temple, standing about two hundred years before Angkor Wat.

The small pink sandstone temple with the finest carving at Angkor, paired with a carved riverbed upstream.

A sprawling monastic complex, quieter than its neighbours and pleasantly overgrown.

A largely unrestored temple in the forest, mostly collapsed, and you scramble over it.

A tenth-century capital built around a seven-tiered pyramid you can still climb. It was the capital for barely twenty years, and far enough out to make a day of it. Quiet when you get there.

Worth an hour before the temples, as it makes sense of what you are about to see.

Discover how African giant pouched rats are trained to detect landmines and unexploded ordnance across Cambodia.

Free guided walk through the whole process, from mulberry trees and silkworms to the loom.

A stilted village on Tonlé Sap, houses standing on ten-metre poles above the flood line. The lake rises and falls several metres between the seasons, which is what the poles are for.

A forested plateau with a waterfall you can swim under and a reclining Buddha cut into the rock at the top. A full day, and the entry fee is separate from the Angkor pass.

Rescued animals taken out of the illegal wildlife trade, at the foot of Kbal Spean. Two guided tours a day, booked ahead.