Gateway to Angkor Wat

By The World ⋅ January 12, 2011

Angkor Wat (photo: Uspn)

The city in northern Cambodia our Geo Quiz takes us today is a gateway city for international tourists to Angkor. That’s Cambodia’s world heritage site with its Wat temples that date back to 12th century Khmer civilization. The temples appear on Cambodia’s flag.

But most tourists also like to poke around this city’s old French Quarter, and the street markets. Before you get lost in the market or collide with one of those scooters we’ve got the answer. It’s Siem Reap

It’s a city that’s known for it’s Chinese style buildings and picturesque rice paddy countryside. There are also reminders of the city’s painful period in the 1970′s when its population was evacuated by force ‘, and came under the rule of the brutal Khmer Rouge.

Traveler Richard Fleming is in Siem Reap and sent us an audio postcard:

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Cambodia's flag (Photo: Peter Fleming)