The scaffolding is gone. At the centre of the West Baray, West Mebon has recovered its 11th-century outline. The APSARA National Authority plans to inaugurate it in November 2026. Visitors have not waited.

Set Hach dirige une coopérative agricole Set Hach runs an agricultural cooperative in Siem Reap province. On 15 October, in Rome, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) named her one of its first "100 Women Heroes" in agrifood systems and rural development.

On 29 September, the Cambodia Branding Forum brought together more than 130 tourism professionals, artisans and artists. The question on the table: how do you keep visitors longer with something other than temples? The answers came out of workshops on active tourism, crafts and places worth living in.

After 15,000 visitors last year, the Francophonie Village is putting its tents back up along the Siem Reap River from 6 to 8 November 2026. Entry is free again. The event takes place ahead of the Francophonie Summit.

Every Friday and Saturday, the Cambodia Tourism Board stages free Kun Lbokator shows at Angkor Thom and Sbek Thom shadow theatre on the Siem Reap River

From 7 to 25 November 2026, Lotus Silk Farm in Siem Reap hosts Festival Lotus: artisans, music, Khmer and French food. Free entry by day

It was meant to be a stopgap until the pandemic passed. Six years on, Chantrea Thorn runs Ammo Jewellery. The Siem Reap social enterprise is now fully Khmer-owned and managed. It still turns spent casings into jewellery, with a design signature that is more Cambodian every year.

At Angkor Thom, the Terrace of the Elephants has become one of the favourite spots for Cambodian couples to shoot their engagement and pre-wedding photos. Each late afternoon, couples, make-up artists and photography teams gather there, with centuries-old temples as a backdrop.

A photo, snapped hastily from the doorway, posted minutes later in a local Facebook group: “Does anyone know what this is? It's in my garden, I don't know what to do.” In Siem Reap, as elsewhere in Cambodia, this scene repeats itself almost daily during the rainy season.

On 12 July 2026, in Siem Reap, France's national holiday was celebrated at an evening event organised by CCIFC Siem Reap at Artisans Angkor.

Since its official inauguration on October 25, 2025, the SM Art Center has established itself as one of the most ambitious cultural spaces ever created in Cambodia. Located in Krosang village, Chreav commune, just outside Siem Reap's tourist core, the center presents itself as Cambodia's first contemporary art center and museum devoted entirely to modern Cambodian creation.v

For one weekend, Sara and Cindy swapped the bustle of Phnom Penh for the calm of Templation, about ten minutes from downtown Siem Reap. On the agenda: one night in a pool villa, another in the famous Jungloo, surrounded by beautiful exotic greenery. Here's what they thought.

From 17 to 24 November 2026, the Tini Tinou International Circus Festival returns for an unprecedented 13th edition, split for the first time between Siem Reap and Battambang. Organised by Phare Ponleu Selpak and its social enterprise Phare, The Cambodian Circus, the festival promises to be, in the words of its organisers, "bolder, brighter, bigger" than ever, bringing Cambodian and international artists together under the Big Top and out into the streets.

It's a botanical garden unlike any other in Siem Reap, or even in Cambodia. Over an area of 15 hectares, aromatic herbs, flowers, trees...

It is a partnership as discreet as it is decisive. Park Hyatt Siem Reap has just announced its collaboration with the World Monuments Fund (WMF), a leading global institution in heritage preservation.

Creativity, prudence and longevity are the key words that characterise the sumptuous Angkor Village. Celebrating its 30th anniversary...

There is a version of business travel where your morning conference call takes place beneath a canopy of tropical leaves, and where the only interruptions are birdsong. That place exists. It's called Jungloo.

In Khmer, « phsar » simply means « market ». But Phsar Leu Thom Thmey — the « Great Upper New Market » — is much more than a place name: it’s the oldest and largest market in Siem Reap, the only one never designed for visitors.

Between millenary temples and blooming frangipani, one of Cambodia's most elegant hotels transforms business travel into an art of living.

At five in the morning, the Krous Village market bursts into a secret, frenzied life, well before the residents poke their noses out.

On Thursday, April 30, 2026, Mouhot’s Dream restaurant at the Sofitel Angkor invites its guests to a singular evening, suspended between matter and taste, between artisanal gesture and culinary creation. An exceptional dinner signed by two Erics, two artisans of excellence: Eric Stocker, master lacquerer, and Eric Berrigaud, the hotel’s executive chef.

Just a stone's throw from the Angkor temples, a lush park houses the first incubation center for Cambodian craftsmanship. Here, dozens of artisans perpetuate millennial know-how, learn to pass it on — and make a living from it.

She is 21 years old, with a radiant smile and a very clear idea of where she's headed. Naphorn grew up in Siem Reap, daughter of farmers, and it was in this same city that she learned everything — English, service, self-confidence. Today, she works as an F&B assistant at the Anjali Hotel. She shines.

On April 21, 2026, Siem Reap inaugurated its second Destination Éco-Talents center, located in the Artisans Angkor workshops. One day of work, two workshops, about twenty partners — and a strong signal: the city is now positioning itself as a major anchor for sustainable tourism. Cécile Martin-Phipps, director of the IFDD, led the workshops and presided over the ceremony. It was her first visit to Cambodia. We met with her.