Welcome to touringangkor.com

My name is Vutthy Pheung (Phoeung) and I am a driver for tourists wishing to explore the Angkor complex and other sites in Cambodia

The main attractions in Cambodia  are the many temples in the Angkor area near Siem Reap, and the vast majority of tourists (said to be well over 2½ million during 2007), whether in groups or independently come to the country for just a few days in order to visit these. The best preserved temples date from the 9^th to the 13^th centuries, as largely uncovered and restored during the French protectorate of the 19^th / 20^th centuries.  Note that Angkor Vat (earlier known as Vishnuloka) remained in continual use by Buddhist communities.

Many more temples are scattered throughout the whole country from the important Preah Vihier site in the far north perched on the Dangrek Range and the very early sites around Angkor Borei to the far south. Because of the primitive state of the roads in these areas all such travel tends to be adventurous. Visitors seeking adventurous travel for its own sake can travel by boat up the Mekong River from Phnom Penh to Stung Treng and beyond to the border area with Laos, or explore the remote provinces of Ratnagiri and Mondolgiri in the north-east. Koh Kong in the north-west can be reached by sea from  Kampong Saom or by road, leading off the main Phnom Penh – Kampong Saom (Sihanoukville) highway, but  there are five primitive ferries to be crossed on this last 150 km section.  At Koh Kong there is a border-crossing from Thailand and some intrepid travellers enter Cambodia from that route. A more popular entry-point from Thailand (Aranyaprathet) is at Poipet some 300 kms north of Siem Reap.  Vutthy can give advice on all such tougher means of travel, but he expects to deal mainly with visitors who arrive in Siem Reap by air, by road or by boat. One should note that a helicopter can be hired privately in Siem Reap, which makes travel to remote sites easy and swift.