Cambodia travel tips

Is Cambodia safe?

1 guide, each rated 1 to 5 with the reason — and two lists per place, where you are comfortable and where to pay attention. Nowhere is called dangerous; the specific thing is what helps.

4.0 average across 1 guide · Safe
Siem Reap & Angkor, Cambodia

Siem Reap & Angkor Safe

Crime against visitors is rare and the town is comfortable at night. The real hazards are heat and dehydration at the temples, where there is little shade and people faint every day, and traffic. Never walk off marked paths in rural areas — Cambodia still has unexploded ordnance outside the tourist zones.

Comfortable: Old Market, Siem Reap · Wat Bo · Sala Kamreuk

  • Pub Street — at closing time, for bag snatching and drink spiking
  • Riding a motorbike to the temples, which foreigners are not permitted to do here
  • Landmine risk off marked paths at the outlying temples — stay on the trail

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Angkor Wat in daylight, monks crossing the grass in front of the templeSiem Reap & AngkorCambodiaThe largest religious monument ever built, and a town that grew up to see it