4 landmarks in Svay Dankum with verified facts and stories most people walk right past.
Artisans Angkor
Stung Thmey Street, Svay Dankum, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Artisans Angkor is Cambodia's flagship craft school and social enterprise — founded in 1992 by the French NGO Chantiers-Écoles de Formation Professionnelle to revive traditional Khmer crafts (stone carving, wood carving, silk weaving, lacquer, silver work, and gilded silk painting) after the Khmer Rouge had killed most of the country's master craftspeople.
Baphuon
Taphul Street, Svay Dankum, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Baphuon is a massive 11th-century temple-mountain inside Angkor Thom dedicated to Shiva — the temple was built around 1060 under King Udayadityavarman II and originally rose three pyramidal levels to a bronze-clad tower that Chinese envoy Zhou Daguan (who visited Angkor in 1296) called one of the great wonders of the empire.
Phare Cambodian Circus
B41, Ung Oeun Street, Svay Dankum, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Phare, the Cambodian Circus, is the most acclaimed performing arts company in Cambodia — a circus-theatre troupe that combines acrobatics, music, dance, and storytelling to tell Cambodian stories, including the traumatic history of the Khmer Rouge era that the country is still processing.
Pub Street & Siem Reap Night Market
Street 8 , Svay Dankum, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Pub Street is Siem Reap's tourist nightlife strip — a pedestrianised street of bars, restaurants, and the famous '$0.
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