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A self-guided audio walking tour of Angkor Wat, built for King Suryavarman the Second as a Hindu temple to Vishnu and turned, step by step from the late thirteenth century, into a Buddhist shrine that monks never stopped using. It follows the intended approach from the west: across the moat on the causeway lined with naga balustrades, through the western gopura where the Vishnu statue known as Ta Reach stands, past the two libraries and the reflecting pools to the cruciform terrace. Then it walks the outer gallery's bas-reliefs in order: the Battle of Kurukshetra, Suryavarman's army with its twenty-eight carved inscriptions, the heavens and hells, the Churning of the Ocean of Milk, the panels carved between 1546 and 1564 under King Ang Chan, and the Battle of Lanka. Inside come Preah Poan, the Gallery of a Thousand Buddhas with its pilgrim inscriptions, the Hall of Echoes, the devatas of the second enclosure and the Bakan, the central sanctuary that stands for Mount Meru. The walk ends half a kilometre east, at the largely unrestored eastern entrance.
19 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 15 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 3 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
The moat and the western causeway, Western entrance and the Ta Reach statue, Northern library, Southern library, The reflecting pools, The cruciform terrace.
Bas-relief: the Battle of Kurukshetra, Bas-relief: the army of Suryavarman II, Bas-relief: the heavens and hells, Bas-relief: the Churning of the Ocean of Milk, Bas-relief: Vishnu's victory over the asuras, Bas-relief: Krishna's victory over Bana, Bas-relief: the battle of the gods and the asuras, Bas-relief: the Battle of Lanka, Gallery of a Thousand Buddhas (Preah Poan), Hall of Echoes.
The devatas of the second enclosure, The central sanctuary (Bakan), Eastern entrance.
The moat about 1.5 kilometres long and the causeway lined with naga balustrades, laid out as a processional path toward Mount Meru.
A procession about ninety-three metres long, with the king on his elephant under fifteen parasols and inscriptions naming his commanders.
The relief in three registers of the 37 heavens and 32 hells, with Yama on his buffalo directing the dead to their fate.
Gods and asuras pulling the serpent Vasuki around Mount Mandara, with Vishnu at the centre and the tortoise Kurma holding the mountain up.
The cruciform cloister where pilgrims left Buddha images, with inscriptions on the pillars recording a 17th-century journey.
The central tower among four, representing Mount Meru, its once-open Vishnu shrine later walled in and carved with Buddha images.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 19 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 19 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Angkor Wat — the Temple, its Galleries and its Reliefs, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
19 narration points, including The moat and the western causeway, Western entrance and the Ta Reach statue, Northern library, Southern library and The reflecting pools. That is about 23 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~1–2 hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 19 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.