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A self-guided audio walking tour of Siem Reap, the town that grew from villages around Buddhist wats along its river. It starts at Pub Street and Psar Chas, the Old Market, crosses the river by the Art Deco bridge of 1928 and visits Wat Damnak, on the grounds of a royal residence King Sisowath used from 1904 to 1927, and Wat Preah Prom Rath. On the east bank come Wat Bo, Wat Po Lanka and Wat Preah Enkosei, where two brick towers of an older temple, with an inscription dated to 968 CE, stand beside a modern pagoda. Back across the river are the Angkor National Museum, the Grand Hotel d'Angkor, taking guests by the 1932 to 1933 season, the Royal Independence Gardens, the shrine of Preah Ang Chek and Preah Ang Chorm, the Ya Tep shrine on its traffic island and the Royal Residence, begun in 1904. The last stop, reached by tuk-tuk, is Wat Thmei and its memorial to the Khmer Rouge years, which began in 1975 when the whole population of Siem Reap was driven out of the town.
15 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 · 58 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 1 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.
Pub Street, Psar Chas, the Old Market, The Old Market bridge and the Siem Reap River, Wat Damnak, Wat Preah Prom Rath.
Wat Bo, Wat Po Lanka, Wat Preah Enkosei.
Angkor National Museum, The Grand Hotel d'Angkor, The Royal Independence Gardens, The shrine of Preah Ang Chek and Preah Ang Chorm, The Ya Tep shrine, The Royal Residence, Wat Thmei and its memorial.
The Old Market west of the river, younger than it looks: in 1901 Siem Reap still had no public market.
A small Art Deco concrete bridge of 1928, still in use, where a wooden bridge once linked the two banks.
A pagoda on the grounds of a royal residence King Sisowath used from 1904 to 1927, its prayer hall dated to 1918.
Two brick towers of an older temple beside a modern Buddhist pagoda, with an inscription dated to 968 CE.
Ernest Hébrard's European-style resort for visitors to Angkor, taking guests by the 1932 to 1933 season.
A pagoda and memorial to the Khmer Rouge years, reached by tuk-tuk; in 1975 the whole town was driven out into the countryside.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 15 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. 15 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 Siem Reap — the Old Market, the River and the Town's Pagodas, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
15 narration points, including Pub Street, Psar Chas, the Old Market, The Old Market bridge and the Siem Reap River, Wat Damnak and Wat Preah Prom Rath. That is about 21 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. 15 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.