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A self-guided audio walking tour of Ta Prohm, the Rajavihara or Royal Monastery that Jayavarman the Seventh founded in 1186 and dedicated to his mother, honoured here as Prajnaparamita. It begins at the western gate under the four faces of Lokesvara and follows the forest path, about 350 metres, to the cross-shaped terrace and causeway over the moat. Inside, it reaches the plain central sanctuary, its walls pierced with evenly spaced holes, then the galleries where silk-cotton trees and strangler figs grip the stone, kept by French conservators in the early twentieth century as the forest left them. It looks at the small carving visitors call a stegosaurus and what scholars think it shows, then goes east through the Hall of Dancers, restored by 2022, past the House of Fire to the eastern gate, rebuilt stone by stone. The temple's stele, quoted along the way, counts more than twelve thousand people living at the temple and 102 hospitals across the kingdom.
9 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 · 7 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 2 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 western gate and its face tower, The forest causeway, The central sanctuary.
The trees in the galleries, The so-called dinosaur carving.
Hall of Dancers, The eastern entrance to the temple, House of Fire, The eastern gate.
The cross-shaped gate tower crowned by four faces of Lokesvara, looking out in the four directions over the forest path.
The plain sandstone shrine that once held the image of Prajnaparamita, its walls pierced by evenly spaced holes.
Silk-cotton trees and strangler figs that grip, hold and split the galleries, left in place by French conservators.
A hand-sized roundel visitors read as a stegosaurus, which scholars see as a lizard, rhinoceros, boar or other animal.
A cross-shaped hall of carved apsara dancers, its fallen stones reassembled in a restoration finished in November 2022.
The rebuilt eastern gopura, and the stele recording 102 hospitals and more than twelve thousand people living at the temple.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 9 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. 9 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 Ta Prohm — the Temple and the Trees, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
9 narration points, including The forest causeway, The central sanctuary, The trees in the galleries, Hall of Dancers and House of Fire. That is about 12 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. 9 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.