Angkor Wat Tops Lonely Planet 'ultimate' travel destinations List

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By Barry Neild, CNN

(CNN)Four decades after it began as a penniless backpacker's bible to traveling on the cheap, Lonely Planet is publishing what it says is the definitive guide to the world's top tourism attractions.

The publisher has assembled a crack team of travel authors and experts to compile its "Ultimate Travel" list, ranking "mega-sights and hidden gems in a definitive wish list of the 500 best places to visit on earth."

"Ultimate Travel: The 500 Best Places on the Planet...Ranked," is being launched in August in some countries as "Ultimate Travelist," but will not be available in the U.S. until October.

While many are best-of list regulars, culled from UNESCO's World Heritage roster or, indeed, Lonely Planet's own country-by-country highlights, there are a few surprises.

And so the top 20 list finds Tasmania's Museum of Modern and Old Art and Fez's Medina rubbing shoulders with travel titans such as the Grand Canyon and the Taj Mahal.

1. Temples of Angkor (Siem Reap, Cambodia)

Lonely Planet says: The world's greatest temple to the Hindu god Vishnu, the magnificent monument of Angkor Wat is the crowning glory in a complex of more than 1000 temples, shrines and tombs that forms a virtual city of spires in the jungles of northern Cambodia.

source: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/17/travel/lonely-planet-ultimate-travelist/index.html

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Angkor Wat Tops Lonely Planet List

Khmer Times/Naomi-Collett Ritz

Tuesday, 18 August 2015

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SIEM REAP (Khmer Times) – Winning “by a complete landslide,” Angkor Wat has earned the top spot in Lonely Planet’s new “Ultimate Travelist 2015” guide to the world’s best places to visit on Monday.

Lonely Planet asserts: “When all the votes were counted, the No.1 sight was the undisputed champion by quite some margin.”

“Described as the ‘Hindu heaven on earth,’ this complex of more than 1,000 temples, shrines and tombs that form a virtual city of spires in the jungles of northern Cambodia, takes the crown,” Lonely Planet said.

read more: http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14634/angkor-wat-tops-lonely-planet-list/

[meinanzi]

Well deserved. Been there five times and loved it each time.

[Jip99]

Deserved, and well worth visit by those residing in Thailand.

Easily accessible from Thailand and the visit is well supported by excellent facilities in Siem Reap.

[Farang99]

Deserved, and well worth visit by those residing in Thailand.

Easily accessible from Thailand and the visit is well supported by excellent facilities in Siem Reap.

And when you go, don't ignore the other temples within easy car rides of Siem Reap - espectially Banteay Srei, which is one of the most beautiful temples anywhere - a little jewel

[HLover]

What is the best way and also the options to get there in your experience?

[Jip99]

What is the best way and also the options to get there in your experience?

What is your starting point?

[HLover]

Laem Chabang port

[Jip99]

Laem Chabang port

Poipet is your most accessible border point.

It is the busiest border crossing into Cambodia and I hate it. I find it less friendly than many others and just overcrowded. Don't let that put you off going.

Much depends on your budget and the type of traveler you are. You can drive to the border where there is secure parking, take a bus or a shared van, Same on the other side; bus, taxi or shared transport.

With AirAsia doing promo fares that can work at 2,800 Baht all in, I would look at the flying option.

Flying (and using Poipet) gives the option of paying a bit more for an e-visa to save time and a page in your passport.

[HLover]

Thank you kindly