Sarah Rhodes

Siem Reap

 

A mobile app released this week aims to fill in the gaps for visitors who opt out of a traditional tour guide at the temple of Angkor Wat. Angkor App features a map and audiovisual guides to lead visitors through Siem Reap’s most iconic landmark.

 

The idea for the app was conceived by two volunteers for children’s NGO Anjali House, Don Hodges and Kate Murphy. All proceeds from sales of the app, which costs about $4, go directly to the local organisation.

 

Angkor App took about a year to put together. In late 2015, Hodges and Murphy conducted a survey of tourists and found that it wasn’t the cost of a tour guide that deterred people from hiring one, but the desire to experience the temple at their own pace.

 

read more http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/digital-guide-temple-angkor-wat

 

 

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"..it wasn’t the cost of a tour guide that deterred people from hiring one, but the desire to experience the temple at their own pace…"

 

Im all for progress but now some of these poor guides will be out of a job….not a good thing for such a poor country.

 

 

When I was last there (50 years ago) there were no guides, just the cyclo-pousse guys who could take you around but let you explore at your own speed, with Henri Parmentier's Guide in hand it was all we needed