Heritage versus tourism: the nightmare of Cambodia’s Angkor Wat

Heritage versus tourism: the nightmare of Cambodia’s Angkor Wat SIEM REAP, Cambodia: The blistering heat at Cambodia’s Angkor temples eases, and the sun’s last soft shimmer will soon brush some of the most wondrous monuments ever created by man. It’s a moment for peaceful reverence. Hardly. A traffic jam of up to 3,000 tourists surges up a steep hillside, trampling over vulnerable