Siem Reapis the capital city ofSiem Reap Provincein northwesternCambodia, and a popularresort townas the gateway toAngkorregion.
Siem Reap has colonial and Chinese-style architecture in the Old French Quarter, and around the Old Market. In the city, there are museums, traditionalApsaradance performances, a Cambodian cultural village, souvenir and handycraft shops, silk farms, rice-paddies in the countryside, fishing villages and a bird sanctuary near theTonle Sap Lake.
Siem Reap today,being a popular tourist destination,has a large number of hotels, resorts, restaurants and businesses closely related totourism. This is much owed to its proximity to the Angkor temples, the most populartourist attractionin Cambodia.