# Siem Reap with Kids: What Works, What Does Not, and How to Beat the Heat (2026) > One temple a day before 10 a.m., a pool by 1 p.m. Under-12s enter Angkor free, Phare charges $10 to $18 for children, and the April high is 36°C. A 3-day family plan. Source: https://www.angkortourism.org/siem-reap-with-kids/ · Angkor Tourism Guide · Published September 10, 2026 · Updated October 25, 2026 · Figures checked October 2026 ## At a Glance - Children under 12 enter the Angkor Archaeological Park free. Checkpoint staff may ask for the passport as proof of age, so carry it, not a photocopy. - Under-12s are not allowed up the Bakan, the upper tower of Angkor Wat. Ta Prohm, the Bayon, Banteay Kdei and Preah Khan have no such restriction and no long stairways. - The average daily high in Siem Reap is 34.9°C in March and 35.8°C in April. Between November and January it is 30.6°C to 31.7°C. Temples are an early-morning activity in every month. - Phare, the Cambodian Circus, performs nightly at 8:00 p.m. on Ring Road, about 10 minutes by tuk-tuk from Pub Street. Adult tickets are $18 to $38 and children aged 5 to 11 pay $10 to $18. - The Cambodia Landmine Museum, 25 km north on the Banteay Srei road, charges $7 for adults and nothing for children under 13. It opens 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. - The APOPO Visitor Center on Koumai Road runs one-hour HeroRAT demonstrations from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. for $10, children under 10 free. Book online. - The Angkor National Museum on Charles de Gaulle Avenue is air-conditioned, open 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (6:30 p.m. October to March), and charges $12 for adults and $6 for children aged 6 to 12. - Phnom Kulen's waterfall is 48 km and 1.5 to 2 hours away, costs $20 per person including children, and the road up closes to ascending traffic at 11:00 a.m. - Kampong Phluk on the Tonle Sap is 30 km from town. The community boat is about $20 per person plus a $2 village fee, and the flooded-forest paddle runs roughly August to early December. - Royal Angkor International Hospital on National Road 6 runs a 24-hour emergency department, phone +855 63 761 888. U-Care Pharmacy has branches near the Old Market and on Sivatha Boulevard. Siem Reap works with children on one condition that the family guides leave out: one temple a day, before 10:00 a.m., and a pool by early afternoon. Break the rule and the town becomes a hot, dusty argument. Keep it and a family of four can have three good days here, with a child who remembers the faces at the Bayon and the trees at Ta Prohm rather than the heat. The pages that come up for this question list twenty activities and rank them. They do not say that the Angkor Wat upper level is closed to under-12s, that the April high averages 35.8°C, that the sunrise visit costs the whole morning, or that Phnom Kulen's road shuts to upward traffic at 11:00 a.m. They also tend to recycle venues that closed years ago. This guide names only places confirmed open in 2025 or 2026, gives the ages each one suits, and ends with a three-day plan built around the heat rather than against it. Prices, hours and transport times below were checked against operator websites and official sources in October 2026. ## The One-Temple Rule Every adult itinerary for Angkor runs on a circuit: five or six temples between 5:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., with a lunch stop. That is the shape of a small circuit day, and it is the shape most family guides copy, trimming a temple or two. It does not work with children, for three reasons that have nothing to do with attention span. The first is heat. Angkor's temples are stone, open to the sky and surrounded by cleared ground. By 10:00 a.m. in any month the sandstone is radiating. By 11:00 a.m. from March to May the air is above 34°C and the shade inside a gallery is not much better. The second is stairs. Khmer temple-mountains were built to be climbed with difficulty. Steps at Angkor Wat's upper level, at Baphuon, Pre Rup, Ta Keo and Phnom Bakheng are steep, narrow and high, and the modern wooden stairways bolted onto some of them are still a vertical climb with no rail a small child can reach. The upper level of Angkor Wat is closed to children under 12 outright. The third is repetition. To an eight-year-old, the fourth temple of the morning looks like the third. The faces of the Bayon and the trees of Ta Prohm stand out because they are different. A grand circuit of five brick and sandstone sanctuaries does not. So the plan is one temple per morning, chosen for what a child will notice, finished before the heat, followed by something cold. The three temple mornings in the plan at the end of this guide cover Ta Prohm, the Bayon with the Angkor Thom gates, and Angkor Wat itself at 7:00 a.m. when the sunrise crowd has left. Everything else in Angkor can wait until the children are older. For which temples hold a child's attention and how long each takes, the [Angkor with kids guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/angkor-with-kids/) goes temple by temple. ## Siem Reap by Age ### Under 5 The honest verdict: Siem Reap is manageable with a toddler and rewarding mainly for the parents. A child under five will not remember the temples. What they will respond to is Ta Prohm's trees, the monkeys on the road to Angkor Wat, the pool, the tuk-tuk itself, and the night market's lights. One temple morning is plenty, with the child in a carrier rather than a stroller. The useful facts: under-12s enter the park free, Phare's child tickets start at age 5 so a four-year-old sits on a lap at no charge if the box office agrees, the Angkor National Museum is free under 6, and the APOPO Visitor Center is free under 10. Afternoon naps in air conditioning are not a luxury here, they are the schedule. The limitation: dengue is present in Siem Reap year-round and a toddler cannot be relied on to keep repellent on, so long light sleeves at dawn and dusk matter more than at home. ### 5 to 10 The age Siem Reap is built for. A seven-year-old can walk Ta Prohm, count faces at the Bayon, sit through Phare, hold a HeroRAT at APOPO, swim under a waterfall at Phnom Kulen and ride pillion on a quad through the rice fields. The Landmine Museum is a judgment call at the younger end of this band: the exhibits are real mines and the story is a war, and some eight-year-olds take it in while others are frightened. The Angkor National Museum works from about seven if an adult reads the labels aloud and skips the gallery of a thousand Buddhas after ten minutes. The limitation: stamina runs out around 10:30 a.m. with no warning, and the tuk-tuk needs to be waiting when it does. ### Teenagers Teenagers get the most from Siem Reap and complain the most about the mornings. The sunrise at Angkor Wat is worth doing once with a 14-year-old who wants the photograph. The Angkor Zipline, quad bikes, wakeboarding at Wake Park Cambodia and a full day at Phnom Kulen are all within reach. The Landmine Museum and APOPO land hardest with this age, and the Angkor National Museum's gallery on the Khmer empire's rise and fall is where the temples start to make sense. A three-day Angkor Pass is a real option with a teenager, because they can take Preah Khan and the grand circuit on day three. The limitation: from the twelfth birthday they pay full adult prices at the park, at Phare and at most venues. ## The Temples That Work Four temples suit children. None of the four has a steep stairway, all four have shade, and each has something a child will notice without being told to. All are inside the Angkor Archaeological Park and covered by the [Angkor Pass](https://www.angkortourism.org/angkor-pass-tickets-prices-hours/), free for under-12s. Shoulders and knees covered for everyone over about 12, and in practice for younger children too at Angkor Wat. ### Ta Prohm The honest verdict: the one temple every child should see. The strangler figs and silk-cotton trees growing out of the walls are the reason, and a child who has seen the Tomb Raider film or any Jungle Book will recognize the scene. The APSARA National Authority has laid wooden walkways through the central section, so the route is flat, with a one-way system that keeps the crowd moving. About 20 minutes by tuk-tuk from Pub Street, 25 minutes from the Angkor Wat ticket checkpoint. Allow 60 to 75 minutes inside. Tour buses arrive around 9:00 a.m., so a 7:30 a.m. start gives the temple in near-silence for an hour. The limitation: outside the walkways the ground is roots, sand and fallen blocks, and the east gate approach is a 300-meter walk through forest with no shade structure at the end. The [Ta Prohm guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/ta-prohm/) covers which gate to enter by and how to avoid walking back through the crowd. ### The Bayon The honest verdict: the second temple, for the faces and the bas-reliefs. The Bayon's towers carry around 200 carved faces, and a child can spend half an hour finding them from the upper terrace. The outer gallery's bas-reliefs are the other reason: a naval battle on the Tonle Sap with crocodiles eating the losers, a market, a cockfight, a woman giving birth, a man cooking a pig. Point at the panels rather than explaining them. 15 minutes by tuk-tuk from Pub Street, through the Angkor Thom south gate, which is a stop in itself: 54 stone figures pulling a serpent on each side of the causeway, with monkeys along the moat. The climb to the upper terrace is two short flights of modern stairs, manageable from about age four with a hand. Allow 60 minutes plus the gate. The limitation: the central terrace has no shade and is crowded from 9:00 a.m. The [Bayon and Angkor Thom guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/bayon-angkor-thom/) has the gallery panels worth finding. ### Banteay Kdei and Srah Srang The honest verdict: the temple to add when Ta Prohm went well and nobody is tired yet, because it is 5 minutes away, almost empty and flat. Banteay Kdei is a smaller, less restored sibling of Ta Prohm, with long shaded corridors, collapsed courtyards to peer into and a few trees of its own. Opposite the east gate is Srah Srang, a 700-meter stone-lined royal bath with a landing stage where a family can sit on the steps and look at the water. The limitation: the temple is in worse repair than the restored sites, so loose blocks and sudden drops are real, and there are no toilets inside. ### Preah Khan The honest verdict: the temple for a second or third temple morning with children over eight. Preah Khan is a long axial temple on the grand circuit, 25 minutes by tuk-tuk from Pub Street, where the route is a straight corridor east to west through a sequence of doorways that shrink as you go, which children notice. There is a round-columned two-story building near the east side that looks Mediterranean and a garuda carved on the outer wall every 50 meters. The site is flat, partly shaded and quiet before 9:00 a.m. Allow 60 minutes. The limitation: the entrances are long, so a visit involves a 400-meter walk from the tuk-tuk, and the temple has none of the pictorial reliefs of the Bayon. The Preah Khan, Ta Som and Neak Pean guide covers it with its two neighbors. ## The Temples That Do Not ### Angkor Wat at sunrise The honest verdict: not with children under about 12, and not more than once with anyone. Sunrise means leaving the hotel at 4:45 a.m., a 15-minute tuk-tuk ride in the dark, a long walk across the causeway, and 45 to 60 minutes standing in a crowd of several thousand at the north reflecting pool. Then the temple itself, from 6:30 a.m. in the first heat, with the Bakan upper tower closed to under-12s. Children come out of it at 8:30 a.m. having slept four hours and the rest of the day is lost. The version that works: arrive at 7:00 a.m. as the sunrise crowd leaves for breakfast, walk the 800-meter bas-relief gallery looking for the churning of the sea of milk and the heavens-and-hells panel, climb to the second level, and leave by 9:00 a.m. The [Angkor Wat sunrise guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/angkor-wat-sunrise/) covers where to stand if a teenager insists. ### The stairway temples Angkor Wat's Bakan upper level is closed to children under 12 by park rule, and the queue for adults can run 30 minutes. Baphuon, inside Angkor Thom, is reached by a 200-meter raised causeway and a wooden stairway at close to 45 degrees. Pre Rup and Ta Keo are temple-mountains with steep original steps and no rail on the lower flights. Phnom Bakheng is a 20-minute uphill walk for a sunset shared with 300 other people, with a visitor cap at the top. None of these are dangerous in the hands of a careful adult, but all of them turn a temple visit into supervision. Skip them until the children are old enough to climb alone, and skip Phnom Bakheng altogether in favor of the free sunset from the Angkor Wat moat. ### Banteay Srei A footnote, because Banteay Srei is a fine temple for children in one way and wrong in another. The carving is the finest in Angkor and the site is small and flat, which suits a six-year-old. But it is 35 km north, 50 to 60 minutes by tuk-tuk each way, which makes it a half-day for a 40-minute visit. It works when combined with the Landmine Museum, which is on the same road, so that the drive earns two stops. ## Beyond the Temples: What Is Confirmed Open Everything below was confirmed operating in 2025 or 2026 against the venue's own site or a page updated in those years. Venues that appear in older family guides and could not be confirmed are left out. The things to do in Siem Reap with kids guide carries the longer list with more hours and ages. ### Phare, the Cambodian Circus The honest verdict: the one evening every family should book. Phare is an hour of acrobatics, juggling, contortion and physical theater with live music and no animals, performed by graduates of the Phare Ponleu Selpak school in Battambang. The big top is at the corner of Ring Road and Sok San Road, about 10 minutes and $3 to $5 by tuk-tuk from Pub Street. Shows start at 8:00 p.m. nightly, run about 60 minutes with no interval, and finish with the performers in the courtyard for photographs. Tickets by section: A $38 adult and $18 child, B $28 and $15, C $18 and $10. Children's prices apply from 5 to 11, adults from 12. The venue opens two hours before with street food, so arriving at 6:30 p.m. turns it into dinner. Between November and March there are 5:00 p.m. matinees on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, which are the right choice with children under seven. Book on the Phare site a day or two ahead in December and January because Section C sells out first. The limitation: the stories draw on the performers' lives and can involve war, poverty and ghosts, and some productions use smoke, loud sound and strobe, so ask the box office if a child reacts to those. The [Phare guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/phare-cambodian-circus/) compares the current productions. ### Angkor National Museum The honest verdict: the one air-conditioned hour that makes the temples make sense, and the best place to be at 1:00 p.m. in April. The museum is on Charles de Gaulle Avenue, the road to Angkor, 10 minutes by tuk-tuk from Pub Street. Eight galleries follow the Khmer empire from its origins to Angkor Wat, with a room of a thousand Buddha images at the start and a gallery of the kings. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. from April to September and 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. from October to March, last entry an hour before closing. Adults $12, children aged 6 to 12 $6, under 6 free, audio guide $5. Allow 90 minutes to two hours with children, and a stroller works throughout. The limitation: the labels assume interest, so a parent has to narrate for anyone under ten, and the shop at the exit is priced for the uninterested. The Angkor National Museum guide suggests the three galleries to do with children and the five to skip. ### Cambodia Landmine Museum The honest verdict: worth the drive with children over about nine, and the best way to explain the one-legged men selling books outside the temples. The museum was founded by Aki Ra, a former child soldier who cleared mines by hand for years, and it displays thousands of defused mines and shells alongside the story of Cambodia's wars and the children the museum's relief center has housed. It is 25 km north of town on the Banteay Srei road, about 30 minutes by tuk-tuk, open daily 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Entry is $7 for foreign adults, free for children under 13, paid in cash at the gate, with a free audio guide via QR code. Allow an hour. The Angkor Pass is not needed. The limitation: it is a war museum, and a sensitive child under nine can come out frightened rather than informed. The Landmine Museum and APOPO guide covers both sites and how to pair them. ### APOPO Visitor Center The honest verdict: the activity children talk about afterwards. APOPO trains African giant pouched rats to sniff out landmines, and the visitor center on Koumai Road, 15 minutes by tuk-tuk north of town, runs a one-hour tour in English that ends with a live demonstration on a simulated minefield and the option to handle a rat. Open daily 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with the last tour at 4:30 p.m. Tours cost $10 per person, children under 10 free. Book online at booking.apopo.org, because walk-ins wait for the next slot. The limitation: the demonstration is short, 30 to 45 minutes by most accounts, and the content about landmines is the same sober story as the museum, told more gently. ### Artisans Angkor and the Angkor Silk Farm The honest verdict: a reliable rainy or hot hour in town, and a half-day with the silk farm added. The Artisans Angkor craft center is on Stung Thmey Street, a five-minute walk west of the Old Market, with guided tours of the stone carving, lacquer, silk painting and silver workshops daily from 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Children can stand at the benches and watch a block of sandstone become an apsara. The Angkor Silk Farm is at Puok on National Road 6, 16 km west of town and about 30 minutes by tuk-tuk, open 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., where the tour follows the mulberry bushes, the worms, the cocoons and the looms. Neither official page lists an admission price. 2026 listings describe the silk farm tour as free, and travel listings describe the Stung Thmey tour the same way. The same 2026 listings mention a free shuttle from the town workshops to the silk farm twice a day, booked ahead by phone, but the official site gives no times, so call before counting on it. The limitation: both end in a boutique, and the workshop tour is a walk-past rather than a hands-on class. The Artisans Angkor and silk farm guide covers the trip out to Puok. ### Hands-on workshops: Senteurs d'Angkor and Khmer Ceramics For a child who wants to make rather than watch, two venues run short classes. Senteurs d'Angkor, a soap and spice workshop in town, offers palm-leaf box weaving and candle making (one hour each, from age 5 to 7 depending on activity), lip balm and candy making (40 minutes), at $12 for one activity or $20 for two, minimum two people, Monday to Saturday between 8:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., with a free tour of the workshop. Khmer Ceramics on River Road, open 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., runs a two-hour pottery class on the wheel from age 3, from $25 per person booked directly, with the fired piece ready to collect the next evening, or a mug-painting session from $25 that is finished in 15 minutes. The limitation: both are small operations and fill with tour groups in December and January, so book a day ahead. ### Quad Adventure Cambodia The honest verdict: the best afternoon for a child of eight to twelve who has run out of patience with stone. Quad Adventure Cambodia is on Country Road Laurent in Svay Dangkum, with hotel pickup included, and runs tours through rice fields and villages west of town from a 75-minute Easy Ride (departures 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) to a 2-hour-15-minute Discovery Tour with a sunset departure at 3:45 p.m. and half and full days. Children ride as passengers behind a parent at any age the parent judges safe, 14- to 16-year-olds ride with an instructor behind them, and 17-year-olds of adult size can drive alone after a test. Prices are on the company's tour pages and include VAT. One rider on one quad pays $37 for the Easy Ride, $65 for the Discovery Tour, $105 for the half day and $175 for the full day. Two people sharing a quad pay $48, $82, $140 and $240. Payment is in cash, dollars or riel. The limitation: it is dusty in the dry season and muddy in the rainy season, and the 3:45 p.m. sunset departure is the only one that avoids both the heat and the glare. The quad biking guide compares the operators. ### Angkor Zipline The honest verdict: a strong half-day for children from five, inside the forest of the Angkor park. The course runs through the canopy near Ta Nei with a series of lines, sky bridges and a rappel, for guests aged 5 to 80 in good health, with a minimum height around 1 meter. Operations run 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily, with the office open to 10:00 p.m. for bookings. The Silver course costs $49 per person for foreign visitors and the Gold course $79, with no child rate. The company's tuk-tuk transfer from town costs $15 for up to four people. An Angkor Pass is required if you make your own way there and is not required if you use the company's transport from town. The limitation: the longer course takes two and a half hours in a harness in forest humidity, and a five-year-old who freezes on the first platform cannot easily be brought down. ### Cooking classes The honest verdict: good with children from about eight who will eat what they cook, wasted on younger ones. Half-day countryside classes outside Siem Reap run $28 to $35 per person including hotel pickup, a market visit and three or four dishes, over three to four and a half hours, with morning starts around 7:30 a.m. and afternoon starts around 1:30 p.m. Several list children as welcome at the full price. The ones that work for families are the morning sessions in a village pavilion with a garden, where a child can wander between courses. This guide does not name a class, because the two most-recommended family operators of recent years could not be confirmed as running in 2026. The cooking classes guide names the ones that are. The limitation: four hours is long for a child, so ask for the short version or accept that one parent leaves early. ### Kulen Elephant Forest The honest verdict: the option near Siem Reap for children who want to see elephants, with no riding. The operator runs a forest site in the foothills of Phnom Kulen, about an hour's drive north, where visitors walk with retired elephants in the Bos Thom Community Forest. The afternoon session costs $110 per person with transport from town, according to the operator. The limitation: child rates are not published, and it is a half-day of road and walking in the heat. The [elephants guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/elephants-siem-reap-ethical/) sets out what to check at any elephant site. ### Phnom Kulen waterfall The honest verdict: the best full day out with children, if the departure is early. Phnom Kulen is a sandstone plateau 48 km northeast of Siem Reap, 1.5 to 2 hours by car (tuk-tuks cannot climb the road), with a reclining Buddha carved into a boulder at the summit, a riverbed carved with a thousand lingas, and a two-tier waterfall where Cambodian families swim and picnic. The upper fall is shallow and flat, suits small children, and sits beside the picnic area. The lower fall is the big one, around 20 meters, with a basin mostly shallow enough to stand in but with a current in the rainy season. Entry is $20 per person, adults and children alike, not covered by the Angkor Pass, paid at the checkpoint or bought in advance through a hotel. The road up is one-way: ascending traffic 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., then closed, then descending from about 11:45 a.m. Leave town by 8:30 a.m. The limitation: it is a long day on a rough road, weekends are crowded with domestic visitors, and the waterfall is a trickle from March to May. The [Phnom Kulen guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/phnom-kulen/) has the full logistics. Phnom Kulen is also the region where the question of elephants comes up, and that question has its own answer in the [ethical elephants guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/elephants-siem-reap-ethical/). ### Kampong Phluk on the Tonle Sap The honest verdict: the right floating village for children, in the right months. Kampong Phluk is a village of stilted houses 30 km southeast of town, 45 to 60 minutes by tuk-tuk, where the community boat takes visitors through the village and out to the edge of the lake. The boat is about $20 per person plus a $2 community entrance fee, paid separately, and a half-hour paddle through the flooded forest in a small canoe is about $6 per boat, available roughly August to early December when the water is high. Children like the canoe and the houses on 8-meter stilts. The limitation: from March to May the water drops, the village sits on dry mud, the canoe does not run and the boat ride becomes a channel trip. Go on a weekday afternoon in the wet season, and treat the village as a place where people live, not a show. Chong Kneas, the closest village, is the one most guides steer families to and the one to skip. The [Tonle Sap floating villages guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/tonle-sap-floating-villages/) compares the four. ### Wake Park Cambodia and Aqua Land The honest verdict: the confirmed public swim in Siem Reap, and the afternoon for a teenager. Wake Park Cambodia is at 1 ICF Campus Road, about 5 km and 15 minutes by tuk-tuk from Pub Street, open daily 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Aqua Land, the inflatable water park on the lake, costs $12 for an all-day ticket including a life jacket, for children from about six under close supervision. The beach area has a natural swimming lake, bamboo huts, a jungle gym, a mud kitchen for small children and a restaurant with Khmer and Western dishes. Cable wakeboarding is for teenagers and adults with prices on request. The limitation: it is a lake, with the water quality and the bottom that implies, and the inflatables are hard work in the midday sun. ### Angkor Wat Putt and the Angkor Eye Two late-afternoon fillers. Angkor Wat Putt is a 14-hole mini golf course through miniature temples in Veal village, Sangkat Chreav, 10 to 15 minutes by tuk-tuk, open 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., from $5 per adult with cheaper rounds for children. It takes an hour and works from age four. The Angkor Eye is a 60-meter observation wheel on the airport road at Phum Krous, 15 minutes by tuk-tuk, with 48 air-conditioned cabins of four and an 18-minute rotation. The official ticket page lists non-resident tickets from $10 and sorts riders into adults from 12, children 3 to 11 and infants under 3, without publishing the child fare. It opens daily from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., last admission 7:40 p.m. Ride it at 5:30 p.m. for the sunset over the paddy. The limitation: both are small-town attractions, and neither justifies a tuk-tuk ride on its own, so pair them with dinner on that side of town. ### Pools open to non-guests The honest verdict: day passes exist, but the pool lists that circulate are mostly out of date, so check the hotel's own page or call first. Sofitel Angkor Phokeethra publishes a day pass on its website at $15 per adult and $10 per child, with the pool, gym, steam room and sauna. A 2025 pool round-up, updated in May 2026, puts Hotel Somadevi Angkor at $11 for adults and $8 for children and lists several smaller hotels that open the pool for $5 or against a $5 food and drink spend. The fallback works everywhere in Cambodia: walk into a mid-range hotel with a pool at 1:00 p.m., order lunch and drinks at the poolside restaurant, and ask reception. Hotels on Wat Bo Road and the river north of National Road 6 are the ones that say yes most often. The better answer is to book a hotel with a pool in the first place, which the [hotels with a pool guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/hotels-with-pool-siem-reap/) and the [family hotels guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/family-hotels-siem-reap/) cover with the pools that are shaded after 2:00 p.m. The limitation: a pool at a resort out on the airport road is 20 minutes from the temples and 20 minutes from dinner, which with children is two more tuk-tuk rides a day. ### Play centers, malls and cinemas For the hour when it is 36°C or raining sideways. Asia Plaza, on Sivatha Boulevard, has an air-conditioned soft-play area for children aged one to six on its upper floor, with entry at $1.50 (6,000 riel) for the day according to a 2025 family guide, and an arcade. Heritage Walk, the mall on the airport road 10 minutes by tuk-tuk from the center, has Legend Cinema on its third floor, with five halls including a VIP hall, English-language releases subtitled in Khmer and 2D and 3D screens, plus a Starbucks. A soft-play center there appears only in older family guides and is not in the mall's store directory, so do not count on it. Lucky Mall on Sivatha Boulevard has a supermarket for nappies and baby food and a small arcade upstairs. Lemongrass Garden Spa at 105b Sivatha Boulevard offers a 60-minute children's massage for ages 2 to 9 at $10 to $12, which is an unusual way to spend a rainy hour and works. The limitation: these are small-town facilities, and the cinema program is three or four films. The rainy day with children guide orders them by age. ## Strollers, Tuk-Tuks and Getting Around The tuk-tuk is the family vehicle. A standard remork, the covered carriage behind a motorbike, seats two adults and two small children facing each other, with the luggage shelf behind. Larger families take two, or a car. Rides in town cost $2 to $3 by the PassApp or Grab apps, which both work in Siem Reap and remove the negotiation. Drivers price the temples by the day, not by the hour. A full small-circuit day runs $18 to $25 for the vehicle in 2026 reports, and a temple morning from 7:00 a.m. to noon costs close to the same: a 2025 traveler report gives $20 from dawn to noon. The hotel desk will arrange a driver who waits at each temple, which matters more with children than any other factor: a child who hits the wall at 10:15 a.m. needs the tuk-tuk at the gate, not a phone call. Three rules for tuk-tuks with children. Hold the under-fives on a lap, because the carriages have no belts and the sides are open. Carry a sarong or krama to block the sun from the open side. Agree the pickup point with the driver before leaving, because the big temples have several gates and Angkor Wat's are a kilometer apart. The [getting around Siem Reap guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/getting-around-siem-reap/) covers the apps and the fares, and [tuk-tuk, car or bicycle at Angkor](https://www.angkortourism.org/angkor-tuk-tuk-car-bike/) weighs the options for the park. Strollers: bring a light one or none. The town's sidewalks are parked on, the temples are unpaved or paved in uneven sandstone with sills at every door, and Ta Prohm's walkways have steps. A stroller earns its place in the Angkor National Museum, Artisans Angkor, the malls and the airport. A soft carrier for under-twos and a backpack carrier for two- to four-year-olds are the equipment that gets used at the temples. A car seat does not exist in a tuk-tuk, and the cars that hotels arrange do not supply them, so families who want one bring their own and use a car for the airport transfer and Phnom Kulen. The [airport to city guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/siem-reap-airport-to-city/) covers the 45-kilometer transfer from the new airport. Bicycles work for one specific family outing: the flat countryside south and east of town, early in the morning, with children over about eight on their own bikes or younger ones in a trailer. Rental shops along Wat Bo Road and Sok San Road hire bikes by the day, and some hotels lend them. Cycling into the Angkor park itself is 7 km each way on a shared road with buses, which is for teenagers on a cool morning and nobody younger. The cycling the Siem Reap countryside guide has the routes. ## Eating With Children Siem Reap eats early, which suits families. Restaurants open by 6:00 a.m. for the sunrise trade and most kitchens serve all day. The Khmer dishes children accept without argument are fish amok (a mild coconut curry steamed in a banana leaf), lok lak (stir-fried beef with rice and a fried egg), chicken with cashews, fried rice, grilled pork with rice, and fresh spring rolls with peanut sauce. Chili is served on the side in tourist restaurants and can be asked for separately in any. Fruit shakes are everywhere at $1.50 to $2.50 and are the easiest way to get fluid into a hot child. Where to eat with children is a question of geography more than menu. The riverside stretch of Wat Bo and the streets north of the Old Market have garden restaurants with space between tables and no traffic noise, which is where a family with a tired six-year-old should be at 6:00 p.m. Kandal Village, three streets west of Sivatha Boulevard, has cafes with Western breakfasts and air conditioning for the morning after a temple. Pub Street itself is fine with children before 7:00 p.m. and no fun after it: the music starts, the tables fill with drinkers and the street becomes a corridor. The [Siem Reap food guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/siem-reap-food-guide/) names the restaurants by neighborhood with hours and prices, including the ones with gardens where a child can leave the table. Three practical points. Ice is made from treated water in every restaurant that serves tourists and has been safe for years. Most restaurants will make a plain omelette, plain noodles or plain rice for a child without charging for the request. Supermarkets along Sivatha Boulevard stock Western baby formula, nappies and snack brands at close to Western prices, so there is no need to bring a suitcase of them. ## Staying Healthy: Heat, Mosquitoes, Clinics Heat is the problem, and it is a problem in every month. The average daily high is 30.6°C in December, 31.7°C in January, 34.9°C in March and 35.8°C in April, with the rainy season from May to October bringing humidity that makes 32°C feel like more. Children overheat before adults and say so later. The rules: two liters of water per adult and one per child on a temple morning, bought at the gate stalls for $1 a bottle or carried from the hotel. A hat with a brim for everyone. A krama, the Cambodian checked cotton scarf sold at every market for $2 to $3, soaked in water and worn around the neck. Rehydration salts from any pharmacy, mixed into a bottle at the first sign of a headache. Nothing outdoors between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. from February to June. The hot season guide covers what April does to a schedule and the [best time to visit guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/best-time-to-visit-siem-reap/) weighs the months. Dengue is present in Siem Reap year-round and peaks in the rainy season. The mosquito that carries it bites by day, around dawn and dusk, so repellent at breakfast and again at 4:00 p.m. matters more than at bedtime. Children's repellent with 20 to 30 percent DEET or picaridin is sold at U-Care Pharmacy. Long light trousers and sleeves at the temples at 7:00 a.m. do double duty for the dress rule and the mosquitoes. Malaria is not a risk in Siem Reap town or the Angkor park, and the Phnom Kulen day does not change that. Stomachs: the usual rule applies, cooked and hot or peeled by you, with the exception that ice and fruit shakes in tourist restaurants are safe. Tap water is not for drinking. A child with diarrhea needs rehydration salts first and a doctor if there is fever or blood, not a pharmacy antibiotic. Medical care: Royal Angkor International Hospital, on National Road 6 toward the airport, runs a 24-hour emergency and trauma department, an ambulance service and a children's health unit, phone +855 63 761 888 or the emergency line +855 12 235 888. It is the hospital to go to and its prices reflect that, so confirm that travel insurance covers treatment and evacuation to Bangkok before departure. Neak Tep Hospital on 7 Makara Street is open 24 hours with some English-speaking doctors. Angkor Hospital for Children on Tep Vong Street is a nonprofit pediatric hospital founded in 1999 for Cambodian children and is not set up for tourists, so leave it to the families it exists for. For pharmacies, U-Care has branches near the Old Market and on Sivatha Boulevard with English-speaking staff and children's paracetamol, ibuprofen, rehydration salts and repellent, and Angkor Thom Pharmacy on Sivatha Boulevard is the long-standing alternative. The pharmacies and hospitals guide has addresses and what each stocks, and the what to pack guide has the first-aid list for a family. One more health note that is not medical. Children selling postcards and bracelets work the temple car parks and Pub Street, and parents are asked by their own children to buy. Do not. The APSARA code of conduct and every child-protection organization in the country say the same thing: buying from children keeps them out of school. Give to an established organization instead. The [orphanage tourism guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/orphanage-tourism-cambodia/) explains why the same logic rules out the orphanage visits that tuk-tuk drivers still offer. ## The Angkor Pass With Children Children under 12 enter the Angkor Archaeological Park free, with no ticket to buy. Staff at the road checkpoints and temple gates can ask for the passport as proof of age, and a photo of it on a phone has been refused, so carry the document. Over 12, the full adult price applies: $37 for one day, $62 for three days valid within a week of first use per the Angkor Enterprise ticket page, $72 for seven days within a month. Buy online at angkorenterprise.gov.kh and keep the QR code on a charged phone, or at the Road 60 ticket office, 15 minutes from the center, open 5:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The pass is not valid at Phnom Kulen ($20 per person, children included) or Koh Ker ($15). Angkor Enterprise sells separate tickets for Beng Mealea ($10) and Kbal Spean ($5), and recent sources disagree on whether the pass is accepted there. Carry the cash and ask at the gate. The [Angkor Pass guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/angkor-pass-tickets-prices-hours/) has the rest, including the free sunset on a pass bought after 4:45 p.m. Dress: shoulders and knees covered at every temple for anyone who looks 12 or older, and in practice for children too at Angkor Wat, where the gate staff are strictest. A child in shorts has been turned away from the Bakan queue. Light trousers and a T-shirt with sleeves solve it. The [Angkor dress code guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/angkor-dress-code-rules/) covers what passes and what does not. ## A Three-Day Family Plan Built for children between five and twelve, in any month, with a hotel that has a pool. For the version with teenagers, swap the Day 3 afternoon for Angkor Zipline and add a fourth day at Preah Khan and the grand circuit. The [three-day Siem Reap itinerary](https://www.angkortourism.org/siem-reap-3-days-itinerary/) is the adult version to compare against. **Day 1.** 7:00 a.m. tuk-tuk to the Angkor Thom south gate, 15 minutes. Walk the causeway of giants, count monkeys, look at the faces on the gate. 7:30 a.m. the Bayon: upper terrace for the faces, then the outer gallery for the battle and the cooking pot. 9:00 a.m. back in the tuk-tuk. 9:30 a.m. breakfast in town. 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. pool, lunch, sleep. 4:00 p.m. Artisans Angkor workshops on Stung Thmey Street, 45 minutes. 6:00 p.m. early dinner on the Wat Bo riverside. Bed by 8:00 p.m. **Day 2.** 7:00 a.m. tuk-tuk to Ta Prohm, 25 to 30 minutes, in by the west gate. 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. the trees, the walkways, the Tomb Raider doorway. 9:00 a.m. Banteay Kdei if nobody is flagging, 30 minutes, then the Srah Srang steps. 10:00 a.m. back in town. 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. pool and lunch. 1:30 p.m. Angkor National Museum, air-conditioned, 90 minutes. 4:00 p.m. pool again. 6:30 p.m. Phare: arrive for the street food, show at 8:00 p.m., home by 9:30 p.m. **Day 3.** Two options by season. Wet season, August to early December: 7:00 a.m. Angkor Wat for the bas-reliefs as the sunrise crowd leaves, done by 9:00 a.m., then pool and lunch, then 2:30 p.m. tuk-tuk to Kampong Phluk for the stilted village, the canoe through the flooded forest and the sunset on the lake, back by 7:00 p.m. Dry season, December to May: 7:30 a.m. car to Phnom Kulen, 2 hours, Buddha and river carvings by 10:00 a.m., waterfall and picnic 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., back in town by 3:30 p.m. for the pool, and skip Angkor Wat or push it to a 7:00 a.m. visit on departure morning if the flight is late. The plan has three temple hours a day at most, three pool blocks, and nothing outdoors between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. except the drive to Kulen. That is the shape of a Siem Reap that works with children. For rain, replace any outdoor afternoon with the museum, Senteurs d'Angkor, Khmer Ceramics or the cinema, and read the [rainy season guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/siem-reap-rainy-season/) for what the afternoon storms do to the tuk-tuk ride. ## By Situation ### You have a child under five One temple, Ta Prohm, in a carrier, before 9:00 a.m. The rest of the stay is pool, the Angkor National Museum for the air conditioning, Phare's 5:00 p.m. matinee if the dates fall between November and March, and the riverside at dusk. Book a hotel with a shaded pool and a room that darkens for naps, which the [family hotels guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/family-hotels-siem-reap/) sorts by that criterion. ### You have children between five and ten The three-day plan above as written. Ta Prohm and the Bayon are the temples, Phare and APOPO are the two things they will talk about, and Phnom Kulen or Kampong Phluk is the day out depending on season. Keep the Landmine Museum for the older end of the range. ### You have teenagers Add the sunrise at Angkor Wat once, Preah Khan on a third temple morning, the Angkor Zipline and a quad ride at 3:45 p.m. The Landmine Museum and APOPO on the same morning, with Banteay Srei on the way back, is the day that lands. A three-day pass is worth buying. ### You are here in April Temples at opening and nothing else outdoors until 4:00 p.m. The museum, the workshops, the cinema and the pool fill the middle of the day. The Phnom Kulen waterfall is low in April and Kampong Phluk is on dry land, so the day out is a morning at Banteay Srei and the Landmine Museum, back by 11:00 a.m. ### It is raining every afternoon It is August to October and this is normal. Mornings are clear: do the temple then. From 2:00 p.m. the museum, Senteurs d'Angkor, Khmer Ceramics, Legend Cinema or a massage at Lemongrass Garden. The rain usually passes in an hour or two, and the Kampong Phluk canoe is at its best in these months. The rainy day with kids guide has the order. ### You have one day Ta Prohm at 7:30 a.m., the Bayon at 9:00 a.m., back by 10:30 a.m., pool and lunch, the Angkor National Museum at 2:00 p.m., Phare at 8:00 p.m. Angkor Wat gets skipped, which is a defensible choice with children and an indefensible one without them. ## What It Actually Costs Prices in US dollars, which are accepted everywhere. Change under $1 comes in riel at about 4,000 to the dollar. Children's prices apply as noted. Tuk-tuk fares are for the whole vehicle, not per person. | Item | Adult | Child | Notes | |---|---|---|---| | Angkor Pass, 1 day | $37 | Free under 12 | Passport as proof of age | | Angkor Pass, 3 days | $62 | Free under 12 | Any 3 days within the validity window | | Phare, Section C / B / A | $18 / $28 / $38 | $10 / $15 / $18 (ages 5 to 11) | 8:00 p.m. nightly, matinees Nov to Mar | | Angkor National Museum | $12 | $6 (6 to 12), free under 6 | Audio guide $5 | | Cambodia Landmine Museum | $7 | Free under 13 | Cash at the gate | | APOPO Visitor Center | $10 | Free under 10 | Book online | | Senteurs d'Angkor workshop | $12 one / $20 two | Same | Minimum 2 people, Mon to Sat | | Khmer Ceramics pottery class | From $25 | Same | From age 3, about 2 hours | | Phnom Kulen entry | $20 | $20 | Not covered by the Angkor Pass | | Kampong Phluk boat | About $20 | About $20 | Plus $2 village fee, canoe about $6 per boat | | Aqua Land at Wake Park | $12 | $12 | All day, life jacket included | | Angkor Wat Putt | From $5 | Less | About 1 hour | | Angkor Eye | From $10 | Not published (ages 3 to 11) | 18-minute ride, 3:00 to 8:00 p.m. | | Quad Adventure Cambodia | $37 (75 minutes) to $175 (full day), one rider | Passenger with parent | Two on one quad $48 to $240, cash only | | Angkor Zipline | $49 Silver, $79 Gold | Same from age 5 | Pass not needed with their $15 tuk-tuk transfer | | Tuk-tuk, in town | $2 to $3 per ride | | PassApp or Grab | | Tuk-tuk, temple morning | About $20, close to the $18 to $25 day rate | | Driver waits at each gate | | Car to Phnom Kulen, day | $50 to $70 | | Tuk-tuks cannot climb the road | | Water at the temples | $1 per bottle | | Two liters per adult | A family of two adults and two children aged 6 to 11 spends roughly $74 on a one-day Angkor Pass, $56 to $112 at Phare, $36 at the museum, $14 at the Landmine Museum, $20 at APOPO, and $80 at Phnom Kulen before transport. Three days of tuk-tuks and one car day add $100 to $150. Hotels with a family room and a pool run from about $60 a night at the lower end to several hundred, which the [where to stay guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/where-to-stay-in-siem-reap/) breaks down by area and the [daily budget guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/siem-reap-daily-budget/) adds up for the whole stay. ## What Other Guides Get Wrong 1. **Treating Angkor as a day of temples with children.** The adult small circuit, five or six temples between 5:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., is the model most family guides trim rather than replace. One temple a morning, before the heat, is the model that works. The time saved goes to the pool, and nobody misses the fourth temple. 2. **Recommending the sunrise.** Angkor Wat at dawn is a 4:30 a.m. wake-up, a crowd of thousands, and a temple whose upper level is closed to under-12s. Family guides list it as the highlight because adult guides do. Arriving at 7:00 a.m. as the crowd leaves is the version children can do. 3. **Copying old pool day-pass lists.** The pool lists that circulate repeat hotels and fees from years ago. In 2026 Sofitel Angkor Phokeethra publishes a $15 adult and $10 child day pass on its own site, and smaller hotels charge $5 to $11 or a minimum food spend. Check the hotel's page or call before the tuk-tuk ride, or book a pool. 4. **Naming venues that have closed.** Several soft-play centers, a children's restaurant and a cooking school that appear in family round-ups have no trace of activity since 2023. Siem Reap closes and opens fast. A venue is worth naming only if its own page or a 2025 or 2026 source shows it running. 5. **Ignoring the Phnom Kulen road rule.** The road up the mountain is one-way: up until 11:00 a.m., down from about 11:45 a.m. A family that leaves town at 10:00 a.m. for a waterfall afternoon is turned back at the checkpoint. The waterfall is also low from March to May, which the photographs do not show. 6. **Describing the floating villages as a year-round boat trip.** Kampong Phluk and Kampong Khleang sit on dry ground from March to May, the flooded-forest canoe does not run, and the boat ride becomes a channel trip past mud banks. The village is a wet-season outing, August to early December. Chong Kneas, the one most family tours sell, is the one to skip. ## Detailed Guides - [Angkor with kids: which temples, how long, and the stairs](https://www.angkortourism.org/angkor-with-kids/) decides, temple by temple, which ones a child of each age can do and in what order. - Things to do in Siem Reap with kids besides temples is the full list of confirmed activities with hours, ages and prices. - Rainy day in Siem Reap with children orders the indoor options by age for the afternoon the storm arrives. - [Family hotels in Siem Reap](https://www.angkortourism.org/family-hotels-siem-reap/) settles connecting rooms, shaded pools and breakfasts that start at 5:30 a.m. - [Hotels with a pool in Siem Reap](https://www.angkortourism.org/hotels-with-pool-siem-reap/) ranks the pools by shade at 2:00 p.m., depth and distance from the temples. - [Phare, the Cambodian Circus](https://www.angkortourism.org/phare-cambodian-circus/) compares the current productions, the sections and the matinees for children. - [Phnom Kulen](https://www.angkortourism.org/phnom-kulen/) covers the one-way road, the $20 ticket, the waterfall in each season and whether a tuk-tuk can make it. - [Tonle Sap floating villages](https://www.angkortourism.org/tonle-sap-floating-villages/) decides between Kampong Phluk, Kampong Khleang, Mechrey and Chong Kneas by month. - [Elephants near Siem Reap: what ethical means](https://www.angkortourism.org/elephants-siem-reap-ethical/) sets out the criteria for seeing elephants without riding them and judges what is on offer. - Pharmacies and hospitals in Siem Reap lists where to go at 2:00 a.m. with a feverish child and what the pharmacies stock. - What to pack for Siem Reap is the family packing list, from the carrier to the rehydration salts. ## Where to Go Next With the family plan in hand, the next decision is the hotel, and the [where to stay in Siem Reap pillar](https://www.angkortourism.org/where-to-stay-in-siem-reap/) sets out the areas before the [family hotels guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/family-hotels-siem-reap/) narrows them. The temples themselves, the pass and the two mistakes that cost families a morning are in the [Angkor Pass guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/angkor-pass-tickets-prices-hours/). For which month to come, the [best time to visit Siem Reap](https://www.angkortourism.org/best-time-to-visit-siem-reap/) weighs the April heat against the December crowds, and the [Tonle Sap lake guide](https://www.angkortourism.org/tonle-sap-lake-guide/) explains why the floating villages are a different trip in each season. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### Is Siem Reap good for kids? Yes, on one condition that most family guides skip: one temple a day, before 10:00 a.m., then a pool. The temples are hot, exposed and full of uneven stone, and a child who has been dragged through three of them by noon will not want to see a fourth. Planned around that rule, Siem Reap works well for families. The town is compact and low-rise, children under 12 enter the Angkor park free, Phare the circus suits every age from about five, and there are enough museums, waterfalls, boat trips, workshops and play spaces to fill the afternoons without another temple. The hard months are March to May, when daily highs pass 35°C. ### Which Angkor temples are best for children? Ta Prohm, the Bayon, Banteay Kdei and Preah Khan. Ta Prohm has the trees growing through the walls and a flat wooden walkway, and children recognize it from films. The Bayon has 200-odd carved faces to count and a bas-relief gallery with battle scenes, fish and a cooking pot. Banteay Kdei is small, shaded and almost empty, with the Srah Srang reservoir opposite for a sit-down. Preah Khan is a long flat corridor temple with a two-story building that looks like it belongs in Greece. None of the four has the steep stairways that make Angkor Wat's upper level, Baphuon, Pre Rup and Ta Keo hard work with small children. ### Do children need an Angkor Pass? Children under 12 do not need a pass and enter the Angkor Archaeological Park free. There is no child ticket to buy and no reduced fare. The rule is checked at the road checkpoints and temple gates, and staff can ask for the child's passport as proof of age, so carry the physical passport rather than a photo of it. From the twelfth birthday a child pays the full adult price: $37 for one day, $62 for three days used within seven days, $72 for seven days used within a month. The free entry does not extend to separately ticketed sites: Phnom Kulen charges $20 per person regardless of age. ### Is Angkor Wat sunrise worth it with kids? For most families, no. A sunrise visit means a 4:30 a.m. wake-up, a dark tuk-tuk ride, 45 minutes standing in a crowd of several thousand at the reflecting pool, and then the temple itself in the first heat of the day with the upper level closed to under-12s. Children who have slept badly are then spent for the rest of the morning. The better version is to arrive at Angkor Wat around 7:00 a.m. when the sunrise crowd leaves, walk the bas-relief gallery, and be done by 9:00 a.m. Teenagers who want the photograph are the exception. Do it once, on the last temple day, with the pool booked for noon. ### What is there to do in Siem Reap with kids besides temples? Phare the circus at 8:00 p.m., the air-conditioned Angkor National Museum, the Landmine Museum and the APOPO rat demonstration on the same road north, the Artisans Angkor workshops in town and the silk farm at Puok, pottery at Khmer Ceramics, candle and palm-leaf workshops at Senteurs d'Angkor, quad bikes through the rice fields with Quad Adventure Cambodia, the Angkor Zipline for children over five, the Phnom Kulen waterfall, the stilted village of Kampong Phluk on the Tonle Sap, Aqua Land at Wake Park Cambodia, mini golf at Angkor Wat Putt and the Angkor Eye wheel on the airport road. Most afternoons, the right answer is a pool. ### Can you take a stroller to Angkor Wat? You can, but it will spend most of its time folded in the tuk-tuk. The causeways and courtyards of Angkor Wat and the Bayon are paved in uneven sandstone with raised sills at every doorway, and Ta Prohm's path is sand and roots between the wooden walkways. A stroller works on the approach roads and inside the Angkor National Museum, Artisans Angkor and the malls. For temple days a soft carrier or a hiking backpack carrier for children under about four is the equipment that gets used. In town, the Old Market streets and the riverside path take a stroller, Pub Street after 6:00 p.m. does not. ### How hot is Siem Reap for children? Hot enough to plan around. Average daily highs are 34.9°C in March and 35.8°C in April, the two hardest months, with 33°C to 35°C from February to June. The cool season from November to January still reaches 31°C to 32°C by early afternoon. Humidity is high in the rainy season from May to October, when rain usually falls in a late-afternoon burst and the mornings are clear. The working rule: temples from opening to 10:00 a.m., shade or air conditioning from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., outdoor activity again after 4:00 p.m. Two liters of water per adult on a temple morning, hats, and a wet krama around a child's neck. ### Is there an international hospital in Siem Reap? Royal Angkor International Hospital on National Road 6, the airport road, runs a 24-hour emergency department, an ambulance service and a children's health unit. Phone +855 63 761 888 or the emergency line +855 12 235 888. Costs are high by local standards, so check that travel insurance covers treatment and medical evacuation. Neak Tep Hospital on 7 Makara Street is also open 24 hours with some English-speaking doctors. Angkor Hospital for Children on Tep Vong Street is a nonprofit for Cambodian children and is not the place to take a tourist's child. For minor needs, the U-Care Pharmacy branches near the Old Market and on Sivatha Boulevard stock rehydration salts, children's paracetamol and repellent. ### What age is Phare circus suitable for? Phare sells child tickets from age 5 to 11 and prices adults from 12, which is a fair guide to the audience. The show runs about an hour without an interval, starts at 8:00 p.m. and is acrobatics, music and physical theater with no animals. The stories draw on the performers' own lives and can touch on war, poverty and ghosts, and some productions use smoke, loud sound and strobe lighting, so ask at the box office if a child is sensitive to those. Between November and March there are 5:00 p.m. matinees on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, which suit children under seven far better than the evening show.