Gay siem reap
Here's our guide to homosexual Siem Reap in Cambodia with all the details on where to rest, eat, drink, things to do, and more.
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Angkor Wat is the reason why most people visit Siem Reap. This ancient UNESCO-listed religious complex dates back to the s and is regarded as one of the seven wonders of the world. It's a massive circuit of really impressive temples in the middle of a jungle where nature has taken over. The Ta Prohm Temple is most noticeable thanks to Angelina Jolie sashaying her way through it as that celebrated video game movie personality back in , earning it the nickname the “Tomb Raider Temple”.
Siem Reap is the base for visiting Angkor Wat. We stayed here for 1 week to allow us ample time to investigate the magnificent temples as well as spend some time discovering the metropolis and the gay hangouts. It's super touristic, cosmopolitan, with plenty of restaurants, hotels, and even a small and fun queer scene based around the aptly named Pub Street.
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&#;Naga arranged a driver with a comfortable spacious vehicle to drive us to Angkor Wat and other temples. He negotiated that we were able to park closer to the entrances because of my knees. He was kno Patrick Winn
SIEM REAP, Cambodia — It wasn’t so elongated ago that gay being throughout Cambodia played out under a tree after nightfall. Or perhaps in the darkest corner of a public pool’s switching room.
In much of the country, it still does. “Maybe it’s by the river, maybe it’s in the park,” said Sopheara You, who is 38, Cambodian and openly queer. “Everyone knows the classified places.”
But in Siem Reap, the fastest-growing city in this hardscrabble kingdom, the secret is out.
Once a dingy outpost, the town has built cachet as an emerging travel boiling spot for gay men. And the influx of a Western-style gay scene, replete with cocktail bars and all-male bathhouses, is beginning to nudge the local gay scene out of the shadows of a society where Buddhist open-mindedness is tempered by societal concerns about marriage and reproduction.
Siem Reap’s appeal to gays and straights alike is its proximity to Angkor Wat, a 12th-century temple complex and jewel of the once-mighty Khmer empire. Jungled over for centuries, and more recently unreachable thanks to the murderous Khmer Rogue regime, the temples finally regained their mass tourist appeal in the belated s.
The first wave were backpackers 
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Patrick Winn
SIEM REAP, Cambodia — It wasn’t so elongated ago that gay being throughout Cambodia played out under a tree after nightfall. Or perhaps in the darkest corner of a public pool’s switching room.
In much of the country, it still does. “Maybe it’s by the river, maybe it’s in the park,” said Sopheara You, who is 38, Cambodian and openly queer. “Everyone knows the classified places.”
But in Siem Reap, the fastest-growing city in this hardscrabble kingdom, the secret is out.
Once a dingy outpost, the town has built cachet as an emerging travel boiling spot for gay men. And the influx of a Western-style gay scene, replete with cocktail bars and all-male bathhouses, is beginning to nudge the local gay scene out of the shadows of a society where Buddhist open-mindedness is tempered by societal concerns about marriage and reproduction.
Siem Reap’s appeal to gays and straights alike is its proximity to Angkor Wat, a 12th-century temple complex and jewel of the once-mighty Khmer empire. Jungled over for centuries, and more recently unreachable thanks to the murderous Khmer Rogue regime, the temples finally regained their mass tourist appeal in the belated s.
The first wave were backpackers
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Gay & Lesbian Community!
Utopia's Siem Reap listings are sponsored by |
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