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The city

This city has evolved into an organized tourist hub, and when we visited in December 2022, it was quite a revelation for its cleanliness, roads, the Angkor complex, and transport.

There are many hotels at all price points and all ratings and reviews, of course, as expected in one of the most visited sites in Southeast Asia. Quite a few in December 2022 were empty. Many suffered badly in the covid years, and in 2022, we heard that tourism had still not recovered, That may have changed now that China has opened outbound tourism, but in 2022, almost no Indians or Chinese were there, and there was a smattering of other nationalities in the city. Consequently, the city was quiet and not crowded, and it presented itself very differently!