p. v  Preface

To reach Angkor

(p. xvii)

Routes to Angkor

[A much larger, fully readable version of the plan opens here.]

Three routes are possible and January, February and March are the best months:

1. From the West: Singapore, Penang or Bangkok. Trains leave Singapore twice daily (8.40 A.M. and 10 P.M.), negotiating the 469 miles to Penang in 22 hours (arriving 7 A.M. and 6.10 P.M. the next day). Trains leave Penang twice weekly (Mondays and Fridays at 9.40 A.M.), negotiating the 713 miles to Bangkok in 26½ hours (arriving 12.05 P.M. the next day). Steamers of the Straits S. S. Co. leave Singapore Wednesdays at noon and arrive Bangkok Saturday afternoons. Trains leave Bangkok daily at 7.30 A.M. and arrive Aranya Pradesa, the Siamese-Cambodian frontier (160 miles), at 3.10 P.M. Motors negotiate the 101 miles from Aranya Pradesa to Angkor in 3 to 3½ hours.

2. From the East: Saigon. Motors can make the 343 miles from Saigon to Angkor in one day, but a break at Phnom Penh p. vi(147 miles), with overnight at the Grand (41 rooms) or Le Royal (54 rooms) Hotels, is recommended.

3. By Air: From East or West. Imperial Airways leaves Hongkong Tuesdays and Fridays, arrives Bangkok same afternoon. Air France leaves Hongkong, arrives Saigon Saturdays.

K. N. I. L. M. leaves Singapore Tuesdays at 12.30 P.M., arrives Saigon 4.40 P.M.

Imperial Airways and K. L. M. (Dutch) leave Australia, Java, Singapore, Europe and India for Bangkok thrice weekly. Air France leaves Calcutta, Rangoon and Bangkok Tuesdays, arrives Saigon same afternoon.

Hotels at Angkor

1. Grand Hôtel d'Angkor at Siemreap (3¾ miles south of Angkor Wat): 60 rooms with bath. Room and board: 10 to 20 Indo-Chinese piasters a day. Manager: A. Messner.

(p. viii)

Grand Hôtel d'Angkor

2. Bungalow des Ruines, opposite Angkor Wat: 45 rooms with bath. Room and board: 6 to 20 piasters a day. Manager: A. Messner.

3. New Siemreap Hotel at Siemreap (4¼ miles south of Angkor Wat): 15 rooms with bath. Room and board: one person 8 piasters a day. Manager: André Vergoz.

(p. vii)

Bicycle-Ricksha, Grand Hôtel d'Angkor, Siemreap

 p. ix  Fair Warning

Heavy fines are imposed for defa­cing an Angkor monument or for removing any portion thereof.

According to former Curator Henri Marchal (1916‑1933), "One forgets too easily that these ruins were religious edifices where rites were celebrated, and that every religion deserves to be respected. Besides . . . the admirable sculptures . . . receive their full values only from their situation; detached or broken they lose all meaning and are nothing but insignificant fragments."

Leaving Angkor

1. For the West: Motor to Aranya Pradesa (101 miles). Leave Aranya Pradesa by train 9.30 A.M.; arrive Bangkok (160 miles) 5.10 P.M. Trains leave Bangkok Saturdays and Wednesdays at 4 P.M.; arrive Penang (713 miles) Sundays and Thursdays at 6.30 P.M. Trains leave Penang daily at 8.30 A.M. and 9.00 P.M.; arrive Singapore (469 miles) 6.44 A.M. and 5.58 P.M. the next day. Steamers of the Straits S. S. Co. leave Bangkok Tuesday afternoons, arrive Singapore Saturday mornings.

2. For the East: Motor to Saigon (343 miles). Messageries Maritimes steamers leave Saigon for Kobe, via Hongkong and p. xShanghai, every alternate Sunday; for Marseilles, via Singapore and Colombo, every alternate Tuesday.

3. By Air: for East or West. Air France leaves Saigon for Bangkok, Calcutta and Europe Sundays; for Hongkong Wednesdays.

K. N. I. L. M. leaves Saigon Wednesdays at 7.30 A.M., arrives Singapore 12.20 P.M.

Imperial Airways and K. L. M. (Dutch) leave Bangkok for India, Europe, Singapore, Java and Australia thrice weekly. Imperial Airways leaves Bangkok for Hongkong Wednesdays and Saturdays.

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