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# Siem Reap
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/photos/siem-reap/
- Published: 2014-03-16T18:50:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-06T14:16:32.000Z
- Description: Siem Reap is more than just a gateway to the temples of Angkor and the floating villages on the Tonlé Sap Lake. It's actually quite a nice town.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Photography

Siem Reap is more than just a gateway to the temples of Angkor and the floating villages on the Tonlé Sap Lake. It's actually quite a nice town. To get a taste of the real Cambodia I visited the Psar Leu Market, the largest and most authentic market in Siem Reap. What I love about markets, at least in Asia and the Middle East, is that there is so much going on and everybody just goes about doing their business while I'm taking photos.

![Street corner with some street stalls in Siem Reap](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/siem-reap-1.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/siem-reap-6.jpg)

Just an ordinary street in Siem Reap

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/siem-reap-2.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/siem-reap-3.jpg)

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Street stalls in Siem Reap

![Psar Leu Market, Siem Reap](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/siem-reap-7.jpg)

At the Psar Leu Market

![Vegetable stall at the Psar Leu Market in Siem Reap, Cambodia](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/siem-reap-8.jpg)

![Fresh fish at the Psar Leu Market in Siem Reap, Cambodia](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/siem-reap-12.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/siem-reap-10.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/siem-reap-11.jpg)

Fruit and vegetables stalls at the Psar Leu Market in Siem Reap

![Psar Leu Market, Siem Reap](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/siem-reap-16.jpg)

Occasionally the vendors wave a plastic bag on a stick to get rid of the flies

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/siem-reap-14.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/siem-reap-17.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/siem-reap-18.jpg)

Notice also the care the vendors take to display their produce

![Butcher at the Psar Leu Market in Siem Reap, Cambodia](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/siem-reap-13.jpg)

![Fish stall at the Psar Leu Market in Siem Reap, Cambodia](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/siem-reap-19.jpg)

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