Two temples in Cambodia. Angkor Wat has 532 tickets and tours to book; Wat Phnom has 23 tickets and tours to book. The table and the two notes below put them side by side; the full pages have what to see, the ticket and the timing for each.
Angkor Wat is not ticketed on its own. Every visitor needs an Angkor pass, which covers the whole archaeological park and is sold as a one-day, three-day or seven-day pass at the official ticket centre on the road out of Siem Reap or online. The pass carries your photo and is checked at the main temples, so keep it on you all day. Whatever tour you book, ask whether the pass is included: most tours leave it as an extra, and you then stop at the ticket centre on the way in.
The bulk of what is sold online falls into a few groups. Sunrise tours collect you from your hotel around 4.30 am, take you to the western ponds for first light and then walk you through the temple before the crowds build.
No ticket for Wat Phnom alone is sold online, and none is needed: foreigners pay a small fee at a booth at the foot of the hill, and Cambodians enter free. The temple stands in a little park in the north of the riverside district of Phnom Penh, so most visitors simply arrive by tuk-tuk or on foot from the riverside promenade, about 15 minutes' walk away.
If you prefer company, Wat Phnom is a regular stop on half-day city tours that also take in the Royal Palace with its Silver Pagoda and the National Museum, usually with a guide and a tuk-tuk or minivan included, and on scooter tours of the city by vintage Vespa, which typically add markets, colonial buildings and street food.
