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Walk or race over the causeway, past the moat and the towers of Angkor Wat.

The moat, the long causeway and the gate at its end, and the temple itself: three levels of galleries rising to five towers.

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What you can do

The temple and its moat

Cross the moat, go through the western gate and follow the stone road to the temple. Its three levels, galleries and five towers are modelled by hand on the measurements in OpenStreetMap.

A race along the causeway

From the far side of the moat through the gate and up to the temple, then along its north side to the east, once, from a start gate to a finish gate.

From OpenStreetMap

The moat, the paths, the ponds and the outer enclosure come from OpenStreetMap.

On the map

A plan of Angkor Wat with 6 places marked
The game's own map. The dashed line is the race. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  1. 1

    💧 The moat

    A moat 190 metres wide runs right round the temple, 5.5 kilometres in all. It stands for the ocean round Mount Meru, home of the gods, and it kept the temple’s ground damp and firm.

  2. 2

    🚪 The western gopura

    The long gate in the outer wall, with three towers. Elephants could walk through the middle. Behind it a stone road runs 350 metres to the temple.

  3. 3

    📜 The libraries

    Two small buildings on either side of the road, called libraries. Nobody knows what they held: scrolls, or sacred objects.

  4. 4

    🐍 The Terrace of Honour

    A cross-shaped terrace in front of the temple, where the king is thought to have met the people. Carved nagas, seven-headed snakes, guard the road.

  5. 5

    🖼️ The galleries

    The outer gallery is 800 metres long and carved with scenes from Hindu epics and the king’s battles: the longest stone relief in the world. Two more galleries rise above it.

  6. 6

    🛕 Angkor Wat

    Built in the early 1100s for the Khmer king Suryavarman II, first as a Hindu temple and later a Buddhist one. Three levels rise to five towers, the middle one 65 metres high, in the shape of the mountain of the gods.

About Angkor Wat

Built
Early 12th century, for the Khmer king Suryavarman II, first as a Hindu temple and later a Buddhist one
Size
The moat is 190 metres wide and the outer wall encloses about 200 hectares
Towers
Five, in a quincunx; the middle one is 65 metres high
In the game
The moat and the causeway, the western gopura and the temple's three levels with their galleries and towers

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