EXCLUSIVEInside the Cambodian hotel with rooms fit for 最高の，を越す-tier 王族 - and it's just minutes away from 'eighth wonder of the world'?Angkor Wat

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'Three 負かす／撃墜する!' trilled my husband, as the children fried in the unforgiving Cambodian sun. 'Only 997 to go!'

Heaven on earth it may be - Angkor is the biggest 宗教的な 場所／位置 in the world with over one thousand 寺s in an area 概略で the size of Orkney - but you'll need stamina, sleeves and a （疑いを）晴らす sense of what to leave out before you start.

寺 （麻薬）常用者s could easily spend a week visiting every 神社 in the 地域 and would be richly rewarded with a 規模 of spiritual devotion seen nowhere else on earth.

But there's no shame in squeezing the big four - the almighty Angkor Wat, the 塀で囲むd city of Angkor Thom, the いわゆる 'Tomb Raider' 寺 T? Prohm, and the enormous enigmatic 直面するs of Bayon - into a 選び出す／独身 day. Starting 早期に is 重要な.

Once Felix, 11, had got over the shock of the 3am alarm call and Rose, 17, and Evie, 16, had got over the shock of the dress code - shoulders, upper 武器 and thighs to be covered - we were off. 巡礼者s 進歩, albeit in an 空気／公表する-条件d リムジン with ice-冷淡な 瓶／封じ込めるd water and a 安定した 供給（する） of lavender-scented 直面する towels. Don't mind if I do.

Fiona Hardcastle and her family checked in to the five-星／主役にする Anantara Angkor 訴える手段／行楽地

Fiona 設立する herself photographing every artefact in her sumptuous family pool 控訴 (above)

The 'perfect 中庭 pool' was a tonic to the 3am starts and long days spent 調査するing the nearby 寺s of Angkor?

Here, 存在 closer to the divine is the 指名する of the game - something at which the Anantara Angkor, our 高級な boutique base for our three-day 小旅行する, excels.

As if the 深い reverberations of a gong 場内取引員／株価 our arrival had not been regal enough, no sooner had we stepped out of our car than we were garlanded with silk stoles, 勧めるd to the spa for a 儀式の foot bath and shown to a 始める，決める of rooms fit for 最高の，を越す-tier working 王族.

The?内部のs showcased 伝統的な Cambodian design so tastefully I 設立する myself photographing every artefact in our sumptuous family pool 控訴.

The hotel is a faithful five-星／主役にする keeper of the architecture 炎上 lit by 隣人ing Angkor Wat.?

On size, symmetry and intricacy of 詳細（に述べる）, Cambodia's iconic 12th-century 寺 has been compared to The 広大な／多数の／重要な 塀で囲む of 中国, the Pyramids and the Taj Mahal all rolled into one. Yet it's strange how this masterpiece of the human mind, 団体／死体 and spirit is often overlooked on the bucket 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of life.?

'No sooner had we stepped out of our car than we were garlanded with silk stoles, and 勧めるd to the spa for a 儀式の foot bath,' says Fiona of her arrival at the five-星／主役にする 訴える手段／行楽地

The 'shock of the 3am alarm call' is 価値（がある） it for sunrise 見解（をとる）s like the above over?Angkor Wat

Breathtaking: The いわゆる 'Tomb Raider' 寺, T? Prohm, is one of the 地域's must-visits

Stranger still given the 緩和する of 連合させるing a few nights in the 地域 with a wider 小旅行する of South East Asia. Our three-night 転換 was part of a longer trip to Vietnam and flights to Siem 得る, the closest airport to the sacred 場所／位置 and a buzzy, chic town in its own 権利, were like buses.

Certainly, we all agreed from the 冷静な／正味の of the perfect 中庭 pool, few experiences had been as spine-tingling as crossing the causeway at sunrise, catching our first glimpse of what is often seen as the eighth wonder of the world.?

And after eight hours of enlightenment in 35-degree heat, the 冷静な／正味の and 静めるing 聖域 of Anantara Angkor left us all feeling we'd つまずくd on the ninth.