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+ BUILT FOR PLEASURE: Phum Baitang does five-star luxury without abandoning its Cambodian roots; perhaps why it won in four categories at this year’s Asia Hotel Design awards.
FERRYING ME through the Cambodian temple of Angkor Wat, my guide, Nin Vo Leak, executes the perfect approach to avoiding the crowds. We enter from the East Gate early in the morning, which means the sun is at my back, and the assembled masses of tourists are gathered at the West Gate nearly a mile away.