Siem Reap · With kids

An hour of acrobatics, live music and theatre nightly at 8pm, with 5pm matinees on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays from November to March. Tickets are US$18–38 for adults and US$10–18 for children aged 5–11 by section; it is a social enterprise for graduates of the Phare Ponleu Selpak school in Battambang.

A canopy course inside the Angkor Archaeological Park, with a silver circuit of eight platforms and a gold circuit of fourteen, two trained rangers per group of up to nine, and an age range the operator gives as 5 to 80. A good half-day once the temples have run out of appeal.

Twenty-five kilometres out on the Banteay Srei road, so it fits into a temple day with no detour. Open 7:30am–5:30pm daily, US$7 for foreign adults and free for under-13s, with a self-guided audio tour by QR code — plain-spoken and suitable for older children.

On Vithei Preah Sihanouk on the road towards the park, open 8:30am–6pm from April to September and until 6:30pm the rest of the year. Air-conditioned galleries that make the temples legible, which is worth an hour before the first temple rather than after the fifth.

Sunrise and late afternoon are the only comfortable hours in the park from March to June, and the sites have almost no shade. Two short visits with a pool in between beats one long one, and every tuk-tuk driver in town understands the arrangement.