Wat a wonderful time to visit

Time for recovery: Tourists visiting the Angkor Wat temple complex, a Unesco World Heritage Site, in Siem Reap province. — AFP

As dawn breaks, foreign tourists gather by the ancient towers of Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, some of the lucky few to see the World Heritage Site with the crowds thin as the country recovers from the coronavirus.

Hopes are high that the temple complex, recently revitalised from repair work, will spearhead a recovery in tourism after the South-East Asian nation began re-opening to travellers last November.