Smile of Angkor Showing
The Smile of Angkor Grand Epic Show in Siem Reap is a show about the history and culture of Cambodia. The show tells a story from foundation to prosperity, telling tales and explaining folk customs both past and present. Dancers from the Cambodian Royal Ballet as well as from China immerse you to the time during the Temples of Angkor were built.
The stage show is a fabulous blend of Cambodia’s original culture with the backing of a modern day production team with a high technology laser show, modern lighting and sound system. It combines ancient Cambodian songs and dances with ancient Khmer martial art performances, acrobatics, legends, local Khmer life, the temples of Angkor, Khmer festivals and the Hindu myth Churning the Sea of Milk.
The Smile of Angkor Show is shown in the Siem Reap Exhibition Center Angkor COEX, which is located just north of the Apsara round about on Apsara Road near the Charles de Gaulle Boulevard, it is a must see for anyone taking a Siem Reap trip. The shows take place every evening and include a pre-production buffet dinner. You will be picked up from your hotel at 6pm and then returned to town or back to your hotel after the show at approximately 8:45pm. A fabulous buffet dinner awaits you before the show, which starts at around 7:15 the show itself will last for around 75 minutes and has won a number of awards. The show mixes the very best of Cambodian culture with Cambodian art.
Smile of Angkor not only make a great achievement in Cambodia culture and arts, but make a great contribution to Cambodia people. In Smile of Angkor, ninety percent of the dancers are Cambodian, some of them are orphans or their relatives are the victim of landmine. Smile of Angkor offer them a job, train them to be a dancer. They become the inheritor of Cambodia culture. Smile of Angkor also cooperates with two Cambodia Orphan Schools to support these poor children by donation. Watching Smile of Angkor, you not only enjoy the real culture of Cambodia but can also supports the Cambodian people with some of the performers being orphans and some of their relatives, the victims of landmines.
