Weekend Getaways: Cambodia

When schedules and deadlines lay siege to your sanity, it helps to go to a place that feels lost in time. Spanning five centuries of the Khmer Empire, Cambodia's awe-inspiring Angkor temples have a way of putting modern timetables into perspective. See the ravages of age and the jungle on the crumbling 12th century Ta Prohm temple, and suddenly that lost advertising account doesn't seem quite so important.

Even with a record half-million visitors last year, Siem Reap, the tourism boomtown nearest the temples, feels as languid as the river...