Shop the Old Market Area

Any tuk-tuk driver will know the way to Alley West, a quaint pedestrian shopping lane where Smateria sells covetable and colorful handbags and home décor crafted from recycled source material including motorcycle seats and milk cartons. If you can’t decide what to buy, you’ll have another chance as Smateria has just opened at the Siem Reap Airport. This pedestrian lane continues as The Passage where Paris reared Cambodian jeweler Ly Pisith returned after designing for the likes of Philippe Starck to open bauble shop Garden of Desire in a 1920s French colonial building. Around the corner, find ultra soft cotton tees and dresses block printed with local motifs like water lilies and fishing boats at Three Seasons (The Lane). Pack new purchases in a quirky carry-on satchel fashioned from recycled Khmer rice sacks sold at Bloom Cambodia, a corner store committed to “making trade fair – one bag at a time.”