Subtropical rainforests are rarely the home of major lakes, but Vietnam’s Ba-Be Lake, set amid limestone cliffs in the monsoon zone, is one of the best-known. A place of mist-shrouded islets and quiet bays surrounded by native jungle, it is meditatively scenic...

Scattered between the twisting roots of the Cambodian jungle, this site dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu contains the remains of Khmer Empire capitals dating from the 9th to the 15th centuries. Among the most famous of its 100-strong group of monuments is the Temple of Angkor Wat and, at Angkor......