Babel is a Norwegian owned and managed guesthouse located in the charming Wat-Bo area of Siem Reap, not far from the old market in town. Together with our friendly and helpful local staff, we offer you comfortable accommodation at affordable prices. We possess great local knowledge that we are more than happy to share with you to make your stay here in Siem Reap memorable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BCTONxQGto&feature=youtu.be
Babel is an intimate guesthouse surrounded by a tropical garden with an outside bar & restaurant area, serving a combination of local and western style dishes. The bar serves a wide selection of cocktails and is the perfect place to kick back with fellow travelers after a long day exploring the temples of Angkor. Contributing to the local community plays a central role within Babel’s company values. We constantly seek to provide benefits from the tourism industry to the local community in Siem Reap, and we are doing our best to cause as little damage as possible to the area in which we operate. By making Babel your home while staying in Siem Reap, you help us make a difference. RESPONSIBLE TOURISM
Babel Guesthouse is run with an active focus on Responsible Tourism. We constantly seek to provide benefits from the tourism industry to the local community in Siem Reap, and we are doing our best to cause as little damage as possible to the area in which we operate.
• Giving back to the local society
We only hire local staff, drivers and guides. They all receive plenty of training, good working conditions, fair salaries and flexible working hours to enable the staff to continue their education. We also provide them with health insurance, English lessons and an opportunity to get sponsored for higher education. We support good projects in town and motivate our guests to join in on different charity projects, like the Giant Puppet Parade. We arrange BBQ night where part of the profit goes back to a local organization or NGO. Occasionally we have kids from an orphanage visiting our guesthouse to perform traditional Apsara dance for our guests.
• Environmental-friendly Guesthouse
We recycle everything we can, we use low energy lights in the hallways, we grow organic fruit, herbs and vegetables in our garden, we recommend our guests to use the bicycles available for rent (the money from this goes to charity), we give our guests information about how to preserve the Angkor temple complex and not remove or bring any rocks from the temple area. Guests are informed to turn off lights and air conditioning when they leave the room, we recommend not using excessive amounts of water and ask guests to reuse their towels when possible.
• ConCERT and Child Safe certified
Babel Guesthouse is a businesses member of ConCERT, an NGO which supports well run NGOs across Cambodia. We are also proud members of Child Safe International. Child Safe is an international network that consists of local and international people, businesses and groups that protects children from abuse and prevents them from being placed in abusive situations. Being Child Safe members, our staff is trained in:
• Making our guests aware of the dangers many Cambodian kids get subjected to. Guests are asked to contact Child Safe if they notice any suspicious activity involving children.
• Giving our guests the information about thinking twice before buying anything from the kids on the streets. By doing this you only encourage them to stay on the streets instead of going to school. There are many better ways to help Cambodian kids to get a brighter future.
• Recommend the guests to visit well run places that focus on the local community, such as the local hospital where they can give blood, the handicap training center, schools, workshops, restaurants, cafés and museums.
