The World Heritage sites of Indochina, in one table

The first three columns are facts: the name UNESCO uses, the country, and the year of inscription as shown on the World Heritage Centre’s country pages. Where a listing was extended, the later years follow. The last three columns are our planning judgement, drawn from published opening hours and from how we schedule our own journeys. Ticket prices appear only where we found a published figure, and come from the sources listed under each table; they change, so check before you travel.

Three patterns stand out. First, the cultural sites cluster in central Vietnam, around Siem Reap and along the Mekong in Laos, which is why most heritage journeys pass through Hue, Siem Reap and Luang Prabang. Second, the listings span almost the whole of the region’s history, from the Iron Age jars of Xiengkhuang, dated by UNESCO to roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE, to the Nguyen capital that lasted until 1945. Third, the list is still growing: three properties were inscribed or extended in 2025 alone.

For planning, the useful column is “time to allow”. Our fifteen-day journey covers eight of these properties because that is what fifteen days can hold at the pace in the table. The Angkor journey and the Laos journey go deeper into fewer.