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Angkor Wat

Discovered Treasure: The not-so-secrets of Angkor

Kayleigh Lewis - kayleighroselewis [65]

Every year two million people explore the ancient ruins of Angkor, but how many of these people really see it for all the splendour, beauty and history that it has to offer?

Destinations: Cambodia | Angkor
Topics: Travel | Adventure | Architecture
To Cambodia With Love

Rachel Wildblood Takes a Twilight Picnic at Angkor Wat

To Cambodia With Love - tocambodiawithlove [638]

Ban chao is a traditional Khmer fast food that you can eat in or take away. The food is tasty, but it needs to be said that it's the setting that makes it. After ordering my vegetarian version of ban...

Destinations: Siem Reap | Cambodia | Angkor
Topics: Food
Khom was our tour guide at the Land Mines Museum in Siem Riep

Visiting A Land Mines Museum

MaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,427]

Khom acted as our well informed tour guide at a land mines museum in Siem Reap.

Destinations: Kbal Spean | Battambang | Bokor | Poutang | Thun Mong | Angkor | Siem Reap | Kompong Thom | Poipet | Phnom Penh | Sihanouk Ville | Kratie | Cambodia | Koh Kong | Preah Seihanu | Tonle Sap | Stoeng Treng | Pailin | Bot Sala | Lancang-Mekong River
Topics: 20th Century History | War & Conflict
As we walk through the outer gate, there they are: hundreds and thousands of tourists hang out on every ancient stone around, everyone swinging at least one camera, eagerly awaiting sunrise over Angkor Wat.

Delightful Cambodia – Angkor Wat & Siem Reap with Norah

Hans Meier - hansmeier [235]

In the pitch-black Cambodian night, our tuktuk approaches a lit-up, airport-like structure. "Are the temples now like that", I ask Norah? But it's only the Angkor Wat ticket terminal. Two...

Destinations: Siem Reap | Cambodia | Angkor
Topics: Culture | Food | Travel | People | Adventure | Traditions
Cambodian's young - Their ticket to a brighter future. Bopha from COSI Orphanage.

A Ticket to Hope - Cambodia

Lee Alvin - oldyonfoldy [801]

A returned visit to the capital city of the "Wild wild east" of South East Asia led me to discover new hope for Cambodia's future through her warm and remarkable young people. Its a city bravely...

Destinations: Phnom Penh | Cambodia | Angkor
Topics: Culture | Food | Economy | People | 20th Century History | Shopping | War & Conflict | Architecture
The South Gate Angkor Thom

Visiting Angkor

Ian Miller - fusion07 [255]

To visit Angkor is an almost mystical experience. My first trip in June/July of 2007 left me almost speechless as I marvelled over the beauty of what I found.

Destinations: Cambodia | Angkor
Angkor

Trader Tots of Angkor Wat

Joshua Samuel Brown - jbrown [10,401]

Angkor Wat is home to hundreds of thousand-year old ruins; it’s also the stomping ground of about as many uncannily erudite ten-year olds, children who both speak passable English and can recite with...

Destinations: Siem Reap | Cambodia | Angkor
Topics: Economy | Travel | National Parks | Shopping | For Kids

Jungle Vines and Khmer Finds

Donald Gilliland - dgilliland [4,036]

It may not be on the same scale as traipsing through the legendary cinematic "Temple of Doom," but for would-be Indian Jones adventure seekers, the thrill of visiting ancient Khmer temple ruins in...

Destinations: Cambodia | Angkor
Topics: Travel

Climbing Mount Meru

Thomas Hutchings - tsn_saltydog [355]

(Photo: Sunrise at Angkor Wat. Copyright Thomas Hutchings Photography 2006) In 1970, I flew over Angkor Wat in Cambodia on a mission from Tan Son Nhut Airbase in Saigon (now Tan Son Nhat...

Destinations: Cambodia | Angkor
Topics: Travel

Journey to Angkor

Tom Cockrem - tcockren [1,959]

The morning sun rays blocked by forest trees, I am confronted by a glaucous mass of rocks, like some primordial giant may have dropped them there to see what shape they'd make. As it happened they...

Destinations: Cambodia | Angkor
Topics: Travel
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