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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
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: Food | Culture | Travel | Adventure | People | Traditions
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Trader Tots of Angkor Wat

Joshua Samuel Brown - jbrown [10,407]

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 | For Kids | Shopping

Jungle Vines and Khmer Finds

Donald Gilliland - dgilliland [4,035]

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
Sunrise over Angkor Wat

Angkor or Wat?

Philip Game - pgame [2,545]

It's the peace dividend: the ancient capital of the Khmer Empire now teems with tittering tourists, even in the pre-dawn darkness as we await the sunrise over the namesake 'mountain temple' of Angkor...

Destinations: Cambodia | Angkor
Topics: Culture | Travel | Architecture
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