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Angkor Wat Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Angkor : LA claque !!
... tombe sur un immense parc, avec une allee en pierre qui mene aux enceintes principales, qui comportent les fameuses tours d'Angkor Wat. A l'interieur de ces enceintes, de longs couloirs dans lesquelles reposent des Boudhas dont la tete a ete tranchee par ...
Angkor Wat
Today we left our hotel at 0500 to view the sun rising over Angkor Wat. It was gorgeous. Yesterday, we saw the sunset on Angkor Wat. The temples are amazing. It is hard to imagine how they could construct these types of monuments with such crude tools. ...
Pre Rup
Lunch over and time to hit the temple trail again ... this time the GrandTour circuit. Wonder how grand they will be? Being the afternoon with the sun well and truly up I wonder how hot will it get? First up was Pre Rup which was built as the state ...
Temples of Angkor
... Angkor were amazing, and definitely worth a visit if anyone is considering a trip here. We wandered through the giant Angkor Wat at sunset yesterday, then also this morning at sunrise. We also visited the city of Angkor Thom ...
Cambodia: Angkor Wat
... that interested you should have a chat with her, she also has a BRILLIANT BOOK WITH LOTS OF PICTURES AND STORIES EXPLAINING ANGKOR WAT IN DETAIL which I'm sure she is currently reading and thoroughly enjoying. Anyway I hope ye enjoy the ...
Wat Not
... it's better than looking like a sex tourist. Each temple, or wat as they call them, is very different from the next. Angkor Wat is the biggest, but the others are just as interesting. One has hundreds of giant stone carved faces, another has trees ...
The jewel in the Crown
Jack convinced us to get up extra early for sunrise at Angkor wat. We were so early that it was still dark and we were the only people there. We made our way into the main temple and in the confusion of the darkness we got the guards to take us up to the ...
Bike riding at the Angkor Temple Complex
... of Angkor Thom) right around sunrise, climbed all the way to the top, and admired the beautiful views of some of the temples, including Angkor Wat, in the distance. I think now is a good time to explain that "Angkor Wat" is just one of the many many ...
Anchor what?
Today is an exciting day. To see the great temple of Angkor Wat. This is pretty much why I am in Cambodia right now. After visiting Borobudur (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) last year, I discovered a love for exploring old stone temples and Angkor Wat is the ...
Shit, Crap, Diahrea
... stuff like that that somebody interested in SE ASian architecture would love. Not to mention of course the world famous Angkor Wat temple complex which is the world's largest religious structure system created during the great Khmer empire. Anyway, ...
Angkor Wat
... photos avec une bonne lumiere et les reflets sur le devant. Des milliers de touristes japonais, chinois, indiens se pressent a Angkor Wat maintenant, surement pour voir le sunset. Il est donc temps pour moi de partir, le ciel etant ...
Angkor
... -tuk driver takes us around the temples of Angkor. After my photo was taken to be put on my pass, I walked into darkness towards Angkor Wat not knowing what beauty lied before me. Sunrise over Angkor Wat, mirroring itself in the pond, it's a surreal site. ...
Cambodia
... in the fields. Despite this the people are amazing and welcoming. My temple guide asks me to tell all my friends about Cambodia and urge them to visit. They need the tourist dollars. Next stop Phomn Pehn. Once descibed as the "Prettist of French ...
The Citadel for women
The Tuk Tuk took over an hour to get to this fantastic temple. the sculptures were just amazingly ornate. My favourite temple by ...
Leave No Stone Uncarved
... and thoroughly enjoying it. I got in Friday night without know much of anything about the place so I bought a Cambodia guide book and an Angkor Wat one and spent most of Saturday doing research. I decided to get a three day pass to Angkor ...
Day 2 of the Angkor Temples
... This time, I went East at Angkor, and entered at the Eastern gate. I went in for the 2nd time to Angkor Wat (having briefly entered via the Western gate yesterday) and took my time walking around. The most impressive sections for me ...
Movin' On
... by bus today because they 'forgot' to give it back to me when we checked out. Great. So, sunset at the famous Angkor Wat temple tonight. Hopefully a full day of jungle temple ruin exploration tomorrow and then a shit-bag ride over what are condsidered ...
Another Overgrown Temple
... was going to end up where I wanted and not get stranded. The temple, Beng Mealea, has the same outer dimensions as of Angkor Wat and was built shortly after that one, but was never anywhere near as built up or ornate. There was a wooden ...
Happy New Year from Cambodia!
... were on an organised tour they had a bus to ferry the group between the various sites, complete with a local guide called Sambath. Angkor Wat is the most famous temple (except from the one which the Lara Croft movie was based in and around perhaps) ...
Angkor What?
Although Angkor Wat is known worldwide as the single temple in all the travel photos, it actually refers to a huge complex of structures built by the Khmer devaraja (god-kings). They tried to one-up each other from the 9th to 13th centuries, culminating ...
Angkor Wat - How did they bloody loose this place?
... sun set. The first temple I visited was (Bayon) which was incredible but the other ones surrounding it were less impressive. When I got to Angkor Wat it was promising to be a great sunset and so I headed to the top of the temple to get a good view. ...
East Mebon
... years better than many other structures at Angkor. "Could any conception be lovelier, a vast expanse of sky-tinted water as wetting for a perfectly ordered temple" (Helen Churchill Candee, Angkor: The Magnificent, The Wonder City of Ancient ...
Ta Prohm
This site is featured in 2001's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. It was built in 1186 during the reign of Jayavarman II. I did not come to see it so much for the history as to see the shifting battle with Nature that has taken place here over ...
Spean Thma
I included this site in my itinerary because it was once a bridge and... I love bridges. The piers are huge and the spans tiny because they are corbelled. The builders probably did not consult any hydrologists to determine how this might ...
Prasat Kravan
... . After that, it began to decline but was still powerful in the region until the fifteenth century. Angkor was the centre of the Empire's power. The ancient Khmers were Hindu but eventually converted to Buddhism. This ...
Angkor Wat - Sunset
This is it. The main attraction. Built in the first half of the twelfth century during the reign of Suryavarman II, this is the mainstay of the Cambodian tourism industry and is featured on the country's flag. The 1024-by-802-metre ...
Steine
... den man aus vielen Filmen kennt (Tomb Raider oder Indiana Jones), mit Baeumen ueberwachsen, riesige Wurzeln auf den Steinmauern. Unsere Tour endete wieder vor Angkor Wat. Ein schoenes Sonnenuntergangfoto wurde uns von den Wolken leider nicht ...