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Angkor Wat Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Cambodia
... tourist attraction - Angkor. Angkor is a series of about 25 ruined temples built over 1000 years ago. The largest and main temple is Angkor Wat, which is still the largest religious building in the world. We'll add photos of Angkor but we're not going to ...
Pre Rup
The warm-toned brick and laterite of this temple made it wonderfully photogenic in the sunset-hour light. It was built in 961 during the reign of Rajendravarman II and dedicated to the god Shiva. I was not the only one at the top for sunset, ...
Phimeanakas
The Phimeanakas, or 'Aerial Palace', was built around 1000, during the reign of Rajendravarman ...
Ta Keo
... Mount Meru, started at the close of the tenth century under the patronage of Jayavarman V and was left incomplete when Suryavarman I came to power after him. The resulting lack of ornamentation sets this grand temple apart from others at ...
Say Wat???
... to the temple. only cost me $8 for the jug. Beer is so cheap here, you should need to pay more than $0.50 per beer!!! Anyway, Angkor Wat was the reason for the early rise. managed to drag my ody out of bed, enough time just to get a Italian shower (Wet ...
Osservando tra i templi.
... divinità..e tu che fai?ora che ti sei prostrato ti dimostri spilorcio?..e interrotta anche dai miei pensieri sulla religione.. Angkor Wat è il principale di un insieme di oltre un centinaio di templi che sorgono du una superficie parecchio vasta. ...
They say the journey is the destination...
... we were refreshed and excited. We had the hotel call a tuk-tuk (which is scooter with a carriage attached) to take us to Angkor Wat for the sunset. Again I was somewhat worried that it wouldn't live up to all the hype. Again I was ...
Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, Ta Prohm
... to go into one of the temples to watch the sunset. I only did the one-day tour. I picked the most popular 3 temples: Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom and Ta Prohm. How many temples can u see before u fell into a coma..From 8 am to 2 pm I believe ...
Wow
Impossible to describe adequately in words. The ornately carved buildings just go on and on. Built 1000 years ago when we were still living in mud huts (some of us in Crosby still are). ...
Angkor Wat!!!
We have been looking forward to today for a while! Today we went to explore the famous temples of Angkor Wat. The place is absolutely huge so we were up at 4 am this morning and left on our bikes before 5am so we had as much time as possible to see as ...
Merry Christmas!
Fantastic local food and dancers with children singing carols in Khmer last night. Secret Santa has been early this morning! Christmas breakfast of Pho (beef noodle soup) and then to the pool! Enjoy your day everyone!! Merry Christmas! ...
koh chang magic garden
we just moved from our original siam hut shack to a 3.75 each a night magic garden guest house its a amzing live music everynight, cinema, TV room, Free boat trips and a stage and party hut with lots of really amazing ppl. It is so nice we have really ...
Amazing Angkor!
I had been so looking forward to our visit to Angkor and I wasn't disappointed. It is an amazing place with thousand year old temples on such a large and grand scale they rival the pyramids! Every temple is different, we visited 10 over two days and ...
The Khmer Temple's of Angkor Wat
Had to get up at 04:00 to gamble on a good sunrise over Angkor Wat but the wholeday was well worth it, really hot day and really exhausting but impressive none the less. Once you 've seen one temple you've seen them all but you've still got to go to them ...
More Temples
Das Abenteuer der Tempel
... schauten wir uns verschiedenste Tempel an, welche sich durch ihre Bauweise und viele kleine Feinheiten von einander abgrenzten. Der Angkor wat,durch seine Kulisse, sowie der to phrom Tempel ,aufgrund dessen Einbettung in die Natur, stachen dabei ...
Siem reap
... mit denen wir auch den morgigen Tag verbringen werden. So viel zum 1. Tag in Kambodscha. Nun liegen wir bereits im Bett, denn morgen früh beginnt der Tag erneut um 04:00 Uhr! Angkor wat bei Sonnenaufgang ... Wir werden sehen..... Gut Nacht ...
Nous voilà aux portes des temples d'Angkor / 1er j
... magie s’effectuera à 7h15, lorsque le soleil apparaitra, merci Mélissa ! Programme de la journée nom des différents temples : Angkor Vat / Thommanon / Chau Say Tevoda / Spean Thma / Ta Keo / Neak Pean / Krol Ko / Preah Khan / Basei ...
The many faces of Buddha
In the ancient city walls of Angkor Thom, through the gate archways adorned with faces, sits the stunning temple of Bayan. This temple features either 48 or 54 (depending on which guide book you read) faces of Buddha on the sides of the towers. The ...
Magical Angkor Wat at sunset
Angkor Wat is absolutely magical. I had no idea such a place existed and it's unlike anything I've ever seen before. We arrived the first evening and were immediately surrounded by the children selling guide books and postcards. Once I left them behind I ...
Very high temple at sunset
This temple has incredibly steep steps and hundreds of tourists came to see the sunset from the top. The way up meant walking close to a bank full of spider's webs covered in the moisture from the air... wasn't completely ...
Angkor Wat
... 5am. Our $20 photo passes taken at this time in the morning for the temples really do look stunning! We went to Angkor wat first to watch the sun rise over the 5 citadels, sat by the lake with everybody else and an ice coffee! It really ...
so much more than Angkor Wat - breathtaking
If, like us, you thought that Angkor Wat was the main attraction in Siem Reap, and maybe even in Cambodia, think again. The Wat is of course utterly breathtaking; we think it ranks higher than any other ancient world monument we have ever seen, and that ...
Temple eaten by jungle!
A very crumbly temple in the jungle which is being torn apart, and also held together, by giant trees... Unfortunately some of the trees are dying because of the number of tourists feet pounding the earth and the roots. The are beginning to restore parts ...
Angkor City
... got a day pass and visited 6 of the many many tombs - Angkor Thom, Bayon, Preah Khan, Ta Prohm (as in the Tomb Raider Tomb), Angkor Wat and Sunset Bakheng. Angkor Wat was amazing, it is so huge compared to the others, and it is well preserved, apart from ...
Angkor 2: The Little Circuit
... kilometers away by raft, which puts it on the scale of the great pyramids of Egypt. Why Angkor Wat has become the national and international face of Cambodia is apparent in its highly preserved state. The jungle has not reclaimed the structure and ...
"Overtempled"
... a labunkban es tobb szaz keppel a memoria kartyan vegeztunk az utolso templommal es szoltunk Shytanak hogy irany haza. Egy Angkor sor mellett probalunk most regeneralodni majd megyunk be a kozpontba vacsorazni meg foglalni a tovabbi utazasunkat. Holnap ...
Jul 15, 2011
Incredible Angkor Wat Temples
... while there was a nice breeze while biking, as soon as we stopped we got drenched. The main temple of Angkor Wat is still in pretty good shape and the intricate stone carvings which are incredible can be pretty well observed. The main ...