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Angkor Wat Slideshow
Angkor Wat
Travel Blogs from Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Say What? ANGKOR WAT!!
... front of one of the ponds. The crowd has gathered and we all came here with the same aim... to see the sunrise above Angkor Wat! Being a hobby-photographer I borrowed a hi-tech tripod ha ha (thanks Veerle & Lex!!) to be able to take amazing shots of ...
Wats up!
Well, what can we say that hasn't been said before? The sheer scale of Angkor Wat itself(its about a mile square and surrounded by a 200 yd wide moat!), the atmosphere of Ta Proem (with huge cotton silk trees growing out of the walls) and the ...
The Temples of Angkor
... at the temple Pre Rup watching the sun set over Angkor. SECOND DAY After hearing so many people telling us about catching a sunrise at Angkor Wat, we braved getting up at 4am to be taken by out driver to the entrance and then walk in pitch black with a ...
Temple Time
... here is perhaps best described as organized chaos; relative speed and right of weight dictate your pace. Our first stop was of course Angkor Wat, the most famous temple of them all, built in the 12th century. We were awe-struck from the moment we ...
Angkor Wat - What!?
... were awesome. They picked me up first thing in the morning and we were off. We spent the entire day touring around the ruins of Angkor Wat. I was so lucky as my guide had once been a monk so he knew the spiritual meanings behind a lot of the statues and ...
Angkor What?
... although in the 40 degree heat it was suprising! on a bus for about another 4 hours to siem reap (means siam defeated). went to angkor wat and all the others yesterday. temple tolerance got a bit low towards the end as we'd been up since 4am to watch ...
Angkor what?
... . Notre bon Aurelien a vraiment eu du mal a s'y faire au taux de change (un euro pour 4000 ou 4200 riels). En sortant d'Angkor Wat, il a achete une grande bouteille d'eau et une canette de coca et revient fierement vers nous en se vantant de n'avoir paye ...
Temples of Angkor
... ! But did manage to try some local biltong on the way which was a treat! We have ended up having to do two entries here as Angkor Wat was incredible, way to many photos to together with the ones we took in the city. We went out to the temples for ...
Angkor Wat - History in Stone
... I would also pick up a gem of ancient history or more information about a mural or construction. After a little banter I bought the Angkor Wat book for $5 and was able to read about the temples that we visited. The heat was oppressive at times, but we ...
Preah Khan - Sacred Sword
... have roofs (those were built from wood). It wasn't until we walked in that we started seeing the stone carvings that Cambodia temples are famous for... and yes, they are every bit as extraordinary as I imagined. I can't even draw half the ...
Temple for Shiva
... to restore some crumbling areas, Baphuon is a temple dedicated to the Hindu God Shiva. Most of the restoration work in Cambodia are donated by other countries (as Cambodia does not have the money or the resources to do so themselves). Germany ...
Angkored in Angkor
... close to our hotel room. Our two days turned into six and it wasn't until the fourth when we made it out to the temples of Angkor Wat The temples were worth the wait,we took a auto rickshaw driver on for two days to get us round, the plan had been to ...
Angkor Wat and the Tomb Raider Temple!
... we had to get up early the day before to travel to Siem Reap but I was excited as one of the main reasons we came to Cambodia was to see Angkor Wat which is a Hindu temple that took 37 years to build. Its made of sand stone which was pulled to the site by ...
The Floating Villages of The Tonle Sap
... water bath. The ol'e toe infection is getting better, hopefully it will be fine by the time we leave for Northern Cambodia on Sunday. Let's see, yesterday morning our group of seven students left Siem Riep with seven Cambodian students, a french woman ...
Cambodia - Angkor temple
Les temples d'Angkor. Tout simplement hallucinant tout ce qu'on a pu voir lŕ-bas ...
Realizing the Angkor Watt dream
16-Nov-2007 Since I was aware of the world I knew about the Angkor Watt, because I was very curious and interested to know about world outside of the Island Sri Lanka, where I was born and living. To understand you that how big was my curiosity on the ...
Glorious Temples
Ok, so neither words nor fotos can begin to describe the glory and splendor of the temple ruins at/around Angkor Wat. However, I'll try here... I began with the largest & most famous, Angkor itself. Approaching by tuk-tuk and then walking partly ...
Angkor a templomok városa
... volt és hát ment is a business. .....Reggel elindúltuk a három napos templom túránkra elsőként megnézni Angkor Wat templomát és további néhányat melyeknek a nevét lehetetlen megjegyezni. Nagyon szép és impozáns hely, mindenképpen ...
The Angkor Temples
... guard Moeuth downstairs at 4:30am to set off on his motorbike to see the sun rise over the most famous ancient temple in Cambodia: Angkor Wat. Driving in the early morning breeze (Khmers call it 'cold', I call it 'Heaven'), we pass through the jungle in ...
Indie-Hannah bones and short round do Angkor wat
... to take us around Angkor wat. There are 2 routes you can take, we decided to do the outer route today and started at Angkor wat. As stupid English tourists do, we arrived in the midday sun and began exploring, Angkor wat is by far the biggest temple ...
Sunrise at the temples
... the seats. We arrived and agreed to watch the sunrise from the bayon, as we knew it would be less busy. As we drive past Angkor Wat, the hoards of tourists were descending upon it so we knew we had made the right choice! It turned out we were the ...
Angkor What?
... 't know, Cambodia is nestled between Vietnam and Thailand. It was only once we arrived that we realised that the geography and famous Angkor Wat temple was just about all we knew about this developing country. We were on an organised tour and our trip was ...
The Haunting Temples of Angkor Wat
... with the older people having been killed, and perhaps this makes it seem so alive. We truly loved Cambodia. As for Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom, these are wonderful archaeologic sites to see. Once covered by jungle, one ...
Amazing Angkor
... to the fact that only the gods had the honour of residing in stone. Still it is a monumental sight that every visitor to Cambodia has to see, it has been the pride of every citizen for centuries. We joined the flocks of package tourists and our camera ...
I think I was married off...!
... did). I think they change the language depending on what language they hear the crowd speaking. Most people in Cambodia can speak at least several words of several languages, primarily Mandarin, Taiwanese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, and ...
Day twenty two: Angkor Temples
Itinerary: Today continue your sightseeing of Angkor Archaeological Park. Our day: First, this morning...... Angkor Wat: We left the hotel at 0615 and arrived at Angkor Wat at first light. Our guide took us through the forest route, and ...