Angkor Wat for my birthday, a wonder of the man made world. A civilization that at one time was the largest in the world. A civilization that created a temple city whose size and majesty is unsurpassed to this day. What a great idea! And like most of my better ideas, I stole it from someone else. That someone else was a girl I met in Vientiene, Laos. We started talking and she mentioned that she would be in Angkor on her birthday, May 17th, which by happenstance is my birthday too. The coincidence sold me on the plan. Plus when you figure that my last birthday was in PHL airport taking a ground delay, well, this was a marked improvement. The town of Siem Reap is the staging area for Angkor, and I spent a
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