Wow what a sweatfest trying to be a tomb raider. Spent the day at the temples of Angkor, the largest of its kind in the world. A bit over a thousand years ago the whole area was ruled by the Khmer empire. They built huge temples, cities, monuments, shrines, reservoirs, rice paddies and more on a grander than grand scale. The good times rolled for over 500 years until war, or perhaps religious changes or just a general decline in infrastructure led the population to scatter in the 15th century. The temples are spread over hundreds of square kilometres and are half eaten by the jungle today. Hired a tuk tuk driver for the day to take me around and wait while I visited each temple. Started with the biggest single temple, Angkor Wat (Wat=temple). Wow
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