Ta Prohm, where the jungle has taken over and the roots hold the temples together
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Most Cambodians consider themselves to be Khmers, whose Angkor Empire extended over much of Southeast Asia and reached its zenith between the 10th and 13th centuries. Subsequently, attacks by the Thai and Cham (from present-day Vietnam) weakened the... [read more]
Most Cambodians consider themselves to be Khmers, whose Angkor Empire extended over much of Southeast Asia and reached its zenith between the 10th and 13th centuries. Subsequently, attacks by the Thai and Cham (from present-day Vietnam) weakened the... [read more] Blog: Indiana Jones and the Temples of Gloom (AKA Angkor Amazingness)
Date: November 6th 2009
Date: November 6th 2009
November 2nd to November 6th 2009 - Siem Reap, Bangkok
I cannot quite bring myself to believe that this is the very final day of this trip. The final day of actual trip-ness I mean, I don't count tomorrow, which will be a very long bus trip to Bangkok and my third and final night sleeping in the airport, nor the day after, which will consist of an even longer plane trip home. As alway ... read moreComment on Ta Prohm, where the jungle has taken over and the roots hold the temples together
This blog started, as do so many others, with an attempt to let parents and friends know what I was up to during my first ever trip outside of Western Europe: four months in India in inevitable post-uni gap yah. Unfortunately, after a near miss with the bombs in Mumbai in November 2008 my mother refused to read any more blogs as they kept giving her panic attacks...
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