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Modern Buddhist temple at Lolei Pagoda  
   

Modern Buddhist temple at Lolei Pagoda

Outlying Temple Adventure

May 31st 2011
A huge thank-you goes to Villa Siem Reap for organising this tour of some of the harder to get to temples in the Angkor region. Today my group consisted of four of us, plus our tour guide (the same one I had for the stilted village tour) and our driver. We visited some of the oldest temples in the region, some built prior to 900. The older temples were far less complex or mindblowing as the Ang ... read more
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Cambodian Flag 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
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