Siem Reap & Angkor Archaeological Park
June 15th 2014 It's only a two hour flight from Đà Nẵng to Siem Reap and Angkor Archaeological Park. Before leaving Vietnam for the next leg of our journey we had to take advantage of our proximity to this famous site. The Khmer empire ruled over most of mainland Southeast Asia from around 800AD to the 15th century. Angkor was the capital city of this shifting empire and comprises over 1000 temples in variou
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Tara Cloud
Temple magic!
As usual, great photos and an incisive cultural, philosophical perspective, especially regarding the poverty and begging, sale of endangered animal parts and the transience of the graffiti compared to the enduring temples. I, too, choose the discomforts of weather over the tourists of high season, but my weather has been of the frigid sort--yours sounded scarier. Congrats on exploring so much in those treacherous conditions!