Temples aside, Siem Reap is an interesting town, hitting a huge boom. There are some beautiful French buildings which still survive and a growing restaurant industry. However, there are two sides to the city which we felt a little difficult to deal with - the travel tour industry, those tours that just fly straight in, check into the Hilton and catch airconditioned buses to the temples, failing to line anyone's pockets except those of the five star operators and hotels, and the local people, who are still suffering from decades of tragedy and not benefiting from this boom, but arguably the ones who have the most right to make a dollar or two from their ancestor's temples. Wedding at Angkor Wat One of the craziest things about Angkor is the number of wedding parties that turn
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