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Published: February 28th 2008
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I apologize for the tardiness of this post but I haven't had much free time this week. So this past weekend I took a trip to Siem Reap, Cambodia so I could visit Angkor Wat. It was expensive, but definitely worth the trip. I got to fly into Cambodia on a small prop plane, which was pretty cool and I spend 2 days exploring the temples. Well, it was supposed to be 2 days but I had a really crappy tour guide so it was really only like 1 full day spread out over 2 days. I've already taken care of that with the tour company and I won't bore you with it here. Needless to say, I don't think that tour guide will be conducting more tours anytime soon.
But I was pretty amazed by the temples. The Khmer (pronounced kuh mare) people, which is the civilization that lived in Cambodia and built the temples at Angkor as well as being the cultural origins for most of what is now Thai, were amazing architects and builders. The stuff they could do with simple stone, in my opinion, rivals what the Egyptians did with the pyramids. The carvings and impeccible
stone work was really amazing to see. Even though many of the temples there had been destroyed or deteriorated so much that much of what is there has been reassembled by modern architects, it was still incredible to see what they could do. I consider myself extremely grateful to have gotten to see Angkor and I think it was also a wonderful cultural experience to see a Cambodian town. Siem Reap is a booming tourist town, but it's not the kind of place that comes to mind when you might think of a typical booming tourist town. It was still very small, just with a lot of hotels. It was very different from anywhere I have been in Thailand but I enjoyed seeing it. So I'll save you from the boredom of my words and start uploading photos and let those do the talking.
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