And now it’s time for, arguably, Cambodia’s main event. Drum roll please… The Angkor temple complex. Angkor was the last capital of the Khamer empire and the 9sq km city is full of temples. Boggling, beautiful, decaying, glorious temples. At the centre of all this is Angkor Wat (Wat is the Khamer word for temple) which is the single biggest religious building in the world. What a Wat! Ahh but it is easy enough to read the stats, and you might even manage to memorize how many temples there are (I didn’t), and know how many faces are on the Bayon temple (I don’t). But, today at least, the beauty of Angkor isn’t just in the facts, or the height of the biggest tower. Instead it is the way that all these things weave together. I’m
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