Angkor who? Angkor Wat, that’s who. Cambodia, January, 2017 By 3pm I was touching down at Siem Reap International Airport, my port of entry into Cambodia. A small but extremely efficient place and I was thru customs and immigration in record time. It was quite warm around 92f, but at least the humidity was tolerable, and just a short 15-minute bus ride to my hotel, Angkor Paradise. Tonight, a traditional Cambodian dinner combined with an Apsara show, performed by boys and girls from a local orphanage, who go to school during the day and earn money by dancing at night. Khmer classical dance is derived from Indian court dance, which traces its origins to the Apsarases of Hindu mythology, heavenly female nymphs, who were born to dance for the gods. At the heart of the classical
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