After 3 days in Phnom Phen, we moved to the next attraction, Siem Riep. Actually, this is the town that is nearest one of the original 7 wonders of the world, the Angkor temples. Like the Mayans or Incans in North America, the Angkor civilization's power peaked long ago. They controlled much of SE Asia, and were architecturally very ahead of their time (just look at the pictures). Around 1000 AD, a succession of rulers started building massive temples to commemorate various gods or people. I know massive means really big, but Angkor Wat, the biggest and grandest of them all, was more than massive. Something like 500,000 people were working on it at the time. There is a mile long moat surrounding it, which was filled with alligators at the time. The temple, well just
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