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Christina's favorite temple...  
   

Christina's favorite temple...

...I could feel the energy so strong here! and resonated with the feeling here. I call this the Goddess temple as bare breasted women were everywhere here. This temple, like some others also had doorway after doorway in long corridors that came off a center area in the 4 directions suggesting to me that it may have been a place where (female?) spiritual adepts were initated into each new level of spiritual awakening or awareness. This temple was built in the early 9th century. Later ones look very different with fewer or no female figures. Like me, everyone speculates about these places and the people who built them but no one really knows!
Cambodia: Siem Reap to Phenom Penh

April 30th 2008
We did the whirlwind tour through Cambodia ~ about 10 days which is par for the course for tourists mainly interested in Angkor Wat. This seems to be the big draw these days (since the movie Tomb Raider came out about 6 yrs ago and was filmed in Angkor Wat) and Siem Reap - the town near Angkor Wat is becoming very built up with many, many! hotels (from big and fancy to nice looking newer guest ho ... read more
Asia » Cambodia

Cambodian Flag Most Cambodians consider themselves to be Khmers, whose Angkor Empire extended over much of Southeast Asia and reached its zenith between the 10th and 13th centuries. Subsequently, attacks by the Thai and Cham (from present-day Vietnam) weakened the ... ... read more
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