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Siem reap and Angkor Wowzers!!!

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August 11th 2009
Blog 14 - Siem Reap and Angkor Wat After a few days on Koh Chang and our visa running out fast we headed for the Thailand/Cambodia border at Poipet from where we had arranged to take a bus up to Siem Reap in North West Cambodia, home to the magnificent Angkorian Temples of Angkor Wat. Poipet is very uneasy on the eyes, ears and nose, a dirty festering border town full of casinos and cheap ho ... read more

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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