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Day Nine - Angkor

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December 29th 2009
Day Nine - Tomb Raiding with the Giant Grosvenor Girl We had arranged two tuk tuks to drive us around the Angkor site the next day. Without going into it too much, Angkor is the ancient capital of Cambodia, built from the 9th century and abandoned a few hundred years later. It spanned an area the size of modern Paris and no other city in the world was as large as it until the 20th c ... 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