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Bayon stairs

Angkor Wow

January 20th 2010
If I had worried about seeing too many pictures of everyone else's trip to Angkor it was wasted concern. We finally got into the park yesterday and visited our first temples: the Bayon, which was the state temple of Jayavarman VII who ruled from around 1181 to 1220, Baphoun, whose 300,000 stones were carefully dismantled for reconstruction (it was in ruins) in the 1960s, each stone being careful ... read more
Asia » Cambodia » North » Angkor

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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