Preah ko

A sobering country

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December 6th 2006
My third and final day in Siem Reap, and it's been a good one. Just a short morning visiting temples (only three small ones this morning) and the rest of the day has been spent in and around the city. We visited the Rolous Temples this morning, and like I said they were very small but none the less quite grand. These ones were more interesting in the fact that each of them had a pagoda atta ... 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