Angkor Thom

Angkor

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May 31st 2015
It felt good to be somewhere a bit quieter for our last stop on our tour and I was happy to find both peanut butter and passion fruits (to go on my morning yoghurt) on the breakfast buffet. Our guide told us that Cambodia has one thousand temples. The last one to be built was the Bayon temple, because up until then (1190), Cambodia grew great quantities of rice and was wealthy. Then drought hit ... 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