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Children of Kompong Phluk

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12 novembre 2007

Kompong Phluk’s skyscrapers

. Somehow templed out, we decide to visit a floating village away from Siem Reap. We choose Kompong Phluk as it’s the least touristy and still unspoilt. We catch a tuk-tuk from Siem Reap and have a nice ride by the countryside until the road gets too...

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11 novembre 2007

More tips

- Try out the fantastic traditional khmer massage at B&7, Massage and Spa. Right at the middle of bar street, just close to D’s bookshop. A Traditional Khmer massage is a bit similar to a Thai’s. It was one of our best massage so far, and definitely the...

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6 octobre 2007

Bas Relief at Angkor Wat

. The bas-reliefs cover the back wall of the gallery of the third enclosure for two metres in height and a total area of more than 1,000 square metres - excluding the two corner pavilions. Limited to the zone that would have been accessible to the public,...

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3 octobre 2007

Angkor Wat

. Angkor Wat, forming a rectangle of about 1,500 by 1,300 metres, covers an area - including its 190 metre wide moats - of nearly 200 hectares. The external enclosure wall defines an expanse of 1,025 metres by 800, or 82 hectares. It is the largest monument...

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2 octobre 2007

Bakong

. In its pyramidal form Bakong presents itself as having been the main temple of Hariharalaya, where the cult of the god king was practised. Here the idol could be elevated in dignity above the plains bordering the great lake, and here the Khmer royalty...

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1 octobre 2007

Phnom Bakheng

. Thirteen hundred metres north of the western axial entrance to Angkor Wat and 400 metres south of the southern gate of Angkor Thom, to the west of the road, one can see a wide track in the forest ascending a natural hill of 60 metres in height. This...

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29 septembre 2007

Bantey Kdai

. At the temple’s western entrance, one finds another example of the spirit of confusion, although less so than at Ta Prohm and Prah Khan, that is characteristic of the monuments built, transformed or completed by Jayavarman VII - and of the crowding...

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28 septembre 2007

Ta Prohm

. Even though the relentless force of the vegetation is the cause of so much damage, the École Française d’Extrême-Orient felt obliged to leave at least one temple in Angkor as an example of the “natural state” that so marvelled the early explorers, while...

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27 septembre 2007

Terrace of Elephants

. The terrace of the Elephants in its present form extends in length for over 300 metres -from the Baphuon to the terrace of the Leper King - though the two extremities remain imprecise in their layout and the terrace itself shows evidence of additions...

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