Project: Cambodia Escapade
TIMELINE
This would be the unofficial notes and planner for my Cambodia trip this June. I already have the etickets to Phnom Penh. Together with four friends, we would have an overnight stay on Kuala Lumpur on June 29th and on June 30, we’ll sleepover at Phnom Penh. At or around 1PM, we will...
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The Great Ruins of Angkor
Angkor Wat would probably be one of the most visited historical sites in the whole Southeast Asian region. This is one place that you shouldn’t miss when you go to Indo-China.
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The Great Ruins of Angkor
Angkor Wat would probably be one of the most visited historical sites in the whole Southeast Asian region. This is one place that you shouldn’t miss when you go to Indo-China. for more travel stories, please go to www.flipnomad.com
Filipina on Flip Flops in Siem Reap, Cambodia (Day 1)
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There it was, the temple complex of Angkor Wat, its “beehive” towers standing ever so proudly yet solemnly in the middle of the forest of Siem Reap, as it has done so for centuries. Other than how immense it was, I was taken by its location, hidden deep in the woods, forgotten and untouched, its existence unknown to the outside world for years and years. I wondered what it must’ve felt like for the French explorer who re-discovered Angkor in the 1800s, to have found all that grandeur and to have undoubtedly been flabbergasted by the staggering thought that a place as massive and as beautiful as that could’ve been forgotten almost entirely by civilization. And while Angkor Wat and the rest of Cambodia’s temples are now renowned all over the world and are visited by crowds of tourists each year, on that quiet, wet and gloomy Sunday morning, standing on the bridge towards its entrance, I couldn’t help but feel incredibly fortunate to have been part of, and to have seen for myself, the “hidden” magnificence that is Angkor Wat.
