daveyandsam.com » Angkor http://www.daveyandsam.com Our world tour Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:03:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Angkor Wot http://www.daveyandsam.com/2008/09/15/angkor-wot/ http://www.daveyandsam.com/2008/09/15/angkor-wot/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:57:09 +0000 Davey http://www.daveyandsam.com/2008/09/15/angkor-wot/ Covering more than twenty-five miles of temples, Angkor Wot was built by Khmer kings as monuments of self-glorification in the ninth century and completed three hundred years later.  Not a feeling you get when you go to the taj or the pyramids, but exciting nonetheless. 

In the fifteen century Angkor Wot was abandoned to the jungles after an invasion by Siam and forgotten about until French explorers rediscovered it in the nineteenth century.  Since then, the battled-scarred temples with their beautiful statues, tone sculptures and multi layered towers remain one of the seven man-made wonders of the world.

UNESCO World Heritage Site #6

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The Angelina Joley photo, a scene from Tomb Raider, apparently!

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