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Tackled the main temples today. Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom etc. A lot more people than the temples we visited yesterday, but not completely over the top. We did not find these to be nicer or more intrinsic than the less famous ones from yesterday but all together it does show how grand the temple sites around siem reap are. You can easily fill 2 days of visiting & hardly see all of them.
Knowing that they build them by hand, dragging blocks from 50km away down the tonle sap river is a incredible feat, in the same scale as the egyptians with their pyramids...imagine the scale of these building projects...insane!
Anyway, to cut it short, is angkor wat the best? Nah, its big, real big, bigger than the others and its nice, but so are the others. When visiting the angkor temples it is clear you just need to get out there & see a lot, angkor wat isn't enough. Tomorrow is our last day of temple visiting. After that its back on the road towards more remote...yup, temples! :-)
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Tackled the main temples today. Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom etc. A lot more people than the temples we visited yesterday, but not completely over the top. We did not find these to be nicer or more intrinsic than the less famous ones from yesterday but all together it does show how grand the temple sites around siem reap are. You can easily fill 2 days of visiting & hardly see all of them.
Knowing that they build them by hand, dragging blocks from 50km away down the tonle sap river is a incredible feat, in the same scale as the egyptians with their pyramids...imagine the scale of these building projects...insane!
Anyway, to cut it short, is angkor wat the best? Nah, its big, real big, bigger than the others and its nice, but so are the others. When visiting the angkor temples it is clear you just need to get out there & see a lot, angkor wat isn't enough. Tomorrow is our last day of temple visiting. After that its back on the road towards more remote...yup, temples! :-)
Dag lieverds,
BeantwoordenVerwijderenHet ziet er weer allemaal super mooi uit. Vooral die bomen die dwars door en over de oude tempel resten groeien.
Verder alles ok ginder? Hier is het redelijk aan de natte kant, nog geen Australische taferelen maar toch voldoende regen om het beu te worden.
Kus Fem
hallo,
BeantwoordenVerwijderensteps and steps and more steps. Om de goden te bereiken moet je er wat voor over hebben.
Wel zitten er hele mooie foto's bij. Kus, Chantal