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Angkor today could be
defined as a fantasy park near Siem Reap
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temples of the gods, floating villages,
Siem Reap tours, great Cambodia pictures of
Angkor Wat, more than only one apasara etc.
Exploring
the ruins of Angkor temples is a great
experience starting with a beautiful sunrise. All
this was the result of a flight to Phnom Penh
and a river cruise from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap
on the Tonle Sap and take a Angkor hotel which is always a
Cambodia Siem Reap hotel.
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The area around is full of relics of past
splendor,
the temples were created with stones carried
in from far away; many were built without mortar,
and all were built without modern technology.
Some of the Cambodia temple structures made it through
centuries others are only more or less piles of
rubble, Angkor Thom has the biggest
destruction.
This Cambodia Temples are close to Siem Reap
and this town is accessible by road from
Bangkok to Siem Reap and by flights to Cambodia
from Bangkok. If you travel Angkor at the
Capital Phnom Penh there are three possibility,
either by bus, the speed boat on the Tonle Sap
River, or the aircraft.
If you are already at
Angkor, some money is available and want a real exceptional
trip take a helicopter tour, a 10 minute flight
over Angkor is about $ 100,- / person and
another to the Phnom |
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Kulen area including
a marvelous waterfall in the mountain
range and plenty of temples to see from
the air is around $300,- for a roughly
40 minutes flight. This "sky trip" is
really worth the money, although its not
quite cheap it opens totally different
view and impressions. To find a hotel
visit the internet, there is everything
available from a cheap guesthouse to the
luxury hotels for over hundred dollars. |
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Angkor
hotels
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are always Siem Reap
Hotels. Early booking makes
sense since in recent years a
tourist tsunami swap over from
China. Most places have free
internet access available.
Over the centuries temples statues
sacred to one religion
(Buddhism) have been removed or
destroyed by followers of
another religion (Hinduism,
Muslims).
Just as destructive
were souvenir hunters in
the past and this is not over
yet.
But
everything has changed today up to around 5000
visitors per day crawl over the
place
including a permanent tsunami
from China, they pay $ 20,- per
day entrance fee. Which makes a couple of people
with the right connection very
rich, it's a hit and
run business to pocket money for
another Luxury SUV and the ones
who lost their limbs crawl on
the street.
To see this extreme
social
carelessness and selfishness
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Angkor Watt
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real disastrous show. Who is on top of
this mélange? yes we know, the UN and
NGO's who always drive the biggest SUV's
paid by western taxpayers. Since the
renovation and maintenance of the old
temples is financed by donations from
other countries e.g. Germany I wonder
where the entrance fee evaporates aside
of paying the employees, at an average
of 3000 visitors per day.
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