Shelly and I travelled to Cambodia back in 2000 and it was one of the most amazing places we've ever seen. The scale of the buildings, the ambition of the architecture was incredible. Places like Angkor serve to remind us westerners (and I'm making a presumption here) that there was another world outside of the west that was often far more advanced, complex and civilised. The cities of Angkor supported millions of people and were well ordered with the kind of services that the west only began to provide in the nineteenth
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Siem Reap The Ta Prohm Hotel. Undergoing rennovation in 2000.
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Siem Reap Typical colonial architecture.
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Siem Reap Art-deco colonial architecture in Seim Reap.
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Angkor Thom The great moat around the Great City. This moat over eight hundred...
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Angkor Thom The causeway to the south gate of Angkor Thom (Great City). Angkor...
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Angkor Thom The massive carved faces of the south gopura or gateway. There were five...
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Angkor Thom The carved faces on the south gate.
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Angkor Thom The towering south gate of the Great City. There were five similarly...
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Bayon The amazing and surreal Bayon temple. From a distance it appears as a chaotic...
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Bayon
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Bayon
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Bayon
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Bayon An aspara (celestial dancing girl) through a window of the Bayon.
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Bayon
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Bayon Shelly wandering amongst the forest of heads.
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Bayon
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Royal Pool This pool was part of the palace complex.
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Phimeanakas The Phimeanakas is a small temple mountain by Angkor standards. It stands...
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Preah Palilay A twelfth century Buddhist shrine.
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Preah Palilay Khmer kids clowning around at the base of a temple tower. These kids...
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Tep Pranam A small Buddhist temple.
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Tep Pranam Typically we hear alot about 'The Lost City of Angkor' as if...
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Imperial Palace A gopura in the Imperial Palace compound.
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Prasat Sor Prat
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Elephant Terrace A view from the Elephant Terrace looking towards the imperial parade ground.
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