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 ... (more)