What we know about Yasodharapura, which was abandoned in the sixteenth century, comes from what remains of its walls, reservoirs, roads and above all, its religious buildings, which were built of ...
My destinations were in two categories, man-made places and the natural world. The Galápagos isles and Angkor held the top two spots. Eight years later, I published my first book, whose ...
Angkor Wat is one of south-east Asia's most popular tourist destinations. Last year the complex - which was built over different periods of the Khmer empire from the ninth to the 15th centuries ...
My first trip to Angkor Wat, the 12th-century temple complex dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu, was during this period, ...
The kingdom's de facto currency was rice, staple of the conscripted laborers who built the temples and the ... Khan and the larger complexes of Angkor Wat and the Bayon—and the calculated ...
The collection includes an overall aerial image of Angkor Wat, the crowning glory of the temple ruins from the early 12th century, and photos of gigantic towers with carved faces at the central ...
The Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport is located on 700 hectares (1,730 acres) of land about 40 kilometers (25 miles) east of Angkor Wat and boasts a 3,600-meter- (11,810-foot) long runway.