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• The artisans of Angkor

  
  Andy's Cambodia: www.andybrouwer.co.uk — Authority: 487
  The humble silkworm being bred at Puok for its beautiful thread If you havent been yet, I recommend a trip out to the Angkor Silk Farm at Puok, some 16kms west of Siem Reap. The free guided tours provided by Artisans dAngkor take you through the silk-making process step by step, from the cultivation of mulberry ...
  1 day ago

• AA to the rescue

  
  Andy's Cambodia: www.andybrouwer.co.uk — Authority: 487
  This Dec 2000 photo of the reclining Vishnu at Kbal Spean is the original 11th century carving It was in the dead of night in March 2003 that thieves stole in and hacked off the upper body and head of Vishnu and his wife Lakshmi at Kbal Spean . No easy task as the site of the riverbed and its thousand lingas is a ...
  2 days ago

• Angkor Wat re-opens

  
  Andy's Cambodia: www.andybrouwer.co.uk — Authority: 487
  Access to the top level of Angkor Wat will re-open soon after 2 years of closure You heard it here first okay. Access to the top level of Angkor Wat will begin again on 15 January. Thats straight from the Apsara Authority (AA) spokesman. However, that access will be strictly limited to 100 people at any one time ...
  3 days ago

• What a homecoming

  
  Andy's Cambodia: www.andybrouwer.co.uk — Authority: 487
  Im literally just in the door and got a rare opportunity to watch Leeds United on television, accompanied by a chicken curry of course. Not only that but they beat Man United 1-0 in the FA Cup at Old Trafford and that has got to go down as their best result for years. Ive been a Leeds fan since I was wet behind the ...
  5 days ago

• Kit·blog — Banteay Srei temple

  
  Kitblog — Authority: 128
  Banteay Srei Temple at Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia. Click here or on the image to enlarge . Kit·blog — Posted in Travel . Have feed back? Post a comment . Follow the comments to this entry via dedicated feed or subscribe to global comments feed .
  5 days ago

• What to do in Siem Reap Cambodia

  
  Travel the World — Authority: 131
  By far, the most famous sight in all of Cambodia is Angkor Wat. Dating back 900 years, it has survived the Vietnam War and the Khmer Rouge Regime with little damage. Many tourists come to Cambodia for one reason and one reason only to see Angkor Wat and each year tourist numbers are increasing immensely.
  5 days ago

• Sunrise at Angkor - An Image a Day, Day 2-ish

  
  Kimono Reincarnate — Authority: 118
  For hours today Ive been wrestling with the HDR function on my new CS4 version of Photoshop and just havent got it happening yet. That may have something to do with not really having the right original files to work with mind you... Instead, Ive just cleaned up an image instead. The more I learn about the ...
  6 days ago

• Angkor Wat!

  
  Meandering Memos — Authority: 114
  At long last – Cambodia!  Like I said, it was totally worth the trip.  The highlight, of course, were the ruins at Angkor Wat, but we had a great time the whole weekend.  Go here for more info on our Cambodia trip . Angkor, to give the most superficial of backgrounds, was the seat of the Khmer regime between ...
  6 days ago

• Enjoying the Palace

  
  Andy's Cambodia: www.andybrouwer.co.uk — Authority: 487
  This morning I managed half a dozen hotel inspections and none of them came up to the level of my bed for the night at Angkor Palace . I must find out where they got the mattress cause it was the best nights sleep Ive had in ages. By comparison, my mattress at home is definitely on its last legs. As for the breakfast ...
  6 days ago

• The lull is over

  
  Andy's Cambodia: www.andybrouwer.co.uk — Authority: 487
  As you mayve been aware, Ive been a bit quiet over the last couple of days. Yesterday was spent travelling up to Siem Reap and enjoying the arrival of the new year, whilst today has been spent out and about until now, half an hour before midnight. Kbal Spean and Banteay Srei were this mornings destinations, whilst ...
  6 days ago

• Angkor Wat

  
  Dummidumbwit's Weblog — Authority: 132
  Angkor Wat From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Angkor Wat (or Angkor Vat ) ( Khmer : អង្គរវត្ត), is a temple complex at Angkor , Cambodia , built for the king Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his ...
  1 week ago

• Cambodia! – or – The problem with taking seven hundred pictures on vacation

  
  Meandering Memos — Authority: 114
  … is that you never actually finish sorting, editing, and uploading, and thus can never actually show them to anyone.  I have 130 nearly-identical pictures of Angkor Wat which will never see the light of day because they’re all slightly over- or under-exposed, and most include a bright green construction tarp.  ...
  1 week ago

• New Road Shortens Travel Times Between Bangkok, Angkor

  
  Real Cambodia, Khmer News — Authority: 136
  PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen today inaugurated a new 150 kilometer road running from Siem Reap to Poipet, on the border with Thailand. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has funded the rehabilitation of National Roads 5 and 6, the central component of a larger $50 million road improvement ...
  1 week ago

• Explorer: Where Gods and Soldiers Tend the Border in Cambodia

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 899
  Visitors, including Buddhist monks, make their way along a stone-paved pathway at Preah Vihear Temple on a mountaintop in northern Cambodia.
  2 weeks ago

• My Christmas Update: Reflections After 1 Year Living Abroad

  
  ThrillingHeroics.com — Authority: 109
  Dear friends and family, My year abroad has been an incredible experience. Although I miss home and all the people I left behind, I’ve had the time of my life, met fascinating people, been able to do some incredible things, and have grown in many ways. Since I moved to Thailand about 13 months ago, I have largely ...
  2 weeks ago

• Angkor Wat – Siem Reap, Cambodia

  
  MAS o Menos — Authority: 128
  Angkor Wat is the expansive temple complex in Cambodia built over a few hundred years starting in the 10th century.  It is an amazing place to visit.  It far exceeded by expectations.  I spent 2 days and one evening going from temple to temple and I still didn’t see it all.  Besides the food and my elephant ...
  2 weeks ago

• Exploring Siem Reap and Angkor Wat

  
  Vietnam and Cambodia — Authority: 115
  By Veron Ho Veron Ho Level: Basic PLUS Welcome to Travel Haven, the Specialist in Boutique and Luxury Hotels! From Thailand to Maldives, we encompass a blend of venues and places to visit ... Twenty years ago it would have been quite ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tasmania Local Expert: Will Alderton

  
  The Travel Blog by TravelPod — Authority: 109
  Ever since I invited Will to become TravelPod’s Local Expert for Tasmania, he’s jumped right into the discussions in the TravelPod forums participating not only in his own forum, the Tasmania forum, but he’s also been helping people out with general travel advice and various tips from all points all over the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Introducing the Angkor iPhone app

  
  Cambodia: Details are Sketchy — Authority: 126
  From Travelfish. It’s not available yet, but soon. Check it out.
  3 weeks ago

• EVA LONGORIA: ROOSEVELT GALA GIRL

  
  GOSSIP, CELEBRITY NEWS — Authority: 167
  Seemingly ever having something or another on the agenda, Eva Longoria was among the stars motion up at The President Hotel in Los Angeles on weekday period (December 11). Read this article: Eva Longoria: President Gala Girl EVA LONGORIA: ROOSEVELT GALA GIRL is a post from: GOSSIP, CELEBRITY NEWS
  3 weeks ago

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