Cambodia – Angkor wat

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Jul2015
Cambodia, the home of legendary temples, spicy amok, and bamboo just about everything. Its history is rich with the stories of Chinese settlers, Cham invaders, and great battles with the Siamese. You need only visit the temples surrounding Angkor Wat to be transported back to this time and feel the power of the Angkor Empire. However, much of its beauty was sacrificed between 1975 and 1979 when the control of the Khmer Rouge Regime devastated the land and its people. The regime enforced a strictly agrarian policy which induced the evacuation of entire cities to rural settlements and the genocide of all ... Read More
July 22, 2015Lucy Kemp
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