Siem Reap - Tourist town. The one reason to come here is nearby Angkor Wat.
As far as ancient temples go, this one beats them all. Built for the king Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and part of his capital city, Angkor Wat is the largest, best preserved and most impressive of the Wats in the whole complex, and still remains an important religious centre, now of Buddhism but formerly of Hinduism.
Even for someone like me who has very little appreciation of history, it is a wonderful place to see, even with many tourists, it's still large enough to swallow them, and even with the scaffolding which ruins the classic view across the moat.
Enough of my inane twaddle, on with a few out of the millions we have of Angkor Wat and the other Wats in the complex...
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