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This is a person was to visit Angkor Wat with my famiy and tarvel over there . If you want to travel in time or pretend that you are Lara Croft, this is the place for you.  Ty WAS Lara Croft.  I'm not sure if it is his long dark hair or his tattoos but the resemblance is uncanny.  I continuously had to remind him to stop swinging from vines or removing precious artifacts.
Angkor Wat; a stunning ancient city, was the old capital of the Khmer Kingdom from 802 to 1295.  It claims to be the largest religious monument ever constructed.  I could not envision the size of this complex until I actually walked, well "tucked-tucked" through it with our devoted guide. It takes at least three days to visit this site. There are so many temples to explore.  Our favourite site was Ta Prohn.  As you walk in, you notice that the vines and trees have become  "stone snatchers".  They climb, slither and braid the stones between their octopus like tentacles.  The overgrowth is spectacular.

This is a visitor wandering around the temples of Angkor, arguably the most spectacular archeological site on the planet, I could not help but wonder to what degree the economically impoverished Cambodian people, who survived years of civil war, are benefiting from the tourism boom now underway in their country. It would take a detailed investigation to determine the full answer to this question. However, it was quickly clear to me that someone is getting very rich off tourism here and it is not the local villagers.Consider the numbers: A three day pass to visit the Angkor temples costs $40 per person. The Angkor site is managed by Sokha Hotel Company, a Cambodian government official’s private business. According to a source familiar with the company, Sokha pays a million dollars in annual taxes. Another ten percent of their net income goes to the Aspara Authority, which is the government institution responsible for Angkor’s grounds cleaning, maintenance, trash removal, security, etc. International donors largely fund the actual restoration of the ruins.

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