It is very difficult to describe Angkor Wat and give it true justice - it is truly an amazing glimpse of ancient and remarkable civilizations and craftmanship, ultimately you really have to go there yourselves to see why you can spend three days walking around temples and still feel as though there is more to see.
We had really been looking forward to our trip here and it did not disappoint. The Angkors were an amazing people - they occupied large tracts of South East Asia a thousand years ago, and built these quite awesome temples. Whilst the population of London was under 50,000 people, the City of Angkor contained over 1 million people.
(Many scenes from Tomb Raider were filmed amongst the temples)
Angkor was not just a cultural and architectural experience for us. Although the area was less devastated by the Khmer Rouge than some other parts of Cambodia, there are still many remanants from the war, including unexploded ordnance (UXO) - We visited the Landmine museum run by a former Khmer Rouge explosives expert who has now devoted his life to defusing the many dangerous items littering the fields, farmlands etc... It was very informative and has some excellent displays about landmines and some personal stories about victims of landmines and their lives.
