Cambodia is one of the countries in ASEAN, and it is in Indochina (Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos). Many centuries ago this country was known as the Kingdom of Khmer Empire. It lasted for periods of time; ‘Funan’ from the 1st to 6th century, ‘Chenla‘ from the 7th to 8th century, and the glorious ‘Angkor Kingdom‘ from the 9th to 14th century. Khmer Kingdom then was very powerful, occupied the wast area of Southeast Asia. Because of the strong Indian culture influence, Khmer Kings built numerous temples in honour of Hinduism and Buddhism.
The ancient capital city of Khmer Kingdom is now called ‘Angkor National Park’ which become the UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992. This complex comprises hundreds of temples; this ancient city and temples have been abandoned since the 15th century, so they become ruined, destroyed and overgrown by tropical forests. The experts have cleared out the trees from temples and did some reconstruction conservation, that makes visitors may enjoy visiting from at least one day to several days. For example, a One Day Tour is to see the most famous temples Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom,’s South Gate, Bayon, and Ta Prohm. A Two Day Tour is to see more temples, especially the pink stone temple ‘Banteay Srei’.
Other attractions are the waterfalls at Phnom Kulen, the Fishing village on the Great Lake Tonle Sap, Museum, stone carvings training centre, or going further out of town to ‘Beng Melea and Koh Ke’.
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