Cambodia was once a great nation called the "Khmer Empire" from the 9th to 15th centuries. Angkor Wat, the world-renowned ...
The lift at Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor is a timber-and-iron cage that groans upward like an artifact itself—one of the ...
At 400 acres, Angkor Wat (“temple city” or “temple that is a city” in Khmer, the language of Cambodia) is considered the largest religious structure in the world. Yet despite its size, it feels ...
Long before the Europeans arrived in Angkor, a Chinese explorer had documented the magnificence of modern Cambodia’s ancient pride and joy.
ANGKOR, Cambodia At the magical temple of Ta Prohm, 200-year-old trees grow from the ruins, their roots embracing the ancient stone walls like giant snakes. Archeologists from India are trying to ...
SIEM REAP -- The visitor waits for sunrise, peering into quiet dark. As the light slowly comes, five soaring towers take shape, silhouetted like grand gods against a faint sky. As more light appears, ...
When I was 23 years old and in India on a Fulbright Fellowship, three friends and I traveled to Cambodia to explore the ancient ruins of Angkor Wat. That was right in the middle of the Vietnam War, ...