old travel pictures

was speaking to a friend this afternoon about angkor wat, she was asking me stuff about angkor wat. This made me dig out my angkor wat pictures to share with you all.

The mighty mighty angkor, standing tall with its five towers symbolising Mount Meru. If you dont know about the history of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge then you can't really say you`ve been to cambodia. It was a terrible time for all Cambodians, the genocidal Khmer Rouge took over and started mass executions. From my point of view it was a senseless act of psychotism(is there such a word?). Killing your own people to make way for your own benefits. Thinking that everyone should be uneducated and should only be farmers and produce food for the khmer rouge and starve to death.

People there are poor but friendly. You can always see a smile on their faces. To know more about their history read the book - "First they killed my father by Loung Ung".

Here are the pictures. Enjoy.