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Angkor City and Temples

Posted by Piseth on Tuesday, January 15, 2008, 11:57 with 24 views
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How many more times should i talk about its marvelous and the precious temple of angkor wat? Even though i visited angkor quite many times but it is still the good place where i have to say it is a wonderful place. It is very proud from Cambodia that angkor wat is known to be the great thing of this country.

I can’t believe it if i never see it with my eyes of how the khmer ancient people constructed this temple. I guess, You probably are not going to believe it too if you don’t see it anyway. But it is just happen to be true that this temple existed and stand to show its glories in the jungle of cambodia’s land.

Angkor City and Template

How great is the temple and i really admired the olden days of cambodia and how the people constructed this temple. To imagine, the building of Angkor Wat was build by human being where there were no modern construction tools as today but people can make it with all the nice shape.

Many people are talking about the great temple of angkor wat and the city of angkor and also compelled their words into books that make available to readers as well. On of the great book that talks about angkor wat temple and the city is “The Angkor City and Temples” that i haven’t read it yet. You can also hear wat people talks about it here:

Angkor Cities And Temples is perhaps one of the most beautiful books I have ever had the pleasure of owning. Everything about it beckons the reader to remain absorbed in its pages. The text by Claude Jacques is erudite, well-written, and very well translated. The photography by Michael Freeman is astonishingly good. Not only by virtue of his technical skills, which are considerable, but because he handles the art and architecture of the monuments with a tremendous sensitivity to detail and a glorious feel for the way in which light interacts dramatically with stone. Together, the flowing text and luminous colour images provide a wondrous exposure to an ancient world of great sophistication and profound aesthetic development.

 

 


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