The temples of Angkor are quite simply remarkable Mariella Frostrup's heaven on earth
15/10/2007
The Telegraph (UK)
The broadcaster doesn't normally advocate spending hours walking around old buildings - but makes an exception for the temples of Angkor in Cambodia.
The most extraordinary place I've visited is the 12th-century temple complex at Angkor Wat, completely inaccessible during Cambodia's troubled past but very easy to get to now - it's just an hour's flight from Bangkok.
I'm no great advocate of wandering around old buildings - I'm fine for about an hour but then I get a bit bored - but for Angkor Wat I make an exception.
The main temple is like a mini-Versailles and there's another one you have to visit very early in the morning because the sun lights up the many Buddhas' faces at dawn - it's one of the most spectacular things you'll ever see.
Then there's a temple where the trees seem to have grown out of the walls, one of many beautifully strange sights here. If you go, be sure to make an early start - it's worth it, just to see the complex in all its glory. It's just the most remarkable place.
Mariella Frostrup presents 'The Book Show' on Sky Arts at 7pm from October 18.
The most extraordinary place I've visited is the 12th-century temple complex at Angkor Wat, completely inaccessible during Cambodia's troubled past but very easy to get to now - it's just an hour's flight from Bangkok.
I'm no great advocate of wandering around old buildings - I'm fine for about an hour but then I get a bit bored - but for Angkor Wat I make an exception.
The main temple is like a mini-Versailles and there's another one you have to visit very early in the morning because the sun lights up the many Buddhas' faces at dawn - it's one of the most spectacular things you'll ever see.
Then there's a temple where the trees seem to have grown out of the walls, one of many beautifully strange sights here. If you go, be sure to make an early start - it's worth it, just to see the complex in all its glory. It's just the most remarkable place.
Mariella Frostrup presents 'The Book Show' on Sky Arts at 7pm from October 18.
4 comments:
It just makes one wonders how Khmer once was...
A retired Cambodian-American
For me I would say Versailles is a mini-Ankor!
sorry just my own oppinion Mr. Julio don't shut me up!
We heard about The Egyptian's Pyramids, but never one have changed our opions about Angkor Watt.
The world just didn't know it and so were got tucked behind. Did it matter to us? Hell No! We love our Angkor!!! That way we can just have it to ourself, but now ......we have have to share.....
1:01, you needn't to wonder about khmer from the opposite side of the glove. Come on down, walk the ground that they walk on, smell the air that they breed, sleep on the bamboo bed that they slept on, touch the art that they sculptured, and feel their spirit surround you ... . Wouldn't that be a better experience?
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