Unofficial survey of Siem Reap tour guides on the nighttime lighting of Angkor Wat temple

Source: Anonymous Reader from Siem Reap

Good Morning KI-Media,

We have read your news again about the lights that hang on the gallery of Angkor Wat temple. On Saturday 12th June 2009 at 3.00PM, we have seen them remove the light bulbs out of the Angkor Wat gallery. We are very very pleased for their removing it out but we do not know when they will put it back again.

I have interviewed around 200 guides who are my friends who worked as Tour Guides in Siem Reap - Angkor about their ideas of light bulbs along Angkor Wat from 1st - 13rd June 2009.

My questions were:

What is your friendly thought about the light bulbs hanging on the gallery? Do you think that

1. they are suitable to hang on?
2. they are not suitable to hang on?
   

My friends answers are summarized below:

1. 5% want to keep them on for 100 years.
2. 5% shook their heads like a bee sting: Theirs head move to the left while [shaking] their right hands.
3. 90% answered that they are not suitable to hang on.

We do strongly hope that our friends will not bring the tourists to visit Angkor Wat temple at night time. We need to keep our Angkor Wat to have a long life forever for our children.

These tour guides are not in opposition to or against this lighting works but they have already decided that they will not bring the tourists to visit at night time. They will explain the reason to the tourists on the tour bus.

Regards,

(Name withheld for safety concerns)