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Senmonorom is the capital of Senmonorom District and Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia. Senmonorom while the capital of Mondulkiri is the only town the province has to speak of. With over 7000 inhabitants, 20 guesthouses, 12 restaurants, 2 bars and no post office it is often compared to American wild west frontier town. With local highland tribesmen and women passing your door on foot as often as large government land cruisers all passing depots full of smugglers loot it plays to an interesting crowd of tourists and ngo workers who feed the towns economy. Which in itself is booming to say the least, 2006-2007 year saw Sen Monorom double in size amid a land price boom.

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Cambodia / Angkor Wat

Reliefs
Photo: Reliefs of great beauty decorate Angkor Wat.

Angkor Wat (see header photo) is the most famous temple ground in the entire Angkor plain. It was built by King Suryavarman II in the middle of the 12th century over a period of about 30 years. Like many other Khmer temples, Angkor Wat was built as architectural allegory of the Hindu religion. The central tower stands for Mount Meru, the center of the universe according to Hindu mythology; the top of Mount Meru is considered the home of the gods.

The temple ground is surrounded by a wall and a moat, not only for demarcation purposes, but also because in Hindu mythology Mount Meru is surrounded by other mountain ranges and oceans.

The main entryway to Angkor Wat is a street of roughly half a kilometer length, ornamented with balustrades and fringed by artificial lakes, so-called Barays. This entryway resembles the rainbow bridge in Hindu mythology, the link between heaven and earth, or the realm of the gods and the realm of the mortals.

Angkor Wat is in better structural condition than many other temples on the Angkor plain because it has been converted into a Buddhist temple probably even before the Siamese conquest in 1431, and because it has been used as such continuously after (in the 13th century Buddhism became an important religion in originally pure-Hindu Angkor).



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