Siem Reap - Kambodia

Thad er til eitthvad sem heitir ferdathreyta, flugthreyta og svo framvegis, en eftir ad hafa skodad "tyndu borgina" Angkok i heilan dag tha neydist madur til ad skilgreina nytt hugtak, hof-threyta eda eitthvad alika. Angkor er hreint ut sagt otrulegt fyrirbaeri, samansafn af risastorum hofum fra thvi um 9.-12 old, og er dreift um fleiri hundrud ferkilometra svaedi i kring um litla baeinn Siem Reap sem eg gisti i, eda eins og their segja i Lonely Planet: The celebrated temples of Angkor are Cambodia's greatest tourist attraction. The 100 or so temples are the sacred remains of what was once a much larger administrative and religious centre, and were built between the 9th and 13th centuries to glorify a succession of Khmer kings. Most of Angkor was abandoned in the 15th century and the temples were gradually cloaked by forest. The site became the source of scholarly interest in the late 19th century after the publication of Voyage à Siam et dans le Cambodge by French naturalist Henri Mouhot. Efforts were undertaken to clear away the jungle vegetation that threatened to completely destroy the monuments, and restoration continues today.