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Originally Posted by Torbek  I also thought the ruins themselves were pretty impressive. I was surprised that I had never heard of it before. I think TAT could well present it as an iconic image of Thailand, up there with Sukhothai and Ayuthayya, albeit on smaller scale. |
Are you kidding?
Seeing as how the place was built by Khmers in the Khmer empire centuries before the Thais entered the region and decided to invade Ankor and push the Khmers (91% of Cambodians are ethnic Khmer) out of their own lands back to Phnom Pehn, as seeing how it is more impressive and better built than the stuff Thais have put up since, this is the last place they are likely to promote.
My advice - don't go there on a national holiday, as you'll see from a couple of my shots.
And I dunno who this guy was, but he was with his extended Thai family of several thai men and 100% thai children and drowning his sorrows with a can of Singa in the back of the family pickup at 8am. Poor sod probably paid for the truck but had to sit in the back when it drove off.
