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A visit to the awe-inspiring Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia is good for the soul
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At 660ft wide, the waterway was so big I assumed it was a river. It wasn’t. This was just the 3.4-mile long moat around the Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia.
Our genial tuk-tuk driver Mr Chantol laughed when I explained my mistaken assumption and said “bigger things’’ awaited. Indeed they did.
As he swung around a sharp corner and the forest cleared, we got our first glimpse of the 12th century stone structure on the outskirts of Siem Reap. “Bigger things’’ barely covered it and my wife Debbie and I stared in a reverential silence, trying to take in the scale of the temple-city.
Pack your superlatives, you’ll need them here. So, some numbers: Angkor Wat, thought to be the world’s largest religious building, is on a 400-acre site, with
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