Kampuchea Temple of Angkor: the millennium love (Photos)

Engineer (don't like in front with the so-called "advanced"), a freelance writer (enjoy "free" two words),Germany"Interceram" magazine editorial board English version. Has traveled to 29 countries, had been alone to central Iran Zoroastrian zongtan and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir mountain.

Some people say: the world is not a place like Angkor, the long time in a confused, dazed and at a loss and thinking. Seemingly gently so a words, is it a heavy bump, thus accelerating the I plan to travel.

Classic scene of Angkor

The mysterious smile under the watchful eyes of fear

Has been in the "central country" feeling of the Chinese people the impression, south of those places were often regarded as uncivilized savage.

Since 802 BC Jayavarman II built Angkor Dynasty, to 1181 Jayavarman VII development to the peak, the territory now includes the entireKampuchea, partThailand, Laos, Burma andVietnamThen, according to our late Tang Dynasty to the Northern Song period. The royal palace to see two maps that territory, O Koshi (Dai Viet) only according to the northern Vietnam, Thailand and Laos did not know where to, really is at no two.

During the construction of Angkor Wangcheng, the beautiful and magnificent, it is difficult to describe with the language. I lived for many years in the Great Wall and the Forbidden City, had visited the beautiful.IndiaThe Taj Mahal, more boarded the peerless magnificentEgyptPyramid, since that experience of countless, Angkor came, still no resist by its deterrent.

People say that God and the temple of thousands of years of love, all I see is a force of nature

Engineers think maybe digital better able to explain the fact: to is often seen as a symbol of Angkor Wat Angkor Wat, and built 37 years, the stones from 40 km away to the Lai Chi Shan, the weight of more than 8 tons, exquisite relief of more than 1000 square meters, has more than 2000 very pretty and charming fairy all around, and the moat 190 meters wide.

I asked a friend, to technical equipment and financial resources today, Kampuchea will build a city? Friends are skeptical. Look at the Siem Reap and Phnom Penh temple before those who tried to copy that legacy of the statues and statues, is really ashamed to see their ancestors. This reminds me of the UNESCO leading Egyptian temple transport engineering, more than 50 countries more than 3000 scientists to participate in, unexpectedly in Computational Mathematics and astronomy lost to 3000 before Ramsey J S.

In the city of Bayon (Bayon) to see that a "Khmer smile", 54 pagoda surrounded by carved huge head 3 meters high. The mysterious smile, some people interpreted as king of the kind, but I always feel that he seems to be in a leisurely look look down from a height of several hundred years after the US, don't panic?

In 1432 Siam's Sukhothai Dynasty (Sukhothai) intrusion, Khmer defenders abandoned the city fled to the forest, from Angkor Wat to the lost world for five hundred years, until nineteenth Century, only in the middle to be delivered from oppression.