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I’ve uploaded 3 new Angkor Wat related galleries:
Lunch at the Butterfly Garden Restaurant in Siem Reap:
Current Album: 0714 Siem Reap Butterfly Restaurant Images:

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I have added the first of several galleries of Angkor Wat. Angkor Wat is relatively unknown in North America but is considered one of the 10 wonders of the world. It is the world’s largest religious monument and its well worth visiting. It’s first mentioned in our travel blog here.  
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I have posted a gallery of pictures from our first day in Hanoi.
Current Album: 0702 1st day in Hanoi Images:

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Angkor Wat is simply amazing. It’s unlike any ruins that I have visited before. Huge towering citadels surrounded by dense jungle convey a real mystery. The largest citadel is about 3km across surrounded by a huge moat where the course of a river was diverted to form the moat. Smiling Buddha faces adorn many of [...]

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We are now in Siem Reap, a tourist town outside Angkor Wat, arguably the most interesting ruins in this part of the world. The ruins are something straight out of Indiana Jones towering out of dense forest. But enough of the sight seeing, the real story is about our hotel room and how we got [...]

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