{"id":56,"date":"2007-07-01T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2007-08-01T02:42:45","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T14:42:45","slug":"angkor-wat-siem-reap-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dawn arose, for an early start from Siem Reap to the majestic Angkor Wat temple. It&#8217;s the worlds&#8217; largest religious building, with more stone than the Great Pryamid of Egypt. Words or even photos cannot describe the scale of the building and surrounding walls and moat. More info can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angkor_Wat\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of tourists littered the walkways, and by the cliched sunrise photo position by the small lake. This made photo opportunities very limited, however crowds soon dispersed within 30 minutes. Few dared to climb up the dangerously steep rock walkways, which gave impressive views around the area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1110edit.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1110editsm.jpg\" title=\"Angkor Wat Sunrise\" alt=\"Angkor Wat Sunrise\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLack of a sunrise, but the structures certainly make up for it<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1111.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1111sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNote the restoration taking place (was edited out in first photo)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1144.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1144sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNorth-West tower of the inner gallery<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1154.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1154sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLooking North from the inner gallery<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1160.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1160sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnother view, the scale simply cannot be imagined<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1172.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1172sm.jpg\" title=\"Ruins of Angkor Wat\" alt=\"Ruins of Angkor Wat\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWestward to the entrance of Angkor Wat<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1173.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1173sm.jpg\" height=\"267\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1174.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1174sm.jpg\" title=\"Greenery around Angkor Wat\" alt=\"Greenery around Angkor Wat\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThick jungle surrounds the outer buildings<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1216.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2007\/1A6A1216sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawn arose, for an early start from Siem Reap to the majestic Angkor Wat temple. It&#8217;s the worlds&#8217; largest religious building, with more stone than the Great Pryamid of Egypt. Words or even photos cannot describe the scale of the building and surrounding walls and moat. More info can be found on Wikipedia. Hundreds of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-landscape","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}