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    2Angkor Wat before sunrise
    2The best we got for this morningNOT a pic from this morning - but what we were hoping for. 😢2A few of the many monks living here21Getting blessed by one of the monks with a bracelet for good fortune1Climbed the very steep 37 "steps to heaven" to get to the top4The Tomb raider temple - These trees grew ontop of the temple over timeA HUGE root2These root formations amazed me3

    Angkor Wat, Cambodia

    November 22, 2022 in Cambodia ⋅ ⛅ 86 °F

    We got up really early this morning to see the sunrise on Angkor Wat. It wasn’t as nice as we had hoped. The weather didn’t cooperate so we didn’t have as beautiful of colors as a possible there, but it was still quite a majestic experience.

    Angkor Wat is the largest religious monument in the world. It’s a Buddhist temple, but it was originally built as Hindu. Cambodia as a country converted to Buddhism, so the temple was changed as well. It’s most well known in the US as the temple shown in the Tomb Raider movie with Angelina Jolie.

    There are 300 separate temples at this complex so if left to your own devices, could be here for days to see it all - so we decided to go on an organized tour and see just three of the “best” ones. Great experience.

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