Angkor Wat, Cambodia

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 627.

Top tourist hot spots worth the crowds

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Tourists crawl (ползать) over Angkor like ants (муравьи) over a picnic blanket (шерстяное одеяло). But it's worth joining them to register your first glimpse (беглое знакомство) of this shrine-city's (место поклонения, святыня?) awesome (необычайный, удивительный) main temple, the world's biggest religious structure, Angkor Wat, with its lotus-shaped towers (башня) and extraordinary bas-reliefs (барельеф). Angkor was sculpted from sandstone (песчаник) between the 9th and 13th centuries to satisfy the egos of a succession (династия?) of Khmer devaraja (god-kings), providing the ancient empire with the grandest capital imaginable. The site contains hundreds of temples besides Angkor Wat, and is still being reclaimed from the jungle that overgrew it when it was abandoned in the 15th century. Capitol temple is a must-see during the early evening; escape the crowds by taking a mototaxi to the newly opened ruins at Banteay Srei, 25km from the main site.