angkorwat19
Jun 1 2004, 02:21 AM
dalawapo
Jun 1 2004, 03:02 AM
that is all so very pretty... you khmer should be very proud!! i am even awe strucked... i feel inappropriate for even inturrpting the mirad of beautiful imagies. but hey at least this post doesnt double post for you. if you want i can post again inbtween more pics

with more of my wows.
starangels81
Jun 1 2004, 05:55 AM
i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! those picture are very beautiful.......... angkorwat looked to nice at night time with all those lights.....
tattra
Jun 1 2004, 05:59 AM
Wow, these are some of the most beautiful pictures I've ever seen. Thanks Angkorwat19.
holamon
Jun 1 2004, 07:48 AM
Sorry to go off topic. But tattra do you have some Khmer connection. You seems to be pretty well versed when it comes to things about Cambodia. Hey, just want to let you know that you seem to be very a nice guy/girl. Sometime when the flame wars are going on. You still keep your calm. Cheer.
malaccan
Jun 1 2004, 08:30 AM
| QUOTE (tattra @ Jun 1 2004, 06:59 AM) |
| Wow, these are some of the most beautiful pictures I've ever seen. Thanks Angkorwat19. |
Ditto. Beautiful beautiful beautiful. Thanx for sharing angkorwat19. Those pictures will be hard to top.
RockHeart
Jun 1 2004, 09:27 AM
| QUOTE (holamon @ Jun 1 2004, 08:48 AM) |
| Sorry to go off topic. But tattra do you have some Khmer connection. You seems to pretty well verse when it comes to things about Cambodia. Hey, just want to let you know that you seem to be very a nice guy/girl. Sometime when the flame wars are going on. You still keep your calm. Cheer. |
I can tell you that Tattra is a intellectual person!! He is a mutual respect, he is mutual discipline and he is mutual communication to all nation!!! You should proud and encourage for him!!! Its not like some of you all show up too much about your personality as you are better than another!!! Actually, you are death, bastard, and devil at all...
Go back to the topic!!
WOW!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! The AngKoR Wat is my wonderful Land!! The AngKoR is a beautiful Place for our KhmerPeople!! The AngKoR Wat is a Paramount of Ancient Khmers!!!! The AngKoR Wat is alway stuck in my mind!!! I love The AngkOr Wat is sooooo mucccchhhh!!! Please protect yourself don't let the enemies attacking you!! I will come over to see you somedays.........Also the AngKoR Wat is the Paradise for Human been!!!!!!!!!! But its not for enemies...
RockHeart,
ChassNong
Jun 1 2004, 02:44 PM
These are awsome pics. Thanks a million, Angkorwat19

. Would you mind if I use one of them as my desktop background. It will replace a pretty girl pic that I have on right now. Wow, I couldn't believe I prefer ankgor wat pic over my favorite girl's pic! Sorry, girl, Angkor Wat get all my love now
TDscorpion
Jun 1 2004, 03:00 PM
[Cambodia looks at bright future by preserving past
Experts from around the world work to restore ancient temples
Sunday, May 2, 2004
Angkor , Cambodia -- At the magical temple of Ta Prohm, 200-year-old trees grow from the ruins, their roots embracing the ancient stone walls like giant snakes. Archaeologists from India are trying to preserve the trees -- and the temple's romantic spirit -- for as long as possible.
Down the road, at the magnificent, sprawling temple of Angkor Wat, a Japanese-led crew grafts newly quarried sandstone onto broken 12th century blocks in a state-of-the-art effort to save the building known as the northern library.
Nearby, 300,000 stone blocks of the dismantled Bapuon temple are spread across 25 acres of grassy fields. The building plans were destroyed by war, but a French-led archaeological team is reconstructing the ancient pyramid, stone by stone.
As the horrors of Cambodia's "killing fields" fade into history, a renaissance is taking place in ancient Angkor. Led by the United Nations, an international coalition of preservationists is working to restore and protect one of the great cities of the past.
"This is a model of cooperation -- more than 10 countries and international organizations coming together in a spirit of solidarity for the work of preserving cultural heritage," Cambodian Senior Minister Sok An said.
The restoration of Angkor serves as a powerful symbol of unity in a country still struggling to come to terms with the Khmer Rouge genocide that killed more than 1 million people and the decades of civil war that followed.
Angkor Wat, the world's largest religious monument and Angkor's best- known temple, appears on the Cambodian flag, the national currency and bottles of the country's top-selling Angkor beer. When a Phnom Penh newspaper falsely reported last year that a popular Thai actress claimed that Angkor Wat belonged to Thailand, Cambodians rioted in the capital, destroying the Thai Embassy and dozens of Thai-owned businesses.
"It is now the first time in 400 years that the Cambodian people are united under one constitution, one king and the leadership of one government," Sok said. "No rebels, no dissidents, no secession. We have a very unified Cambodia, so we can be proud."
With the removal of 25,000 land mines, the resurrection of the city and its 1994 designation as Angkor Archaeological Park comes a new threat: a population explosion that could overrun the preservation zone.
More than 100 temples, large and small, make up the sprawling ancient city. Almost hidden among the monuments are dozens of dusty villages where some families have lived for generations and others have just arrived. Outside the temples, hawkers try to outshout one another as they offer souvenirs to tourists. The roads are crowded with tour buses, motorbikes and the occasional elephant. Monkeys rest by the roadside.
Tourists who visit Angkor stay in the bustling town of Siem Reap, four miles from the temple city. Hotels are not permitted in Angkor, but 71 hotels and guesthouses have recently opened or are under construction in Siem Reap, according to the local planning department. Provincial Gov. Chap Nhalyvoud said he expects 1 million tourists to visit this year -- more than double last year's total. Hollywood has contributed to the popularity of Angkor with the movie "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," which was shot at Ta Prohm and Angkor Wat in 2000.
Within the park's boundaries, the population has surpassed 100,000 as poor farming families leave the countryside, build squatter villages near the temples and search for work in Siem Reap.
"They arrive every day and they want to build, build, build," said Chau Sun Kerya, director of tourism at Angkor. "It is a very big concern for the government. It's not too late, but we need to take action quickly."
It is easy to see why so many people are drawn to Angkor. The historic city, covering three times the area of San Francisco, contains an awe- inspiring collection of temples, monuments and lagoons built over hundreds of years. Some experts believe that as many as 1 million people lived here at the height of the Khmer empire.
Angkor was the center of a great kingdom that spanned much of Southeast Asia between the 9th and 13th centuries. Rooted in Hinduism and Buddhism introduced by Indian traders, the Khmers built more than 100 temples and the walled city of Angkor Thom, which was larger than imperial Rome in its day.
Historians are uncertain why the empire collapsed. Some blame invaders, others say it fell into economic decline. But by the 15th century, the Khmer court had moved south to Phnom Penh.
The French, who colonized Cambodia in the late 19th century, were astounded by the collection of temples and began restoring them more than a century ago.
The work continued until 1975, when the Khmer Rouge began its genocidal campaign to create a simple agrarian society. At Angkor, villagers were forced to move to the countryside and many were slain, but damage to the temples was minimal.
The civil war that followed the ouster of the Khmer Rouge lasted until the mid-1990s. Despite the fighting, some foreign experts returned in the late 1980s to do emergency repair work on some of the temples.
In response to appeals from Cambodia, the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization declared Angkor a World Heritage site in 1992, and a year later, the agency organized an international partnership to protect and restore the temples. Some critics question whether outsiders have too much influence over the project, but foreign officials say the need to preserve Angkor transcends national concerns.
"This is the pride of Cambodia, but it is an international heritage," Indian Secretary of Culture Dhanendra Kumar said during a recent visit. "It belongs to the world."
Cambodia has been slow to recover from the genocide that wiped out a generation of leaders, intellectuals and teachers. The current government, headed by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who defected from the Khmer Rouge in 1977, has halted the fighting but is divided by frequent squabbles. No former Khmer Rouge leaders have been brought to trial.
Today, the country ranks as one of the world's poorest. Workers earn an average of $25 a month and corruption is widespread. At some Angkor temples, police make a few extra dollars peddling their badges to tourists.
"It's very hard in Cambodia because salaries are so low," one officer at the Ta Prohm temple said as he sold the badge off his shirt to a visitor for $5.
But as Angkor's revival begins to fuel Cambodia's recovery, some worry that tourism is having an undue influence in shaping the country's culture and sense of history, offering an idealized view of European colonialism to travelers who visit the country for an average of only 2 1/2 days.
Popular legend has it that the ancient city was lost to the jungle for hundreds of years until French naturalist Henri Mouhot rediscovered it in the 1860s. But that is a myth propagated for the benefit of tourists. Although many of the temples were overgrown with trees, the city was never abandoned and people have lived in or near the temples for 1,000 years.
For the government, it is getting more difficult to protect the monuments while maintaining Angkor's historic status as a populated city.
"We have problems caused by rich people, by poor people, by every kind of people," said Ang Choulean, director of the Authority for the Protection and Management of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap. "We tolerate them because we want to see this preserved as a living site."
Over the centuries, many of the temples were converted from Hindu to Buddhist, and the structures were altered accordingly. Most restoration efforts are aimed at conserving the temples as the partial ruins of today, not rebuilding them as they once were.
"When you are dealing with historic buildings, you have no right to decide what period you should return to," said John Sanday, Cambodia project manager for the World Monuments Fund, which is conserving the Preah Khan and Ta Som temples. "History began yesterday."
For preservationists, the Bapuon temple poses one of the biggest challenges.
Centuries after it was built in 1060, Bapuon was considered a spectacle. The five-tiered temple mount was bigger than the pyramids of Mexico. Originally Hindu, it was partially dismantled in the 16th century and the stones used to construct one of the world's largest Buddhas, a reclining figure extending 250 feet on the upper portion of the temple.
After the temple partially collapsed in the 1940s, French archaeologists decided to dismantle it stone by stone, build a new concrete foundation and reassemble it. Work began in 1960. Crews took the stones, weighing from 400 to 5,000 pounds, and began placing them in fields around the temple.
But in 1975, war interrupted their work, and the French experts fled. Unfortunately, no one thought to take a set of plans. During the ensuing turmoil, Khmer Rouge soldiers destroyed all records identifying the stones' original locations.
For 20 years, the stones sat untouched. In 1995, a French-led team began the mind-numbing work of figuring out where each block goes. Pascal Royere, the French architect who heads the project, calls it the world's biggest puzzle.
"Today, after eight years of work, we are reaching a very important stage, " Royere said. "We now know 75 percent to 80 percent of the stones that are scattered around, and we are in a position to reassemble them." Royere hopes the restoration will be finished by 2007.
Cambodian officials say the international effort to preserve Angkor is a model for restoring monuments in other war-torn parts of the world, including Afghanistan's giant stone Bamian Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.
"This should be viewed as an example for all countries that have had such a catastrophe of destruction and genocide," said Vann Molyvann, King Norodom Sihanouk's representative for Angkor.
"This applies to Afghanistan, Iraq and many countries that have suffered (from) their heritage destroyed by war." ]
Amazing and unique .. Thanks for the photos
kadetkmao
Jun 1 2004, 04:37 PM
Thanks for sharing the photos. Amazing with the lights over Angkor wat. Thank you . I wish I was there.
NitaKang
Jun 1 2004, 05:40 PM
Seems like Angkor Hollywood, with all the lights.
AidanW
Jun 1 2004, 08:06 PM
Nice pictures indeed....love the photography. That site has a lot more photos of the temples and landscape in Cambodia, mostly black and white pictures. They look extremely beautiful, like a fairy tale world. Thank you for sharing these pictures Angkorwat19.
tattra
Jun 1 2004, 09:11 PM
holamon,
Khmer friends were part of my wonderful childhood. I guess that is the connection

. I'm currently trying to overcome many of my humanly faults, and bashing others in a flame war is one of them
Jotmaimamoreaj
Jun 1 2004, 10:33 PM
| QUOTE (tattra @ Jun 1 2004, 10:11 PM) |
holamon,
Khmer friends were part of my wonderful childhood. I guess that is the connection . I'm currently trying to overcome many of my humanly faults, and bashing others in a flame war is one of them |
You are the true friendship for a khmer person. You are calm,polite and more understandable between us.
holamon
Jun 1 2004, 10:46 PM
| QUOTE (tattra @ Jun 1 2004, 10:11 PM) |
holamon,
Khmer friends were part of my wonderful childhood. I guess that is the connection . I'm currently trying to overcome many of my humanly faults, and bashing others in a flame war is one of them  |
Thanks tattra,
I also have many Viet friends during my childhood years. And, some of my current friends are Viets. They are very nice people. In fact, my sister-in-law is Viet. I am just appalled at some of the insults that's going on in this forum.
Anyway, take care
Azncrombieguy
Jun 1 2004, 11:02 PM

yeah!!! the view on this one is fantastic!!!!!!!!
transtic
Jun 2 2004, 09:36 AM
As captivating as it is in these pics, nothing beats actually being there at sunrise or sunset. There's something really haunting about it at nightfall, but so serene at the break of dawn.
madness
Mar 24 2005, 10:31 AM
QUOTE(angkorwat19 @ Jun 1 2004, 02:24 AM)
wow!!!khmer girls have nice sexxyy body!!!
...
Cambochink488
Mar 24 2005, 09:22 PM
wowo that is gorgeous i wish my weddin would look like that
UltraSupre
Mar 24 2005, 09:23 PM
QUOTE(madness @ Mar 24 2005, 10:31 AM)
QUOTE(angkorwat19 @ Jun 1 2004, 02:24 AM)
wow!!!khmer girls have nice sexxyy body!!!
...These girls look mixed. Most of the dancers picked are mixed with chinese and vietnamese.. nothing wrong with the pure cambo look... the really really black ones..
camcode
Mar 25 2005, 12:15 AM
Angkor Wat is super beautiful. It is even more super beautiful when you add some light in the background. I am blessed to visit there a few months ago.
laobz
Mar 29 2005, 02:33 PM
beautiful picture of Angkor Wat
JumboJet
Mar 30 2005, 05:01 PM
QUOTE(UltraSupre @ Mar 24 2005, 09:23 PM)
QUOTE(madness @ Mar 24 2005, 10:31 AM)
QUOTE(angkorwat19 @ Jun 1 2004, 02:24 AM)
wow!!!khmer girls have nice sexxyy body!!!
...These girls look mixed. Most of the dancers picked are mixed with chinese and vietnamese.. nothing wrong with the pure cambo look... the really really black ones..

What's up with you and mixed Khmers....these are typical everday khmers!
ChassNong
Mar 31 2005, 03:31 AM
QUOTE(JumboJet @ Mar 30 2005, 05:01 PM)
QUOTE(UltraSupre @ Mar 24 2005, 09:23 PM)
QUOTE(madness @ Mar 24 2005, 10:31 AM)
QUOTE(angkorwat19 @ Jun 1 2004, 02:24 AM)
wow!!!khmer girls have nice sexxyy body!!!
...These girls look mixed. Most of the dancers picked are mixed with chinese and vietnamese.. nothing wrong with the pure cambo look... the really really black ones..

What's up with you and mixed Khmers....these are typical everday khmers!
Just ignore this UltraSupre troll. All his posts have been along the line of "pure Khmers are ugly". What a sad fool.
UltraSupre
Mar 31 2005, 06:50 AM
If it wasn't for the chinese mixing, most of yall would still look primitive and ugly.
Kambolizhuz
Mar 31 2005, 10:02 AM
^ You are really stupid...Not all Khmer are mixed with Chinese..or Vietnamese, esp. these dancers, Karaoke stars are not Apsara dancers. There Khmer mixed Chinese who look ugly too and the purer one look better.
KITT
Mar 31 2005, 10:25 AM

Holy Moly, those pics are so beautiful! I'm saving those pics. Light sure add the flavor big time to Ankor wat. They should've print those pic on calender and posters. Very beautiful!!
Just curious, does Ankor Wat gets night light like that on regular day or only special occassion?
j3sus_juice
Apr 1 2005, 04:09 PM
QUOTE(UltraSupre @ Mar 31 2005, 03:50 AM)
If it wasn't for the chinese mixing, most of yall would still look primitive and ugly.

how stupid are you UltraStupid for you to say something stupid as you did. not all light skin cambodians are mixed with chinese or vietnamese. obviously, you have some $hit against cambodians to say stupid $hit on the net about us. is it because you hate cambodians sooooooo much but you find light skin cambodians soooooo attractive that you had to say $hit like that to hide your true feelings? is it because what you thought all along about cambodians was wrong that you had to spread it around because its killing you inside? little boy, find something else to do. go read a book if you aint too stupid to.
UltraSupre
Apr 1 2005, 04:59 PM
QUOTE(j3sus_juice @ Apr 1 2005, 04:09 PM)
QUOTE(UltraSupre @ Mar 31 2005, 03:50 AM)
If it wasn't for the chinese mixing, most of yall would still look primitive and ugly.

how stupid are you UltraStupid for you to say something stupid as you did. not all light skin cambodians are mixed with chinese or vietnamese. obviously, you have some $hit against cambodians to say stupid $hit on the net about us. is it because you hate cambodians sooooooo much but you find light skin cambodians soooooo attractive that you had to say $hit like that to hide your true feelings? is it because what you thought all along about cambodians was wrong that you had to spread it around because its killing you inside? little boy, find something else to do. go read a book if you aint too stupid to.
almost all pretty Khmer girls i've seen are part this or that.. and the pure ones are generally ugly...
khmershortay
Apr 2 2005, 11:03 AM
QUOTE(UltraSupre @ Mar 31 2005, 06:50 AM)
If it wasn't for the chinese mixing, most of yall would still look primitive and ugly.

Your momma is ugly you dumb biatch. post up your ugly picture and we'll judge you. so ignorant. waste of everyone's time
camcode
Apr 3 2005, 12:21 PM
QUOTE(UltraSupre @ Mar 31 2005, 06:50 AM)
If it wasn't for the chinese mixing, most of yall would still look primitive and ugly.

If it wasn't for the Khmer mixing, all you Chinese would still can't open your eyes

.
QUOTE(UltraSupre @ Apr 1 2005, 04:59 PM)
almost all pretty Khmer girls i've seen are part this or that.. and the pure ones are generally ugly...

Most of the pure Chinese I've seen could be blind-folded with a dental floss.
j3sus_juice
Apr 3 2005, 05:10 PM
QUOTE(abu @ Apr 3 2005, 01:34 PM)
QUOTE(UltraSupre @ Apr 1 2005, 04:59 PM)
almost all pretty Khmer girls i've seen are part this or that.. and the pure ones are generally ugly...

Most of the pure Chinese I've seen could be blind-folded with a dental floss.
true that
j3sus_juice
Apr 4 2005, 01:01 PM
this is

QUOTE(abu @ Apr 4 2005, 03:27 AM)
View from space...

nombaingsachko
Apr 4 2005, 07:44 PM
wow.. i never realized how perfectly symmetrical it looks from an aerial view. the moat and the wall.
sweet_lilangel
Apr 9 2005, 08:21 PM
Wow, the pics are absolutely beautiful!!!
I must visit Angkor Wat some day!!!
Thank you for sharing the pics!!!
j3sus_juice
Apr 12 2005, 12:16 PM

angkor wat should be light up ocasionally(sp), i bet it would attract more tourist from around the world.
PervertBurger
Apr 12 2005, 12:18 PM
I think Angkor Wat should be for monks and any left over Hindu only. If you want to come see it you can, but from a distance.
Dara
Apr 12 2005, 12:36 PM
Did you guys read a recent article posted at KC? It said that tourists are leaving graffiti behind. Etching out their silly names in the stones facades of Angkor Wat and whatnot. That sucks. Damn those tourists.
j3sus_juice
Apr 12 2005, 12:46 PM
QUOTE(Dara @ Apr 12 2005, 09:36 AM)
Did you guys read a recent article posted at KC? It said that tourists are leaving graffiti behind. Etching out their silly names in the stones facades of Angkor Wat and whatnot. That sucks. Damn those tourists.
i heard about that. fu ck them b!tches!!
noyume
Apr 13 2005, 03:51 PM
aw, those pictures are lovely! i really like the one with the bluish sky above angkor. when did this concert take place? is there anyway i could see it on video or dvd?
wizdom316
Apr 23 2005, 09:21 AM

we're ALL beautiful and sexxay...in our own way
wow i'm impressed, I can't wait to go visit the motherland some day...

khmer represent!!