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CAMBODIA TREASURE
youve got to admire the skills to create these statues etc all that time ago...,,,sadly we didnt give respect
and only thought of the dollars to be made
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12th May 2022 11:36 pm
James W
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13th May 2022 7:03 am
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If it’s the prog I’m thinking about it’s re looted Cambodian antiquities. As an aside, if anyone has a bucket list Ankor Wat should be right up there at the top of it. We were there Nov/Dec 19 and it was truly fantastic, plus we thought of Cambodia as one of the best countries we’d visited.
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13th May 2022 3:33 pm
RRSTDV8
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SWMBO brother and SiL went to Cambodia / Laos. Loved it. Especially loved it when they hired a car to take them to the temples that aren't on the main tourist drag. None of the noisy people, total peace and quiet and a real feeling of what the temples were. At least that's how it was described.
As for looting temples - the west has been doing it for years. Look at all of the stuff brought out of Egypt as an example. Now, I have some sympathy with the view that much of this stuff would have been lost to the ravages of the environment if left to be exploited by the locals - European institutions are very good at looking after antiquities, generally. But I also have some sympathy with the view that the stuff wasn't ours to decide on how it should be looked after / used / exploited.
I'm glad that places like the Ashmolean Museum or the British Museum have these collections because I can go and see them - I do like the Ashmolean and it's reasonably close by in Oxford. But I'm aware that much of the stuff that was "collected" started out as "stolen" in many cases.Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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13th May 2022 3:51 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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That’s what we did as well as regular tours and DIY hiring tuktuks.
13th May 2022 3:54 pm
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We both thought the temples were fantastic too. We took a minibus before dawn and watched the sunrise over the temples. We then had a guide and two mountain bikes and cycled lesser known tracks to visit ruins and temples off the tourist trail. A hot day but well worth it for the memories.Currently 2015 D4 SE Tech, Corris Grey
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