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The Angkor region is so wide that it’s impossible to visit every temple, but I couldn’t miss Angkor Wat, the world’s largest religious building. The entire temple is a symbol of the cosmo according to the Hindu cosmology: the central towers representing Mount Meru, home of the gods; the outer walls, the mountains enclosing the world; and the moat, the oceans beyond.
The big dimensions of the building and its ascending costitution make the visit a pilgrimage or a path of purification during which the visitors must cross the river and enter in the “island”, detached from the land. Then he must overcome 3 levels until he reaches the last level, the highest and the nighest to the sky. Contemplating the landscape from the top gives you an estrangement feeling, calm and peaceful sensations.
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Angkor Wat
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Phrea Kan
Neak Pean
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