Angkor Wat

[Justmyopinionlol]

I am Vietnamese and I will never forget that the Khmer people had the greatest culture for thousand of years in this region. Thailand and Vietnam used to be right next to each other-like Laos and Hanoi but the evil Chinese keep invading our land so we never had the chance to develop the arts and build great temples. Vietnam's great misfortune is that we have the aggressive Chinese as neighbors who constantly harass us and try to teach us "lessons".

[fasteddy60]

I land in Siem Reap Feb.3rd 2011.I'm excited! Then off to Da Nang Vn. working my way south to HCMC. this is my second visit to Vn. I love it there.

[tamacuboys]

nice music

[Evilfisher]

wat

[tro8Aoper]

WOW!!!

Rich Malay culture..!!!

[nekonuzze]

wat

[tonyle001]

CAn someone tell me what is the name of this musical piece??? thanks

[kanir9]

i will see it all real!!!!!!! excited!

[TopJimmyWinn]

What were these ancient peoples highest acheivements? Their buildings and sculpting?

[khmerpreah401]

Hi! No it's not all about building great monuments and sculptings! It's the fact that they can yield three or four rice crops in one year! They are masters at irrigation systems and using the waters there to provide food for the rest of the population. During the 8th-15th century it was the biggest pre-industrialized city in the world!

[Justmyopinionlol]

@khmerpreah401 yes, very true. There were a lot of very smart Khmers in those days. So you guys also have the biggest territory in that region. In fact, Saigon, from what I understand, was originally Khmer, then become Champa, then become Vietnamese.

[Drobstar]

I LOVE CAMBODIA

[milkSoft]

wat

[TopJimmyWinn]

Was the lake there, when the ancients occupied it?

[belikeandywarhol]

Yes, the water was there and it was a man made moat I believe.

[hhm123]

u know somewhere in the deep jungles near angkor wat theres this undiscovered animal species that was known to cure 100 dieseases..

[waynehyl]

south east asia is abundant with buddhism heritage sites like angkor wat in cambodia sukhothai & ayuthaya in thailand, borobudur in indonesia, bagan in myanmar. worth to visit

[WhoDatPhillyJawn]

actually this were a hindu temple..

[BlueRice]

no, the temple belong to the indigenous Khmer people. the temple was build to serve the Hindu gods.

[WhoDatPhillyJawn]

i know it was a khmer temple idiot i was just saying that its based on hindu!!

[BlueRice]

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you know you make it sound like "the concept its base on hindu culture" NO! its not base or related to hindu.

[BlueRice]

lets be frank. first its a capital city. later it became a temple. only thing we shared was text such as sanscript. everything eles is absolutely khmer. the architecture and the myth of the celestial god. is our own myth. the god serve alot of countries back then. each of the culture have their own history but same god. therefore, its not base on hindu.

[mhsux]

i got up the stairs, they are scary man.

they're narrow and steep and very high up

it was crazy

[bixlerscott]

The stairs in the center are closed due to a Korean tourist falling to his death last year, so I was told.

[mhsux]

whoah geez

that really sucks

going on a holiday and dying

it nothing a healthy male can't handle, must have been a woman or an old person

actually i saw a coulple of oldish 50-60 people at the very top

i went June last year, so it must have been some time after that

it was really dangerous yeah, i'm surprised they didn't close it sooner

but you know what asian countries are like, they dont really care

[martinonstad]

Are you kidding? I have climbed those stairs!

[pisethkem]

Be careful and take care the Temple.

[cbora311]

i was there in Nov 2007 with friend ,and i was not able to climb up to the top . They closed for some reason .

[lileysok07]

im so jealous ..i didn't get to climb angkor wat..when i was there, they close the stairs..

[omfangke]

siem reap is nice place in cambodia,thx

[greenworld1]

Different languages can have different word order/grammar than English.

[khmaiboi987]

in our language its a bit different from english.. angkor wat is how "we" say it

[tom3605]

Reply to 08nickyJO: In Khmer, the language of the people of Cambodia, "Angkor" means "Great" and "Wat" means "Tenple". Thus Angkor Wat means Great Temple, not the Temple of Angkor as you thought. Similarly, the nearby ruins of Angkor Thom means Great City and not the City of Angkor.

[dendenlcabubas]

a testament to the greatness of southeast asian culture.

[Dagibit]

Look at its Wikipedia article- that whole island thing would make an awesome war-game map!

[alpineskier07]

you captured the sights very well

[dollarside]

do you know what the holes in the walls and on the ground are for? cuz i asked the guard that was there and he's like "im not sure"

[phanith]

my dad know 1 of the security guy, it his friend. he said because the thai peoples scratch the art of Angkor Wat like Apsara and other stuffff. few of them have go to jail already. that y they put security guy for save the art. some it thief that stole the statue.

[dollarside]

no i mean like holes, an no offend if ur cambodian, but cambodian ppl also took their own stuff away to sale it to some other ppl...

[phanith]

i think the hole it have it long time ago, maybe when angkor wat just built.

[phanith]

here some more information "Many of the temples at Angkor have holes in them (right). These come from the space left from the poles use to put them in place. Over time the ends of the poles rotted away leaving holes." i get from website about angkor history. i hope u get it.

[dollarside]

hey thanks man

[drdrtfehytf]

everytime before or just after something dies, I see a television program about Cambodia.

I visit the Reclining Buddha in Bangkok for the first time with my Cambodian buddy.

The second time I went to Wat Pho, on the way back to my apartment, on the Chao Phraya River express boat, I incredibly, accidentally run into my Khmer friend's brother!

[godcomment]

i hate the cambodian they don't put a freakin security in angkor wat or camera. they just don't care about angkor wat.

[moneygrowontrees]

keep in mind that they r poor, n besides i like angkor the way it is in a natural way. if u put sum tech security feature like cctv and alarm, it might lost it natural splendor...

[godcomment]

i love Angkor Wat story.

[aznriceboi401]

this video looks pretty old notice that they didn't have the "girls" stairs to climb down from the top i just went last month it was awesome! its hard to believe that the angor wat was all hand made

[thai1959]

Thank you for your vidio.Been there myself.Incredible feat of engineering and art The Khemers who engineerd this must have been highly intelligent indeed.

[Rigger43]

nice place shitty thing is the money goes to oil companies and not to the people

[tarany]

january, it was packed.

[popcatepetl2]

Great video! But what time of the year was that? There are soooooo many people...

[stevenklok]

wow great video, mad love for my people and srok khmer.

[belikeandywarhol]

I've been there. Whoop!

[Tennismadal]

Beautiful place, great video, wonderful reminder.