Angkor Wat

[CUGS2009]

Angkor Wat was built by Thailand for Thai people many long time ago. Thailand will keep forever our Angkor Wat because it belong to Thailand.

[tourindochina]

Great video! Thanks for sharing! Tourism Indochina

[sopheakprak1]

@synasta562 I'm also khmer and understand how you feel, but everything is peaceful now, so stop taking the argument or any things between our country and others to say again and again, especially argument between Thailand and Cambodia. Even I'm khmer, but I think that most thai people also didn't want this to happen. No one wanted it to happen. Let's stop wasting time to hate. It's useless! We should spend the time to develop our country!

[TemujinTheWarrior]

French explorer found Angkor Wat, but Kamen people never know that there were exist on Cambodia. Amazing, That 's why French must ruled this country or a long time.

[MrPhon1984]

@TemujinTheWarrior true

[bonny25ind]

Nice background music..!

[sprucepantherkmt]

holy fuck shit music

[khmerpreah401]

The Legendary Sun-King LIVESSS!!!

[adcinkl]

I have been travelling to Siem Reap for over ten years now from my home in Malaysia and take groups of students to support Savong's charity school near Angkor. In my presentation to the students before they go, I always show them your video of Angkor. It conveys the awe you felt at sunrise, and the choice of music, the stills you pick and the genuine excitement you show, really capture the students' attention. Thank you - better than any formal, fact filled professional tourist video.

[honsun0291]

Such a beautiful song set to a wondrous and beautiful place--"heartbeats" is very appropriate. Did you know that in Angkor Wat, there's a chamber where you can hear your heartbeat? Angkor is an Egyptian word meaning "Life to Horus."

[stellareaktor]

The Place to BE !

[synasta562]

we have suffered so much after the callapse of our great empire till this day we are still suffering from the vietnamese puppet government

[MrPhon1984]

@synasta562 u can always rise up like egypt..

[DingDingRob95]

tekken

[shirleytach81]

Great video!! Like the music. Looking forward to my trip there in August!!! Thanks for posting!!!

[keesachterstevoren]

Wow

[mfee02]

This is a great video and nice music with it. Thanks for posting.

[cocteautwin75]

So incredibly beautiful...in awe really. thank u.

[lt1fan94]

I wonder if our civilization vanished, what would remain a thousand years later. bet it wouldnt be as majestic as this.....

[khmerpreah401]

Spring and Autumn Equinox is when the Sun rises right in the middle of the tower! It's Awesome!!

[koukla206]

ankor is beautiful in person...it was the high light of my trip (visually) during my 3 month trip thru south east asia. it was breath taking. especially the sunset and sunrises. you should go and see it

[rosemarysz]

thanks for making and sharing this. it's awesome!

[angkorco]

Nice footage, and I like the music too. Seems like a really nice vibe there.

[IHyRaXI]

have you guys seen the movie Apocalypto by Mel Gibson? anyway it takes place back during the Mayan civilization.

and i was just wondering why dont the make a movie like that that takes place during the Khmer empire of Angkor??

i think that would have the potential to make an amazing, mysterious movie that wil ltake us back in time to the ancient kingdom.

[KhmerChink]

Well for one thing, Our history was pretty much disappear, although there are some story about our kings, there isn't much about anything else..so it hard for them to come up on how to create a movie in those day. whereas Mayan is known for many things.

[Veasna12]

i am cambodian..i love my culture

[cakelover33]

cool

[dannydannyx84]

i went there in 2008 but i went to the small one and yes theres two o.o

[OwCoCosplay]

Im lao but Cambodia is much more beautifull ! i just wanna go in cambodia see Angkor wat is so beautifull not only angkor theres more too =D !

[synasta562]

@OwCoCosplay laos always respected our culture, only if our neighbor thai and vietnam was more like laos, the khmer people could of given much more to the world. thais in the north want our land and credited angkor culture for themself. Vietnamese to the east look to steal our land and destory our culture. There greed have halt and destroyed the very people who created a culture that even rivaled the Greeks themselves.

[TemujinTheWarrior]

@synasta562 Why don't you inform your leader to stop hating Thai first, even your press release untrue NEWS about us.

[MrPhon1984]

@synasta562 since when did laos respect your culture? u even know there lots of your ruins in laos to and laos had a big part of angkor empire fall to not just thai lao and thai were the tai. and u khmer never really respect the thais either if u did i wouldnt be seeing all these false news about thailand by your media to stir hate and keep the hate going on for so many generation while the thais already moved on. about the past....people who stuck in the past never will be rich or wealthy

[MrPhon1984]

@synasta562 and it never seem to amaze me how u khmer come online to stir hate and fight with the thais...just enjoy the fucking video and leave politics and history alone.no one here to know what happen between u and thais 900yrs ago ok get over it its 2010 already god dammit nowonder your country still a pile of u know what because your still stuck in the damn past. instead helping to make it better u sit there complain about viet and thais. keep complaining thais and viet r taking off new era

[sopheakprak1]

@MrPhon1984 I agree with you. we should just enjoy the video, leave politics/history alone and let's not talk about the past, but can you stop criticizing about our country? I know your country is a developed and rich country, but don't look down on our country. we are trying to develop now. And not all khmer people hate your country! I'm khmer, but i don't and never hate your country. I appreciate my own country, your country and even other countries. we r all human, so let's make peace, ok?

[MrPhon1984]

@sopheakprak1 i dont have a problem with khmer but i do when i see them talk smack about the whole thai population and not the individual thais

[sopheakprak1]

@MrPhon1984 you know, some thais also talk bad about the whole cambodians. it's hurt, too, but i don't really mind because although some of them say bad about my country, there are still many people that don't. minding it will make the hatred going on, so there won't be peace. we're like neighbors, so we have to help each other, not fight with each other.

[shitnamese401]

@OwCoCosplay Lao is just right next door to Cambodia lolz! You can just cross the border when you visit your country!

[gondraparestina]

とてもキレイだ！

[Asukapride]

I would like to visit there in my life someday!

[Edivision]

the sun isn't oval in cambodia, aspect ratio!!! song is 'heartbeats' by jose gonzales - originally by the knife :)

[jbauer2]

What song is this????

[jackturner1993]

heart beat jose gonzalez

[asilverman44]

Undoubtedly a magnificent place to visit with some majestic monuments of the past which tell us a story that is beyond words... this is perhaps where divinity resides.....

[TRUTHEXPANDING]

Sorry, I made a mistake and pressed SPAM on blurice's comment. What I wanted to ask is what does mom think about this docu: Africans In Asia. Is there truth to this, because I notice this video doesn't get to close to the intricate messages/carvings on the wall. Thanks

[asiankidhi]

well blueRice thx very much for the info and correct my mom lol

[joeglimmix]

my travel agent told me not to get caught gazing up at the magnificent buildings. he said that little child thieves know how to time it just right so they can walk off with your wallet, camera, pants, shirt and toupee...

[asiankidhi]

no one can take angko wat yes im cambodian and my wen i was little my mom told me that angko wat was build by soldier 300 years ago to tell to the futur people that there wer ancien helper

[BlueRice]

lol. the trees that grow over and under is more than 300 years old. i think the temple is way much older than that.

[bladdydrongo]

Hi, Great vid. We are going there in january for part of our honeymoon. Can't wait !

[ilovemingzhong]

thailand dont have the right to take angkor wat!!!

[mssabik]

that's a very good video. i feel envious of you. I was in Angkor in 6/15-19, 2008 and I couldn't see the obvious sunrise or sunset. well, i will go there again:))

[capdestopes]

bo molt bo

[capdestopes]

encara que la calitat no es gaire bona, es realment impresionant

[minetpicante]

wonderful video. Sisophon, Battambang and Siem Reap (as the name suggests: Siamese Reign) BELONG to Thailand. They were happily part of Siam for 500 years before the French took over and the people there would have been happy without Khmer Rouge, hatred and communist experiments. Cambodia can have the landmines, Tuol Sleng and Killing Fields (and Viet prostitutes) as tourist attractions.

[maeelek]

wtf dude, go get an encyclopedia and do some research... you're embarrasing your ownself by almost acknowledging that Angkor Wat is a Khmer temple and STILL wanting to claim it as Thai because they conquered the land way back then but the French gave it back to Cambodia what was rightfully hers.

[maeelek]

my dad is battambang, mom is siem reap, and both more proud of their khmer heritage albeit the violent history because of ANGKOR WAT.

[richardyim]

fuck u idiot ass bitch whore

[SaiyanVes]

Actually Siem reap means "Siam's retreat" not Reign. wheather is was a Thai territory 500 years ago or not Angkor is still a Khmer monument. Thailand was never ruled by the French so why would they give Thailand's territory away when it's not theirs?

[effected51]

I thought it translate to "Built by Siam" as if the Cambodian's used thai slaves to build the area after the battles? I dunno, could be wrong in my translation. But it still belong to Cambodia anyways.

[SaiyanVes]

It wasn't built by Thai slaves, they came way after. I understand what you mean, "reap" sound like "reap Jom" to prepare, so it can seem that way too.

[sereyvattana]

No, our history did not say like that. And when Angkor was built, Thais didn't exist yet, but Siam. What I mean is that you generally think Siam = thai, but now we just know that Siam is not Thais. Thais is new comer.

[effected51]

I thought thais and siam were the same group of people? Even Cambodians still refer to thai people as "siam", or rather "siem" today.

[hhm123]

there was this story long ago that there used to live this creature in the deep jungles. it was told that it can cure 100 dieseases..and it can cure HIVs... ppl are trying the find it lol.

[khmerlunatiqs]

AMERICA...if your in search of atlantis and still not found...this is the asian atlantis..showin how old our ancient peeps are...hehehe...but hey...nice...pics...and videos..

[cbora311]

you did a great job , lovely video . You must get up very early morning ? the sunrise is so nice there . Thanks for sharring .

[Odelph]

sunset me thinks

[hessel1974]

Great Video! anybody knows what music is playing in the background??

[drlawitts]

I masturbated to this video about six times already. That building is so hot

[khmerchamp]

wat i luv best is the special walls when u go on them u can hear ur heart beating through ur hands and ur ears at the temple!

[khmerchamp]

im cambodian i go there every year in the summer so it's really hot and they put alot of caffine in the cappicinos you've really got to try them there good except i got dizzy and almost got by a really big guard dog!

[siemreap215]

Thank you so much for sharing of khmer Angkor wat.

[Igor340]

Very nice photography, unfortunately the music used in the background was incongruous and hence distracting, but no problem I just turned off the sound. . .

[arnotkaling]

Angkor Wat was built by the Tamils and is a Hindu shrine. it is not buddhist and never will be.

[khmerchamp]

yah uh it's built by suvvaramun the 1st the 2nd & the 3rd duh how do i kno im cambodian that's why my name is khmer champ i even hae a backround of angkor wat that's how much i care and now about my culture!!!!!!!!!

[arnotkaling]

keep dreaming Khmer boy. You were all under Tamil Hindu influence, don't tell me you guys could have built that magnificent structure. Yeah lets say it was built by suvvaramun but he was ruled by Tamil Kings.

[DANC1NGQUEEN]

V good. I'm going there in February, looking forward to it.

[imorgan10]

Thank you. Yes I'm going back in January...and I'm really looking forward to it!

[wonyrocks]

What music did you use in the video?

[bladdydrongo]

The track is 'heartbeats' by Jose Gonzales :-)

[jasmin44712]

@imorgan10 u should go there friend...! i tell u what Angkor Wat is a great place and don't how to describe. I was there about 2 months ago, it was so beautiful and have alot places that i am not yet go to visit....!

[yesilike101]

went there 35 years ago as a 5 years old boy, dont remember much. thanks for the vid

[LaKhmerdu69]

♥ღ tchome ripe souh ღ♥

[ventino99]

I was there in july 2007 and it was a wonderful experience! Great footage by the way! =)

[tempest705]

wow great vieo. angkor is getting overun by tourists though and it is becoming a problem

[thai1959]

Hi tempest07: I was there in 2000. Not many tourists back then at all.Going back in 2008.I was afraid it would be overun someday.Won't be the same now.But people need work there badly.Good for the Khemer people to have many tourist.

[xsi5000]

bravo....

[popcatepetl2]

Great Video! Hope to get there soon. At what time of the year did you shoot these pics - there are quite some crowds in some scenes.

[imorgan10]

The video footage was shot in March (dry/hot season-hence vegetation is brown) and Photo stills taken in December (hence vegetation is greener) I'm hoping to go back soon...Thanks for all your nice comments!

[sunhaninindia]

nice clip, i'll try to make a music clip about angkor too. best wishes

[askyuraunty]

Great Video!

[Videosjardim]

Belas imagens!

[wespontes]

GREAT MUSIC....

[95371019]

hey man, nice video. "heartbeats" fits your shots perfectly.  good job!

[mbramante]

I want to go back! By the way [Seiha Lim] the best Angkor tour guide. He speaks fluent English, Thai and Cambodian. His knowledge of Cambodia and it's history is encyclopedic. I highly recommend him to anyone considering a visit to Angkor Wat. You may contact him at:  Phone: +(855) 12-953-110; Email: seihalim363(at)hotmail(dot)com

[happypappi]

Great editing and nice music. Thanks so much for refreshing my memory of being there in February - I went to Angkor Wat itself 5 different times... outstanding!

[BNRB26DETT]

Thank for the video, hope you enjoy the ancient Khmer Empire. :)