Angkor Wat and the associated area is truly amazing. AND -- in case anyone was worried about my vocabulary becoming impoverished while not speaking much English, let me assure you I can now -- having visited the ruins -- sprinkle such words as "laterite", "corbelling," and "quincunx"convincingly into virtually any sentence. Like that one.
It's hard to put the experience into words, even such double-barreled ones. I think it's the incredible extent of the place that is so amazing: here's a frinstance -- 1000 years ago this year (in 1010) they built a water reservoir 8 kilometers long and 3 wide, and it has been in continuous use since.
And once I had the image of touring New York in a thousand years, nothing left but hollow buildings with preserved antiques, I could not get it out of my mind.
I weas outraged, however, to see in Phnom Penh that we now have to work to find draft beer at fifty cents per mug. The difficulties of travel seem legion.
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