{"id":1647,"date":"2018-09-05T10:24:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T08:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyclefoodfun.com\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2018-09-05T10:24:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T08:24:27","slug":"angkor-wat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyclefoodfun.co.za\/?p=1647","title":{"rendered":"Angkor Wat"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Beautiful, Sacred Space.<\/h2>\n

Once the biggest city in the world, Angkor Wat remains the largest religious monument in the world visited by millions of people every year.\u00a0 Angkor Wat, which means Temple City, is the name of the great temple and the whole complex.\u00a0 It is surrounded by a 3 km wall and a 5 km moat.<\/p>\n

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Wall and Moat surrounding the temple complex<\/p><\/div>\n

Angkor Wat<\/h2>\n
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Angkor Wat\u00a0 – West\u00a0 Entrance<\/p><\/div>\n

Everyone advised me to visit the main temple early in the morning to avoid the crowds.\u00a0 I arranged to be picked up at 04:30 in the morning to be at the temple early enough to see the sunrise (along with hundreds of other people).\u00a0 Instead of going directly to the West entrance I asked the tuk-tuk driver to drop me on the East side and I walked, in the dark, around the North side of the temple.\u00a0 It was peaceful, beautiful, mysterious and powerful to be alone with this majestic temple.\u00a0 The sky lightened by degrees and I joined the others at the West entrance in time to see the sunrise.<\/p>\n\n\t\t