FM 538: Cambodia

Jan 2011

One more fridge magnet compliments from GH.

Si mummycantik ni pergi Cambodia and she got me this.

Thanks darl!

This is a pic from the time we met for breakfast back in January this year

When: 2011 January

Who: GH

Where: Cambodia

Wow: #538

Angkor What?

Thanks to Grace, this magnet is now sitting comfortably in my office. She & hubby Sathish went for the trip mid last year. Here's a picture of Angkor Wat you often see. And below that, an aerial picture of Angkor Wat... a picture you don't see often.

At the center of Angkor Wat are five towers that represent the five peaks of Mount Meru. The round towers mark out the corners and the center of the innermost square of the complex. Like the mountain peaks they represent, the towers are pointed on top. The pinnacle of each tower is slightly lighter than the surrounding black stone in this image.

Where from: Cambodia

Where now: Office

Who: Grace Yap

When: 2007

No. 81

From EO newsroom: Tucked deep in the Cambodian rainforest, the ancient Angkor Wat temple is considered one of the most valuable architectural sites in Asia. Angkor Wat is the pinnacle of the city of Angkor, capital of the once-powerful Khmer Empire of Southeast Asia. The temple was built by Suryavarman II between 1113 and 1150 AD. Dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu, Angkor Wat is a representation of Mount Meru, home of the gods and the center of the Hindu universe. In addition to its unique pyramid temple architecture, Angkor Wat is covered with intricate bas-relief carvings of Hindu epics.

Many of the symbolic architectural features are clearly visible in this Ikonos image, acquired on April 12, 2004. The temple complex is surrounded by a 174-meter- (570-foot-) wide moat, visible in the large image, that represents the oceans at the edge of the universe. A stone causeway leads through the Hindu universe to the temple home of the gods from the west, on the left side of the image. The temple complex itself is a series of buildings on rising terraces like the slopes of a mountain.