Angkor
Tuesday, August 12, 2003
JUNGLE and silence, statues and ruins, mist and rain; all making the remains of the ancient city of Angkor Thom seem reunited with Timebut a Time we don't really know. Standing among the blackened stone pillars and the Bayon Temple walls browned with laterite, one directly faces four Buddha head statues carved on the 45-meter-high summit; one is unnerved in the awareness of an 800-year history. But for just a moment. Right now.
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