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In the South we find the uncontaminated beaches of the Gulf of the Siam, sea of the celebrated Ko Samui, but the crazy tourism has not put foot and a reduced hotel readiness of high level has maintained these beaches intact and solitary. The vast plains, as at the beginning of times extend around the river and the great lake. From the rice fields it seems that emerge only sugar’s palms and the roofs of stilt houses, but leaving behind the modern road and going on the red trails, the vegetation open itself to show us the beauty of the ancient stone temple, surreal sanctuary-towers embraced by the roots of the huge trees. The whole Cambodia is a vast unknown archaeological site that, step-by-step, reveal itself to the traveler, preparing him to the beauty that will find in Angkor, an archaeological area unique at the world. Angkor was the heart of an enormous city in which at the time of maximum splendour leaved hundreds of thousands of people among extensions of rice fields, orchards, fields and plantations, crossed by mazes of channels. the temples, san
ctuaries and monasteries where surrounded by f thousands of house. The Ecole Francaise of Extrême-Orient classified 276 monuments in the area of Angkor. From the artificial basin, the barray, a net of channels lay down with geometric perfection to connect the other entire basin which surrounded the temples and where used to irrigate the fields.
From this perfect hydraulic system emerge, as precious stones encased in a grandiose jewel, the temples, the sanctuaries, the terraces, the walls, the portals, the bridges and the big avenues
of access of the city. We have seen thousands of images on the videotape or in the magazines but any digital renewal and nobody can equal the astonishing effect of the three-dimensional vision of these gigantic stone works that, step by step, arises from the vegetation and offer itself to our eyes while we travel through the streets of Cambodia .
