http://travelhappy.info/cambodia/bootleg-books-in-cambodia-and-vietnam/ Backpacking and Travel in Thailand and South East Asia Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:51:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://travelhappy.info/cambodia/bootleg-books-in-cambodia-and-vietnam/#comment-18502 Angkor Wat, Cambodia: A Brief Guide · Thailand Backpacking: Travelhappy.info Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:48:53 +0000 http://travelhappy.info/?p=23#comment-18502 [...] It’s basically a waste of time to try and see all of the temples here - there are scores of them. More importantly, most of us aren’t archaelogists or historians - we simply can’t take in the significance of many of these temples because we have no prior knowledge about them. It’s much better to go on a “less is more” principle - plan to see a few temples and explore them in depth and read up on them a little or get a guide who can tell you about them. Lonely Planet Cambodia has an excellent section dedicated to Angkor. That way you can enjoy them beyond being a merely visual spectacle. Angkor has many recurring motifs in the architecture and decoration of its temples, despite them being built over 4 centuries, so many of the temples are similar to one another. This means you don’t need to tear around seeing all of them. There are numerous Cambodian kids who speak excellent English hanging around each of the main temple sites who will gladly sell you a bootleg copy of Dawn Rooney’s Angkor or Michael Freeman’s Ancient Angkor to help you understand what you’re looking at. [See my other article on bootleg books in Cambodia and Vietnam]. [...] [...] It’s basically a waste of time to try and see all of the temples here - there are scores of them. More importantly, most of us aren’t archaelogists or historians - we simply can’t take in the significance of many of these temples because we have no prior knowledge about them. It’s much better to go on a “less is more” principle - plan to see a few temples and explore them in depth and read up on them a little or get a guide who can tell you about them. Lonely Planet Cambodia has an excellent section dedicated to Angkor. That way you can enjoy them beyond being a merely visual spectacle. Angkor has many recurring motifs in the architecture and decoration of its temples, despite them being built over 4 centuries, so many of the temples are similar to one another. This means you don’t need to tear around seeing all of them. There are numerous Cambodian kids who speak excellent English hanging around each of the main temple sites who will gladly sell you a bootleg copy of Dawn Rooney’s Angkor or Michael Freeman’s Ancient Angkor to help you understand what you’re looking at. [See my other article on bootleg books in Cambodia and Vietnam]. [...]

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