lor spirit cleansing

The thing I love about travel is the adventure and clarity of thought you gain. It seems like a fresh dose of humanity where you can get a breather from all the insanity of day to day life.

This photo is a little deceptive. Although it looks like a huge hall, where people would be dwarfed by pillars, it's in fact extremely tight. There's no way you could stand up, not that you could get in there - it's too small.

It's taken in Cambodia, at one of the smaller temples near Bayon. There's a long "bridge" heading toward the temple entrance. It's long and thin, and not very high, so most visitors wouldn't think to jump down and look underneath. Maybe because there's spiderwebs everywhere...

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ISO50, 100-400mm @ 100mm, ƒ32, 1.3 sec exposure

Taken on: 19th January, 2009. Copyright: All Rights Reserved - See sadaiche (Peter Franc)'s page of Flickr

Read more about Siem Reap

Set in northwest Cambodia, Siem Reap is best known for being home to the incredible Angkor ruins, a sprawling World Heritage-listed complex of ancient temples with the magnificent Angkor Wat as the focal point.

While the complex is surely one of the globe's most amazing historical sites, Siem Reap province is also home to an array of other ruins, such as Beng Mealea and Bantaey Srei. So if ancient temple ruins are your thing, this province -- an expansive piece of flat land, covered in rice fields and brush -- must be explored fully. It runs along the north coast of the Tonle Sap, Cambodia's "Great Lake", and north to Oddar Meanchey province. Few visitors get around to the fringes.

The provincial capital of Siem Reap is also a transportation hub, with many people coming through here en route to Read our complete Siem Reap travel guide

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