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Angkor wat- the temple of temples

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APSARA DANCE-Meant for the Gods,now enjoyed by mere mortals( that too with a complemetary buffet dinner @usd 15 only) How can men,born in flesh and destroyed in fire,be immortal like the Gods? What would you do to make yourself immortal if you were born a king! Pharaoh Khufu built the Great pyramid of Giza, Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty built the great Wall of China, Sahajahan of Moghuls built the Taj, but the Khemr kings made themselves immortal in the annals of human history by the Angkor temples, “ with the epic proportions of the Great Wall of China, the detail and intricacy of the Taj Mahal and the symbolism and symmetry of the pyramids, all rolled into one" Before beginning our Tomb Raider Lara Craft experience in the ancient ruins of Angkor Wat, let us rush a bit through the boring history books!(I will try to make it interesting) Kampuchia or Kambojdesh Jayavarman II declared himself the Rajchakrabarti Debraja of Kambuj in 802AD....

Bai tu long bay.....the land of the dragons

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Introduction Legends are born when nature cloaks herself in the morning mist of secrecy like the Veils of Isis, where unannouced dangers lurks around every corner, where the crimson red evening sky kisses the blue azure waters of the sea, where small green hillocks poke their head above the placid azure blue waters, where underground rivers gushes through dark caves, where men make love in the day and yet fight for greed at night, where man's imagination hushes up his logical mind, where nature fascinates human even today as it had done hundreds of year before! Welcome to Bai tu long bay! The legend Many many many years ago, when the blue sea kissed the plain lands of Vietnam,lived the happy peace loving Vietnamese people, simple farmers who toiled hard on their land,drank paddy wine and made love. It was a simple yet fulfilling life. But peace alas is like the rainbow. Suddenly pirates from the north ( probably Chinese) attacked the land. The simple people who did not know ...