Monday, January 18, 2016

Angkor Wat

Amazing, awesome and mind blowing!! With all our 21st century technology pales into insignificance when you see the  engineering masterpiece of Angkor Wat.

We walked, and walked and walked! Man, we have done a months exercise in a day (yeah, yeah I know) ! We talked, we marvelled, and  began contemplating our own lives.  We feel privileged to have been given this opportunity and to walk where an ancient civilisation once worshipped.

The day prompted many questions/thoughts:

  • Shit - where did all the rock come from?
  • The amazing skills of the builders
  • How many more temples are out there still to be discovered?
  • How many steps are there?
  • How did they have the organisational skills to manage a project of that size with such accuracy in those times? (? Aliens)
  • I want to be able to go back in time and be a "fly on the wall" and fly over the temples as they are being built so I can see how they took shape
  • What are the stories behind the carvings?
  • Did we mention the steps? (Feel the burn)
Words cannot describe fully the impact of this amazing place.





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