Angkorwat is the famous temple in Cambodia.It is beutiful place.Have a lot of visitor visit it.You can take a lot of photo and buy beautiful sovenior.Angkor - the name is derived from the Sanskrit word "nagara" meaning city or capital - is spread out over 230 km2 and it contains more than 1,000 monuments dating from different periods, witnessing different religions or cults and varying in style accordingly. 27 kings are known to have ruled this ancient city between 802 and 1327. Beyond that date, no more written sources can be found.
In 1432, this capital was abandoned to the jungle but its existence was never forgotten and became the source of legends and folk tales. Towards the end of the 16th century, Portuguese and Spanish adventurers travelled to Angkor. They were fascinated by the "walled city," "one of the wonders of the world," making particular note of the Bayon and the Royal Palace. A handful of Japanese also came to Angkor in the early 17th century.
Cambodian peasants living on the edge of the thick jungle around the Tonle Sap lake reported findings which puzzled the French colonialists who arrived in Indo-China in the 1860s.
