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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Bakheng Temple in Angkor (Kingdom of Cambodia)

This postcard of the Bakheng Temple in Siem Riep (Kingdom of Cambodia) is from Cheerful Dimaculangan. She used to stay in Cambodia but is now in Thailand.

Phnom Bakheng at Angkor, Cambodia, is a Hindu temple in the form of a temple mountain. Dedicated to Shiva, it was built at the end of the 9th century, during the reign of King Yasovarman (889-910). Constructed more than two centuries before Angkor Wat, Phnom Bakheng was in its day the principal temple of the Angkor region.

Located atop a hill, it is nowadays a popular tourist spot for sunset views of the much bigger temple Angkor Wat, which lies amid the jungle about 1.5 km to the southeast. The view of the Angkor Wat from the top of Phnom Bakheng is featured in the movie Tomb Raider (when Lara Croft looks through the binoculars upon arriving in Cambodia).

These are the stamps that she used:

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