Exotic, charming and full of history: There ain’t no place like Cambodia

Any travel junkie, would love to get lost amid Cambodia’s hidden treasures. In this photo: Banteay Srei, the ‘citadel of women’ is made of pink sandstone in ornate design (Photos by Rama Arya)

Updated on: Mar 06, 2016 3:01 PM IST

News

Share via

• 
• 
• 
• 

Copy link

• 

1/9

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Mar 06, 2016 3:01 PM

Any travel junkie, would love to get lost amid Cambodia’s hidden treasures. In this photo: Banteay Srei, the ‘citadel of women’ is made of pink sandstone in ornate design (Photos by Rama Arya)

2/9

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Mar 06, 2016 3:01 PM

A three-tiered pyramid with five lotus-like towers 65 meters high crowns Angkor Wat (Photos by Rama Arya)

3/9

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Mar 06, 2016 3:01 PM

Angkor Wat was both a Vishnu temple and mausoleum for King Suryavarman II (Photos by Rama Arya)

4/9

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Mar 06, 2016 3:01 PM

The remains of 8,985 people bludgeoned to death, Choeung Ek killing fields (Photos by Rama Arya)

5/9

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Mar 06, 2016 3:01 PM

Columns and colonnades line the 500-acre expanse of Angkor Wat (Photos by Rama Arya)

6/9

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Mar 06, 2016 3:01 PM

The once Hindu Angkor Wat was converted into a Buddhist shrine in the 16th Century (Photos by Rama Arya)

7/9

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Mar 06, 2016 3:01 PM

The Temple of Ta Prohm has been left as discovered by the French explorer Henri Mouhot in 1860 (Photos by Rama Arya)

8/9

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Mar 06, 2016 3:01 PM

In 1977, an average of 100 people a day were imprisoned in S-21 (Photos by Rama Arya)

9/9

View Photos in a new improved layout

Updated on Mar 06, 2016 3:01 PM

The remains of 8,985 people bludgeoned to death, Choeung Ek killing fields (Photos by Rama Arya)