You wait for three months for a new Basho Film and then two come along at once!

In this film we visit amaz­ing Angkor Wat, Cam­bodia and the other “Temples of Angkor”

Angkor Wat (or Angkor Vat) (Khmer: ?????????), is a temple com­plex at Angkor, Cam­bodia, built for the king Suryav­ar­man II in the early 12th cen­tury as his state temple and cap­ital city. As the best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have remained a sig­ni­fic­ant reli­gious centre since its foundation—first Hindu, ded­ic­ated to Vishnu, then Buddhist. The temple is the epi­tome of the high clas­sical style of Khmer archi­tec­ture. It has become a sym­bol of Cam­bodia, appear­ing on its national flag, and it is the country’s prime attrac­tion for visitors.

After spend­ing 3 days over Xmas 2008 in Siem Reap, and record­ing over 2 hours of foot­age of our explor­a­tion of these amaz­ing struc­tures, I couldn’t help but make a short film to cel­eb­rate them.

How­ever, Under­stand­ing Angkor is not easy, so I enlis­ted the help from the MP3 lib­rary of philo­sopher Alan Watts.

There is a lot more to say about Angkor, it is by far the best temple com­plex I have ever vis­ited, but this will await the blog entry on the area, which is 50% complete.

Hope you enjoy, and please leave a comment.

Temples of Angkor from Basho Mat­suo on Vimeo.

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