August 5th: Accidental Pilgrimage

"Sunrise at Angkor Wat"

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Cambodia Picture by esilbert
Travel story: August 5th: Accidental Pilgrimage

I think I just made an accidental pilgrimage. Now back in Bangkok, the past four days are a blur, where Monday morning I bought a ticket to Cambodia and in the afternoon I was stepping off a plane in Siem Reap. I was in a place I never thought I'd be, seeing things previously known to me only through films, like the ending of Wong Kar Wai's In The Mood For Love.



There I was, the next morning, as the outlines of ancient temple Angkor Wat rose like spears out of... More