Sunrise at Angkor Wat | Carved by Women? Pt. 3
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- This is our final episode in a 3 part series of exploring the Ancient City of Angkor. In this episode we capture sunrise at the actual Angkor Wat Temple which is said to be the best sunrise spot in the world. It is also the largest temple in the world at that. Then we take you deeper into the ancient city to see a temple so intricately detailed that it is believed that only a woman could have carved its pink sandstone walls. The name is Banteay Srei, but commonly referred to as "Lady Temple". Last, but not least, enjoy a stroll through the rubble of Preah Khan Temple and the beautiful ruins that still remain as the sun sets on a perfect last day here in the heart of Cambodia.
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In the video, Charlie and Liz from the Adventure Closet explore the Angkor Wat complex in Cambodia, one of the largest religious monuments in the world. They marvel at the size of the complex, which spans 400 square kilometers, and discuss the mystery surrounding the ancient Khmer empire that built it over 900 years ago and then abandoned it.
They start their journey before sunrise, aiming to see the main temple at Angkor Wat. They emphasize the importance of keeping tickets ready for multiple ticket checks throughout the park. As they approach the temple, they note the large crowds gathered for the sunrise and the impressive moat and courtyard leading to the temple itself.
Charlie and Liz describe the temple's massive stone structures and speculate on how the stones were transported from 40 kilometers away. They decide not to climb the central spire, which is 28 stories high, due to the crowds and instead focus on the intricate carvings and architecture.
They express some frustration with the number of tourists, which they feel detracts from the experience. Despite this, they acknowledge the temple's beauty and grandeur. They also mention the heat and humidity, advising viewers to stay hydrated and take breaks.
The video also includes a visit to a smaller, more remote temple made of pink sandstone, known as the "Lady Temple," due to the intricate carvings believed to have been done by women. They explore the temple's library and admire the original weathered carvings.
Charlie and Liz encounter vendors selling souvenirs and discuss the discomfort of being persistently approached to buy items. They then visit Preah Khan Temple, noting the destroyed carvings and the massive size of the complex.
The video concludes with Charlie and Liz acknowledging the limits set by the intense heat and humidity, expressing a wish to explore more but also a sense of satisfaction with what they've seen. They thank viewers for watching and encourage them to like, subscribe, and check out their Patreon.
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Thank you all for watching our Angkor Wat series. If you missed any we have them linked in the video description. Did you have a favorite temple we showed?
Thanks!
What???!!! Daniel, you are so very generous. Thank you so much for this. You already have shown us so much endless support. We just can't thank you enough. 🙏
This series is amazing! Thank you.
You're amazing! Thanks for watching them.
Beautiful, just think about ancient people used to live and walk here, 1000s years ago.
It was breathtaking and mind blowing all at once. Thank you for watching.
Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!
Thanks friend!
thank for sharing
Thanks for watching!
I hope it the best experience and beautiful memories for you ❤️
It really was. Thank you!
Amazing Video❤…glad you enjoying there. 13:00 Angkor window shadow will look like Angkor shape when the sun shine in the right direction.
That light coming through was pure magic. Thank you for your comment and for watching.
That was so interesting! It’s amazing that the carvings lasted through time. Thank you and be safe in the heat. ❤️
We were shocked we were allowed to walk through and touch almost everything. This place is a treasure.
This building is fascinating and the biggest one out of the three parts. Thank you for taking us on this journey!
It was such a treat to be able to film all this. Thank you for watching.
@@TheAdventureCloset You’re welcome! Both of you have a great day and weekend!
Wow, you guys did an amazing job on this series! My (Jill) favorite temple was probably the “LadyTemple”. The color of the stone and the details just made it stand out from the others. They were all truly marvelous though and will hopefully be around and appreciated for their splendor for many many more years.
Thank you! We had to cut so much footage and these were still long. Glad they were entertaining enough to keep people interested.
Thank you so much for this beautiful video of Khmer civilization ❤❤❤🤩🤩🤩🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽😁😁😁🥰🥰🥰🥰
Our pleasure!
Amazing Temple
It really is. Thank you for joining us.
Awesome video
Thanks! Glad you came along for the adventure.
Angkor Wat is amazing, looks like there were a lot of people coming into the temple…..glad you enjoyed experiencing the temples of Cambodia😃
Again, you are so lucky you saw it before all the crowds.
Woooow, incredible place, so speechless throughout this whole place. This intro was well done, nice editing Charlie and I loved the voice over Liz! Loud cicadas were ao loud, more thsn here! That snake railing is so impressive and cool, and the walkway stones are big. Hard to move that many. I love reflection shots! Priceless moments, you can feel the energy here! So beautiful and outstanding! Amazing what people can do! Definitely hard to take this all in, so much work, time, emotions, efforts, hardships! Love all the sounds of nature around you. I wonder if that swampy area that's magical used to be clear and a good water source. What a special special extra special place. Healing and good vibrations here!!!! At the beginning I said speechless, this comment wad not that, lol, it's so speechless I'm speechmore!
This was definitely one of the most amazing places we've seen. Wish we knew how it was done. Some of the blocks were just ginormous. Thanks for watching! We loved your speechless comment. Haha!
Another outstanding video, it has me mesmerized. You should win some kind of award for this 3 part Temple Series ❤❤❤
Our award is having viewers and supporters like you. Thank you so much for joining us on these adventures.
Your videography in this series was top notch. All through it I felt like I was walking there with you. The temples were amazing. I'm glad you got to see the main one even though it was so crowded. Sometimes that's something you just have to put up with. It was definitely the star of the show, but I honestly liked most of the others better, where you could get a little more up close and personal. My favorite overall was the one with the elephant carving in the last video. Safe travels as you continue your adventure.
Thank you so much. We had so much fun filming and photographing. The stills alone are in the hundreds. We enjoyed the lesser crowded temples more too snd thar elephant with the person hanging on was one of our favorites too. Just an incredible view into their lives back then.
Can’t wait to watch this one in a little bit. I know it’s going to be amazing. You guys make me feel like I’m there with you guys. ❤❤❤
Thank you. We love bringing you along. Enjoy!
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@@TheAdventureCloset it was amazing. You guys do amazing filming and getting shots without so many people. It makes it more enjoyable. The sounds are amazing. My mind wanders as it ponders the world this was when these were created. Wows
I can't wait to look in your eyes and see how this trip has changed you.
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I won't know where to begin to tell you. It has been the time of out lives.
Outstanding! Thank you so much for enduring that oppressive heat. The temples all, were sooo beautiful and so much more impressive than I could have ever imagined! The main temple, even just from the outside, was sooo much more than I could ever hope for! It was just phenomenal!!! And the other temples, the women's temples, and the others were amazing! I'm just in awe of all of it. Thank you guys sooo much!!! It was all more amazing and an experience that I will never forget! Thank you Liz and Charlie, for giving me this opportunity that without you, I never would have❣️
Lisa you are so welcome. We think about you so much when we make these adventures. We're not stopping anytime soon either. ❤️
That temple was so big and all the details took my breath away! I bet the ride out helped cool you down 😆
The bike is so nice to get on after melting away. The temples were worth it though. Just couldn't believe this place was real.
Wow thank you both so much for taking us with you, showing us what you get to experience in person, I remember the relentless sounds of Cicadas,! The temples, were vandalized, what a shame on humanity, and even today we see the lack of respect for creation everywhere, I saw a person in a neighborhood put garbage in a well manicured hedge! He could not carry his empty goods in the sack and place it where it could be taken to the dump. so he buried it in a hedge! the edacity hits me with the impact of the damage done to faces on stone! Its immoral. With homeless people everywhere now, their camps are trash heap and a din of danger. robbers wait for you at grocery stores. and there are beggars at every stop light. you now have to stop your car with a full car length between you so that you may have the chance to get away from active car hijacking in traffic. Civilization has not changed! the heat in a humid climate like this is totally unbearable without a fan, I am glad you drink lots of water, and am happy your are both well enough to endure it. There were times in Puerto Rico the air was heavy with moisture it was hard to breathe it.
It is very sad to see people litter like that when a trash can is on every corner. The world is definitely like the ☯️ with a balance of good and evil. Speaking of that, have you ever made a yingyang mandala? That would look awesome with your skills.
Thanks for your to Angkor what
Our pleasure!
Good morning Cambodia❤❤❤❤
Isn't she lovely?
Angkor Wat is a huge temple. After two visits I haven’t been able to walk around the grounds. It’s too hot and humid. My next visit will be in a cooler season.
We said the same. Just need a suit made of ice packs. Haha! Makes it even more mind boggling how they built it in that heat.
My favorite temple... that's a tough one. I really liked the two temples in this video after you visited the main temple. I really liked the temple in the last video, also with the epic tree growing out of it. I would have been avoiding the crowds, too, and trying to see less viewed temples. The humidity looked unbearable. I hope this video series netted you two some more viewers. I can't wait to see how you two top Angkor Wat 😉 Bye now 👋
The trees coming out of the stone were just insane. It really shows how long it was abandoned. Thanks for watching. We've had some crazy travel days and are just now getting caught up.
I am so happy that you guys were able to go see everything you are seeing. This is a trip of a lifetime for you.
Thank you. We wouldn't be here if it weren't for this type of encouragement. We'll never forget this.
So, so beautiful. Amazing photography and great details given. This could be on the travel channel.
I don’t know which of you is the writer, or maybe you both are-I just know I saw writing talent in a lot of your comments and responses to people in the comments. The reason I’m bringing that up is I’m wondering if you’d ever want to write about your travels, like in narration or story form-I’ve read a lot of cool travel novels elsewhere (“Stoned with Savages” was one), where people just describe their experiences. Just wondering if you’d ever thought about it. And you can add all the beautiful photos! I’d proofread for free! 😂❤
Oh you are far too kind! I, Liz do a lot of the writing for the channel. I am actually working on a book. It just might be years before it ever sees light of day. A travel book has been on my mind too, so thank you for the encouragement and even noticing that I like to write. Gotta read the book you mentioned as well.
As beautiful as most of the places are, the Lady temple (?) has been my favorite. It seems that much of the carvings have fared better than most places too. I liked the main temple but like you two, found it too peopley. I'm so glad you took us on this adventure!
It was so much more detailed too. We were pretty fond of the lady temple as well. Thanks for coming along for all of it. Wish we could have done more days there.
I think those nagas are built is to protect the temples. I think it takes back in ancient time with birth of Khmer. Like the story of Prince Thong and Queen Soma of Funan. Which Queen Soma represent of naga from the Funan. We call her Neang neak in Khmer.
So many stories to learn from here. Thank you for sharing and watching.
Epic epic epic
Awesome! We are so stoked you felt that way about our video. Thank you.
There are so many missing statues from many temples that got stolen n sold for a dirt cheap price and ending up at national museums like Europe n America and such.... The tried hard for statues to be returned, the good news is there are some returned❤
We hope they get more back. The Khmer people have had enough taken from them.
Cambodia welcome to all turist a round the world 🇰🇭🫶
Thank you Cambodia. We loved it here. 🇰🇭❤️🇰🇭
Angkor Wat / City Temples never sleep until now. Rumors said they're always monks taking care the temples even after the city was abandoned years ago. I had a chance to visit the temples way back in mid 60s with my family as a teenager and sadly most of them did not survive the genocide there. Only memory lives on.
Happy and safe travels from a genocide survivor ✌️
Wow! You are so lucky to have seen it way back then. I bet there were very few others around. Sad about the genocide. So needless and such a setback for Cambodia.
I can't get over how tall some of these temples are. How much work was involved in building it blows my mind away. No tools like we have now. All basically done by hand. One wonders how, how did they do it ? I really liked the lady carving temple :) Wow they really do hound you to buy something ! I am sorry it is so hot there❤🔥Your journey is over and you seen a ton of amazing things and places all in the heat. Yous are awesome🥰
Sometimes we would just stop and say "how?". The work must have taken several lifetimes for the different artist. Done with such skill too. Thanks for watching the whole series. We know it was a lot to take in.
I've learned from old documentaries videos, the reason was that there had been a big humen disaster like FLU OR VIRUSES occured that killed big masses of people, so the remaining survivors had to fled or abandoned The Angkor City in order to survive. I think you missed the best part of Angkor Wat by not going up there, we went up there in March 2024, ❤❤❤
Dangit! We totally should have gone up then. It was just so peopley and we are a tad introverted. Lol! What you said about an illness driving people out makes a lot of sense.
Most of the status been looded you can fine in museum and some in the wealthy around the world. The Khmer government got some back still a lot around the word in museum.
Hope they get back what belongs to them.
Hope they get back what belongs to them.
Those statues were decapitated not because of any historical religious conflicts but rather because of looting. Sadly many statues were stolen and sold to art collectors and museums around the world. Those that were too big to move, heads were chopped off and stolen instead.
Wondet how they did it. Some were such clean cuts. Lots to speculate here, but it is true about all the looting. Sad for Khmer people it all belongs to.
Amazing but sad that because those buildings differed from their religion, the heads were removed.. in my opinion, it destroyed the antiquity of the place. Sort of like tearing down statues and renaming pancake mix because it doesn’t agree with some peoples thinking and they want to change history.
There's so many theories about it, but either way it is always sad to see missing pieces of history. Hoping Cambodia can recover some of it. They're working on it.
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Naga( dragon )not the snake multi 7 heads king of the Naga only SE Asian especially Cambodia in the old day the king of Chinese know only in Cambodia still have dragon. They the Chinese build Budish temple on the mountain in Cambodia we don't know but found out later they want the dragon fly over China for good luck the Khmer was fool by the Chinese to build the temple on top of th mountain.
Interesting. Thank you for sharing what you know. We love learning about this place.
The first place may have had a few more people than yall like 🤣, they need all those million people just to carve the temple , you rockin a skirt on a motor bike ?
I rode side saddle while wearing the skirt. It's much easier and kind of fun, though not the safest. Yes, those crowds kill all the fun even though we are part of the crowd too. Lol
Thank you so much for this beautiful video of Khmer civilization ❤❤❤🤩🤩🤩🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽😁😁😁🥰🥰🥰🥰
Thank you for watching! 🇰🇭❤️🇰🇭