My first visit to the Cambodian city was in 1995, when it had just opened to international tourism. Returning there recently, it felt a bit like it did back then.
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Tourism loss means peace and quiet for Angkor Park
Wed, 3 March 2021
Angkor Wat is not as deathly quiet as it was back when it was rediscovered by the French explorer Henri Mouhot in the 1840s. He found it empty and uninhabited after centuries of gradual decay, disuse and disrepair with its ruins gradually being hidden by creeping jungle foliage.
Angkor Wat’s temples are also no longer the frightening place that they were in the 1970s back when Cambodia was spiralling into chaos and a brutal civil war. For much of that decade death was everywhere and the temples are pockmarked in places with bullet holes from that period.
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