When and How to go to Cambodia
General Information about Cambodia : visas, health, safety, Weather for Siem Reap, Holidays, festivities and festivals
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The Angkor Site on essentials
Know Priority temples, Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, Bayon, Ta Prohm, Pre Rup
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How to arrange your visit
Consult the whole list of temples from Angkor and from Roluos classified according to location and style
How to come to Siem Reap and how to visit temples
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History
Know the Chronology of Modern Cambodian History and the History of Angkor
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Glossary
| Angkor : |
a royal city, city capital |
| Apsara : |
a celestial nymph or dancer |
| Banteay : |
a citadel or fortress (some temples are called Banteay, Banteay Kdei, Banteay Samre, ...) |
| Baray : |
a reservoir, dyke filled by rain and diversion of rivers |
| Devata or Tevoda : |
a deity looking for an Apsara that is often a guardian |
| Garuda : |
a deity, enemy of Nagas, with a human body and birdlike wings, a beak and claws of an eagle |
| Gopura : |
an elaborate gateway to a temple widely used in Angkor and in South India |
| Mont Meru : |
the mytical mountain at the center of the Universe, home of the gods, around which the continents and the oceans are ordered |
| Naga : |
a semi-deity, a serpent-god of the waters (guarantee of prosperity), often depicted with several heads |
| Phnom : |
a mountain or hill (from which Phnom Penh) |
| Prasat : |
a tower |
| Preah : |
sacred, holy (from which Preah Khan) |
| Shiva or Civa : |
Brahmanic god (former Hinduism), at the same time creator and destroyer |
| Srei : |
a woman (from which Banteay Srey) |
| Stupa : |
Buddhist monument of funeral or commemorative nature |
| Ta : |
an ancestor (from which Ta Prohm) |
| Thom : |
big (from which Angkor Thom) |
| -varman : |
kings's names took this suffix meaning protection (from which Jayavarman, Suryavarman, ...) |
| Vat or Wat : |
a pagoda or temple (from which Angkor Wat) |
| Vishnu : |
Brahmanic god (former Hinduism), the protector, generally mounted on garuda, and depicted with four arms |
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This Linga from Bayon shows clearly the Hindu call of temples. A linga is a symbolic representation of Shiva, phallus-shaped. It also symbolises the builder monarch's independence and power
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One of the several Gopura from Angkor
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