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World Star Hotel
Tel: (855-23)
724907
Fax: (855-23)
427551
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Place of Interest in Cambodia:
Angkor
Wat
Siem Reap is a bustling tourist
attraction due to its proximity to the Angkor
Temple Complex, the world's largest religious
monument.
This magnificent
example of classical Khmer architecture combines
Indian and Indochinese culture and the accumulated
experience of centuries in one of the world's
most beautiful monuments.
This huge monument of palaces and temples was built on the sprawling
alluvial plain to the north of Tonle Sap.
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Banlung
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Is the captial of Rattanakiri province
and approximately 600 km north-east of Phnom
Penh. The area is best known for its exciting
ecotourism opportunities.
It is home to hill tribes like
the Jorais, Tampuans and Kreungs, who live
an isolated life carrying on traditions that
have endured through time. Wildlife is plentiful,
with manys varieties of flora and fauna.
Tigers, which roam freely in the deep jungles,
are a protected species.
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Royal
Palace
One block further south on Saigon
Boulevard, which runs parallel with but inland fromthe
Tonle Sap, stands theRoyal Place.
The present-day buildings were constructed
earlier this century on the site of the Banteay
Kev, a citadel built in 1813.
The ground plan and style of the palace
building and of the temple area which is
separated from them by a wall , are strongly
influenced by the Royal Palace in Bangkok.
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National
Museum
The National Museum (formerly the Albert Sarraut
Museum), north of the Royal Place on 13th street,
was built of red brick by the French in 1917-1920,
in a pseudo-khmer style. It is a rectangle, 210 ft
by 170 ft, round a central courtyard.
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In 1975, the Khme Rouge drove
the museum's management out of Phnom Penh
and the director was killed. The collections
were decimated by the Khmer Rouge and left
in total disarray. From the beginning of
1979 it was possible to carry out the most
urgent repairs to the building and to rearrange
the exhibits.
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