Angkor

Ankor Wat According to Don Bosco

"Nagara" or "The Holy City" is a Sanskrit word. In Thai it came to be nakhon and in Khmer it is pronounced ongkor. Angkor is associated to a renown Asian civilization of the 9th to 14th centuries: The Khmer Empire that dominated the Indochina Peninsula, today Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.

The center of that civilization was Angkor, the Holy City. It is located 320 kilometers (199 miles) at the northwest of Phnom Penh and at the northwest site of the Sap Lake. It is near of what is today the provincial capital of Siem Riep. Angkor Wat is one of the biggest religious complex of the world.

The Angkor complex is located at the north of Tonle Sap (translated means "The Great Lake"). At its north is the Kulen hills.

There are many ways to arrive to the Archaeological Complex of Angkor: by plain from Phnom Pehn, Sihanoukville and Bangkok. By road from Bangkok via the Arayapraeth-Poipet border or from Phnom Penh.