I visited three temples last week when I visited Siem Reap and I was awe struck by the magnificence of its architecture, the scope of the engineering ingenuity, the craftsmanship, the grace, the beauty…it was amazing. I just saw three and there are almost a thousand temples, ranging in scale from nondescript piles of brick rubble scattered through rice fields to the magnificent Angkor Wat, the world’s largest single religious monument. – the most significant site of Khmer architecture, the largest preindustrial city in the world,the size of modern Los Angeles. Just imagine that and it was built almost a 1,000 years ago.

Angkor in Cambodia was the seat of the Khmer Empire, which flourished from approximately the 9th to 15th centuries.