Website offers choice of sunset sites at Angkor
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July 5, 2013, Friday
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CAMBODIA has joined hands with Australia in an effort to use the Internet to help preserve its fabled Angkor Wat temple complex.
As part of a master plan to limit damage to the complex, a recently opened website, Angkor Sunset Finder, will give tourists recommendations for where in the 400-square-kilometer complex one can watch spectacular sunsets.
A handful of well-publicized spots from which to watch the setting sun attract too many tourists, endangering the place's physical and aesthetic integrity. The website at angkorsunsets.com allows visitors to select several criteria, including what kind of atmosphere, distance from gate and crowd conditions, to get a recommendation of alternative perches from a listing of 34 vantage points.
Built between the ninth and 14th centuries, Angkor is not only a symbol of national pride, emblazoned on the Cambodian flag, but is also the country's biggest tourist attraction, receiving about 2 million visitors a year.
As part of a master plan to limit damage to the complex, a recently opened website, Angkor Sunset Finder, will give tourists recommendations for where in the 400-square-kilometer complex one can watch spectacular sunsets.
A handful of well-publicized spots from which to watch the setting sun attract too many tourists, endangering the place's physical and aesthetic integrity. The website at angkorsunsets.com allows visitors to select several criteria, including what kind of atmosphere, distance from gate and crowd conditions, to get a recommendation of alternative perches from a listing of 34 vantage points.
Built between the ninth and 14th centuries, Angkor is not only a symbol of national pride, emblazoned on the Cambodian flag, but is also the country's biggest tourist attraction, receiving about 2 million visitors a year.
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