Phnom Bakheng

They say Phnom Bakheng is a circus. There aren’t any animals or magicians, but there’s still a crowd. The performance we have all come to see is by that old trickster, the sun. Here he sets on one side of the hill, as you stand atop it in the middle of a temple that goes entirely unnoticed. On the east side of the hill is the other act, the biggest draw of them all in this country. If you peer across the people and the considerable distance hard enough, you can make out Angkor Wat. The sun, admittedly, was quite gorgeous, but people-watching made for much better tourism here- not in the least because there were so many of them.

Next: pics of the photo-rush at Bakheng.