Angkor Kiln in Cambodia

Angkor Wat, also known as Angkor Wat Temple, is located in Cambodia. Known as the national treasure of Cambodia, it is the largest temple in the world and the earliest Khmer architecture in the world. The original name of Angkor Wat is Vrah Vishnulok, which means "Temple of Vishnu", and the ancient Buddhist books in China call it "Sangxiang Buddha Hall".

/kloc-in the 0/2nd century, the king of Angkor, Suliye Pomo II, hoped to build a magnificent cave temple on the flat ground as the capital and national temple of Angkor. So, it took about 35 years to build the whole country. It is the best preserved building among Angkor's monuments, and is famous for its magnificent buildings and detailed reliefs.

1992, UNESCO listed Angkor as a world cultural heritage. Since then, Angkor Wat, as the top priority of Angkor Wat, has become a beautiful tourist card in Cambodia.

/kloc-For more than 0/00 years, countries all over the world, including China, have invested a lot of money and manpower in the maintenance project of Angkor Wat to protect this world cultural heritage. The shape of Angkor Wat has become a national symbol of Cambodia and is displayed on the national flag of Cambodia.

You can clearly see the overall layout of Angkor Wat by taking a hot air balloon from the air: a rectangular moat as bright as a mirror, surrounded by a rectangle full of depressions.

Plan of Angkor Wat

An oasis of lush trees, surrounded by a temple wall. The building in the center of the oasis is the Hindu Jintan in Xumi Mountain in Angkor Wat Temple.

The temple of Angkor Wat faces east and west. A long dike from the west to the east crosses the moat and reaches the west gate of the temple wall. Through the west gate, it is a long road, through the green grass, to the west gate of the temple.

On the top floor of the pyramid-shaped temple, we can see five pagodas, such as five plum blossoms on the dice. The four pagodas are smaller and arranged in four corners. There stands a big pagoda in the middle, which is similar to the layout of India's King Kong throne pagoda, but the distance between the five pagodas is wide, and there are corridors between them. In addition, each floor of the King Kong altar in Xumi Mountain is surrounded by cloisters, which is the architectural feature of Angkor Wat. The steps there are steep, and it takes hands and feet to climb them easily. This means that people need to go through many hardships to reach heaven. Only one has a handrail, because during the colonial period, an official's wife fell down the stairs and died.