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Intriguing Angkor

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While most of my posts about travel have mostly been trip reports, this trip report has both a prologue and an epilogue. This is all about my trip to see the Angkor temples in Cambodia. Part 1: Planning and run-up The Angkor temples had been someplace I always wanted to visit. It wouldn't be suitable for little kids so I thought I'd have to wait a while before a trip to see them would be possible. But I guess there is a time for everything. Or is it that 'when your mind wants something, the entire universe conspires to make it happen'. Either way I'm a happen person because it did happen and I climbed to the top of Angkor Wat. While this might not seem like much of an achievement at first, I must say I will take the satisfaction of reaching there as an important achievement in life.  A person who's disability level is pegged at over 90% persevering through sultry weather and scorching sun to climb 3 extremely steep staircases of a crowded ancien