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Tourism loss means peace and quiet for Angkor Park
Publication date 03 March 2021 | 21:22 | ICT

Angkor Wat is not as deathly quiet as it was back when it was rediscovered by the French explorer Henri Mouhot in the 1840s. He found it empty and uninhabited after centuries of gradual decay, disuse and disrepair with its ruins gradually

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