Angkor Wat - The Problem They Won't Show You 🇰🇭
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- Опубліковано 9 гру 2022
- Me and Iris ventured around the ruins of the 900-year-old, mysterious lost civilization of Angkor Wat and wanted to capture the true experience you'll have visiting this grand, stunning piece of history.
Despite its beauty, there are some problems (like every other place in the world) and we felt you should know because... after all, it's quite an expensive attraction for many travelers. Everyone just seems to show all the good bits. So, here's our real experience at Angkor Wat - one of the most beautiful pieces of architecture in the entire world.
Our driver was incredible and there are lots of pure people in Cambodia who are happy to help, if you're ever in the area please consider giving him a booking, his service was incredible compared to some and he deserves it.
He has confirmed he would like to share his number(s):
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Awesome trip - so jealous! Thanks for uploading!
It was great and many more of Cambodia to come! Hope you enjoyed and thanks for watching
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wonderful thanks for showing Angkor wat -Cambodia
Welcome 🙏 to Cambodia 🇰🇭
Thank you for visiting Cambodia the kingdom of wonder
The land of 2000 years history
Many of our kings took more than 400 years to build this great city, which embodied many of Cambodia's historical stories and inscribed them on the country's inscriptions, before Thailand began their history years
I hope you will remember this trip and come back here one day again
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Great place and a vast, interesting range of history, would love to visit again
These are so beautiful temples , Thank you for visiting Cambodia
yes the temples are incredible!
So, what's actually the problem? Desperately poor people politely offering things?
The chap who approached you at Angkor Wat is an official, well trained tour guide. I employed one for the first day of touring 3 temples (was recommended by a friend) and it was not only useful but really enjoyable. I learned a great deal not just about the temples but aboutancient and recent history, and the varied and challenging life of a local family man. He took me to a good food place, explained so much. As you started mentioning it, I actually thought you were going to go more deeply into the forced resumption/relocation of local communities. Landgrabs with a derisory compensation. But you accepted 'Govt gives free houses?' Actually, a fraction of the land price and a few pieces of tin, meanwhile people lose their gardens/houses/communities. Now THAT is a story 'they won't show you'.
As you go around Angkor Wat,, you're 'wondering' about things a guide could have explained to you (including the sources for his information)- the engineering, the rotation of roles between workers (not slaves) etc. The musicians you show are landmine victims. A guide could have explained a great deal about the complexity of the civil wars and ongoing landmine issues. Seems you did at least get to pick the brains of your tuk tuk driver a bit, so you didn't miss out on all the details.
And Windsor Castle has no weapons? You must have missed out on a proper tour of that too !
Thanks for the comment appreciate the time you put into it. I’m sure you had a great time and I know the guy who approached me was official. Not saying they are scammers if that’s what you’re getting at. I am sharing my experience and a part people cut out of their videos (amongst all the positive great bits). After a ticket you will be asked for money again multiple times.
The temples are fantastic but it’s annoying to have to walk through that after you’ve paid quite a bit already. I cut out another few occasions it happening. Not the end of the world… no you’re completely right, but it is something people do not show and I’d rather share that truth than edit it all out. The harassing in Cambodia for money is next level (close to Morocco bad). Edit: not whole of Cambodia, the tourist regions like SR, SV, PP etc. Take the guy who waited 20 minutes for me to finish my meal after saying no clearly a few times. When the chap started asking me to help a local it felt a lot like this situation and I politely declined, but he kept going. I still politely declined, went on my way and enjoyed my myself regardless.
As for the relocation point:
We did get further into it and how he thought it was a bad thing but the language barrier didn’t really translate well. I later found out about the forced relocation to homes of lesser value which is a bad thing. But then I guess you could also argue the point of it bringing a lot of money to Cambodia if they clear up the site. I personally think it’s wrong.
On the landmine point:
This was described in the video if I’m not wrong? We talk about them being injured from land mines. I don’t fully get what he said at the time, but I understood when editing. Sometimes you don’t fully pick up on things in the moment with the language barriers which is cool! My bad if it’s not translated correctly.
And yeah my bad on the Windsor castle comment! My mistake. I don’t remember it when going as a young lad.
Glad to hear you had a good time. I did too! Hope to return some day and see it all again. I’m sure it will be even better with a tour!
I do feel like it’s almost set up so you have to get a tour though… they could easily implement information plaques with all the money the place gets. But I imagine they get a commission from tours? Correct me if I’m wrong. But if true that’s pretty lucrative.
You must understand these things do dampen the experience for people. Albeit only a little and it’s minor when you actually see the temple, but I spoke to a lot of tourists who had the same exact complaints.
Anyways thanks for watching and taking the time to comment sharing some more knowledge. If we disagree no worries!
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Thank you for visiting my country 🙏🇰🇭🥰 Cambodia the Kingdom Of Wonder. Thank you very much 🙏
Thank you for visiting Cambodia 😊 you did good for speaking Khmer. 👍👍
Thanks! I tried to order in Khmer all the time I was there and learned the prices of things, different meats and foods just by taking a little time to google translate before ordering and try to say it haha
Love you guys bringing such a playful vibe and thanks for visiting my country :)
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Enjoying the beatiful temples man and you're thinking about Leeds Amouries 🤣
The Leeds armouries are a national treasure
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Please correct my mistake I am learning Thai so might as well reply in it
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I shared with my Khmer wife your experience inside of the Angkor Wat temples = being accosted by multiple staff to purchase “photo” + “tour guide” + etc… after you have spent a large amount to have access to this site. I described how aggravating it is to us western tourists and is so unpleasant, it may hurt the Cambodian tourist economy.
I learned it is not allowed for the service staff at Angkor Wat to hustle tourists like this inside of the park. I hope some one from the Cambodian government sees this video and takes action!
Sorry it put a damper on your experience.
Thanks for sharing! It didn’t ruin my day at all. You can’t ruin the beauty of the temples, but no one has shared this part of it and I thought it needed to be so people know it’s going to happen when they get there. I genuinely thought it wouldn’t because of the price, but eh… is what it is. I hope it improves!
If the guy didn't want a guide, he didn't want a guide. You do you he will do him. Simples
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I think the relocation is to try and enhance the heritage site as they have a major unesco meeting coming up next year ..
Yeah, I heard about this too. There are 2 sides of the story. What I gathered from speaking with Cambodians during the trip is that they're essentially forcing locals off the sites without another choice
@@wehatethecold Check For Riel on UA-cam for some enlightenment on this matter. Basically, people just squat anywhere after the Khmer Rouge era in 1979. UNESCO said that if the additional structures built by these squatters aren’t removed, they will remove AW from their list of World Heritage Sites. The Cambodian government realizing that the listing and the tourist dollar are important to the economy of the nation as a whole gave each family hard titles to land in another area in Siem Reap and provided monthly stipends to help with the move. It’s a sacrifice for the people who have to move but it was decided that it had to be done.
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All these hawkers are to be expected. Everyone is chasing the Dollar. If one is interested in a guided tour it could be a good deal to hire a guide. Personally I’d just say ‘hi’ and ‘bye’ to these persons and then ignore them.
Amazing fact for you, every visible surface of the Angkor Wat temple is covered in hand carved reliefs. Think about that for a moment...
That is incredible. The temples are truly one of the most remarkable things I've seen
Going to Angkor Wat without tour guide is like reading the book title without reading the whole book.
Yeah, I understand that. There should definitely be more signs that share the story of the temples, rather than having to purchase a tour. But eh I'm sure that will happen in the future.
Signs would slow people down and make it impossible to walk around the temple as the corridor get very small. There is so much history and information there you need a guide. It is still a working temple hence covering up, plus it's disrespectful to yell in them.
Just go and enjoy what you want to enjoy at Angkor Wat. Let the government solve whatever the problem they have at hand in order to maintain the unesco status. They have to ask a fair amount of people to a different location, and the government gave them free land and build homes for them for free, including infrastructure, like school, hospital, and market etc. But they are in the process of completing the new community in a new location.
Indian govt has allocated an amount to rebuild or renovate all Hindu temples outside of india including combodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia . In G20 summit in Bali this was announced .
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Dear! if you understand how Indian GVT employing the CAST people in India nowadays, I personally believe that the Khmer Empire built Angkor Wat was then very much similar to what Indian GVT's does employ the Cast people.✌
Don't comment on things which u don't understand..talk to locals .. don't show ur ignorance here
when you visit Bayan you have to know they contraction on Ex river Semrap.
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Yes, the process of Indianisation of Cambodia is quite interesting. There are some good videos on the topic here on UA-cam. As for the topic of the forced relocations, the government says it's UNESCO's wish to have the houses cleared, UNESCO says that's not the case, so who says the truth? 😬
Those tour guide are from the ministry of tourism they’re not a scammer if you don’t need them they won’t bother you at all, but some other countries will do worse than that. If you don’t want to help local people that’s fine but just open mind
Oh yeah, they're not scammers. Not what I was trying to say at all. The pushy nature of the sales is what is annoying. After you pay quite a bit you're getting sold again. Bracelets, photos, tours etc. It didn't ruin my day, because you can't ruin the beauty of it and once you leave the main temple, there isn't much of anyone trying to push sales on you.
And not all that I don't want to help locals. I hired my Tuk Tuk, tipped him generously at the end of the day, I've even recommended him in my description for others to book, bought food from local stalls etc.
Just highlighting that you will get constantly asked by many people trying to sell you stuff at the temples after paying for a ticket. No one shares this. Or the fact that locals are getting forcefully removed from the site.
Also many other countries do a lot worse, I agree! Morroco is hell for it. But I would still put it in the video if it was any other country (including my own). Rather share the true experience for people to see than all the overly positive stuff you see online.
I am Hindu from India what a Cambodian showed you at Ankor Wat is correct but RAM showed in the carving is a mythological god a belief in the carving he looks very different from what he is described in India meaning he is just an mythology so his image can can be created imaginatively
Khmer did have slaves, but craftsmen for such details as carvings and building design. There are inscriptions along temples for those people.
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we discover Dinosaur bone in KosKong province.
If someone gets ripped off in Cambodia nine times out of ten it'll be via a tuk tuk driver.
Hahaha yup! It's every country you gotta be careful of the Taxis and the Tuk Tuks (not all, just some)
U live in so called first world rich countries .. don't expect same treatment in developing so called 3rd countries.. people here r not rich...they work hard to earn 3 times meal.. understand their situation.. COVID was hard for these local guides, people...
Hey, thanks for the comment. I don't expect it to be the same, just highlighting to others it will happen. However, when considering the price is very close to a lot of popular attractions in the west, I would have expected this less on the inside of the temples.
I mean a Yellowstone Park ticket is less for a 7-day ticket at $35. The top of the rock is $40. Even the Colosseum of Rome is less than $30.
They could easily put up signs, or make a lower-priced audio guide, or make a dedicated stand for tours at the ticket desk, rather than have them dotted around the place. It feels like it's set up this way to exact more money. I imagine the tour guides have to pay to be on-site or maybe they take a commission? Correct me if I'm wrong on that, please.
That's why if anyone stops you with a Hello! or anything you don't give them anything back, a hello if you really want to, but it stops there. All their questions on where you're from aren't genuine, they just want to get a way in, to build rapport, and then sell you something.
I learned this one quickly after haha! Thanks for the tip
@@wehatethecold It's sad because you want to be polite and friendly but eventually you learn that they only want money and sometimes they can be quite intrusive. Like the other day in Phnom Penh I was trying to cross the road (a busy one) and this tuk tuk driver kept on asking me Tuk tuk? even though I was ignoring him. He distracted me and I almost got run over by a scooter! In Siem Reap I have had bad experiences with some tuk tuk drivers like one following me to my hotel even though I had been dropped off at another location and messaging me every day to go on tours even though I had told him I would message him when I had time. After 3 days I had to repeat the same thing I had to block him! Many will tell you though that it's you not to understand the local culture and be entitled, go figure 😑😑
7:30 is corpse where we keep ppl when die
I don’t think the guy wanted to screw you over I think it’s the language barrier
How many kilometers did you take by tuk tuk? 15$ look so expensive.i'm also cambodian.
Hey, thanks for the comment! He drove us all day. The rate the hotels charge is $25 for the day around the temples so we thought it was a decent deal in the end.
I tipped him at the end too so it was $20 total. I feel he deserved it, he was very helpful and felt genuine. Took me around different places after too. Wanted to get a haircut get food etc. Didn't record those bits.
Probably still maybe a bit expensive but it is what it is
Brilliant! 🤣 The monkeys won't eat your face, they are part of the overall experience.
Hahaaha gotta be careful man! I saw them chase a couple people down, try to steal people's phones etc. maybe not get hurt, but they are confident buggers
A bulky headphone would deter them.
If it's a Hindu temple and as I know that khamer was a Hindu civilization I doubt they were mere slaves becoz u see slaves everywhere in each civilization don't just imagine there were slaves in indus civilization too .. we never heard about these slaves .. ppl usually think these are just temples it's not true .. they were banks , education centre , cultural activities centre too .. gurukul system was related to temples in india few places they still have ... Other than that it might possible they made them work as a day and night ...becoz u never know every king is different no matter what civilization he is from . If u wanna see real art work come to India check out AJANTA AND ELLORA CAVES AND KARNTAKA TEMPLES .
I went to Angkor wat in 2017 I bought the ticket for 3 days for 35$ it's gonna be nice if they have the plate described in the story without hiring a guide. By the way, I came back the next day and hired local guide because I wanna know about it more
the sand stone is moved by slaves by the craft on the wall were crafted by the khmer artist …..
ahh I did think there would be some architects or artists who were not considered slaves working on the artworks. Thanks for clearing that up
Sand stone is moved by elephants 🐘
Well, do you want the temple (and the precious UNESCO status that presumably helps preserve it or do you want tourist shops and locals making it lose that status?
Without additional help, much of what the place has to offer for tourism might get ruined anyhow, right? So its a bit of a catch 22.....lose the status, lose the help keeping it preserved, less people come when things get "nasty" or evict all of those people to preserve the site according to UNESCO guidelines.
Really, tourist have been doing pretty bad things there, from what I can remember. These places need protecting, and they have been told for years and years that they would have to leave.
I just looked this up on google and the Guardian had an article about a woman who sold all of her stuff to open a shop in the temple complex....by the end of the year, it will be gone. On one hand, I feel bad for her. On the other hand, she would have known all along that people were going to get evicted. Before she even got the shop. She was just banking on the government not following through, and she shouldnt have.
If you really learn about Cambodia history, you know it full well that every generations of Cambodia is all about dictatorship and social classification. This is real. Look at the temple. Many people died to build those temples for the king. Cambodians joined Khmer Rouge due to the king's call. Today, they are friends to capitalism because they need the money. Yet, social classification is still alive and well today. You don't see it. That's why they say that Khmer Rouge or something similar will come back one day. I'm not trying to play politics here. People around the world today seem to think that Khmer Rouge is a group of people who controlled the whole country and its population. Khmer Rouge is not just a group of people. They were more than a half of the country. Those leaders managed to bring those peasants and farmers to join them.
Cambodia has a very interesting but dark history,. I would like to learn more about it and visit again when I have more knowledge
@@wehatethecold If you want to learn about the culture, go to live in rural villages and meet everyone. You will find some average, some poor and some are very poor. Many of those poor peasants had to send their children to work for those average people in the town or city as servants. They never have a chance to go to school. Yes, poor people work for richer people to see their parents and their family survive one day at a time. Then they keep pass on their poverty from one generation to another. Some even borrow money to help their family. That loan comes with a price that they have to pay. Many of them work day in and day out just to pay that loan. Some continue to get more loan to survive. They get themselves deeper and deeper. At the end of the harvest season, they only see very little because the bulk had gone to pay the interest of the loan. The revolving door of this kind can be found every where in rural villages.
@@wehatethecold well but western countries like USA, Australia,canada, UK ,south america has more dark history.. indigenous people almost wiped out.. colonisation..racism..
@@antriksX everyone has a dark history and it's true as a Cambodian I'm truly sorry for other countries to suffer this way just like us
Why do you say Buddhism has been tainted?
lots of idols to worship, and pray to rather than meditate and self-inquire. lucky buddhas, leaving money for blessings, ghost houses, and ghost music.
some of the temples seem like they've been made soley for tourist purposes too. there was some over the top stuff in thailand and it felt like it was exaggerated to bring in more tourists.
no idea whether this is the case or not, just my observation. After all, I am a man on the internet with an opinion, I could be wrong.
all other religions have these too, so please don't think I'm attacking Buddhism - it's probably the religion I align with the most.
For instance, Jesus statues are everywhere when, in the bible, it clearly states not to have an idol for worship and loads of other stuff too.
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Hey man! How are you doing?
Our cat toc video will be out soon! Got a lot of content of Cambodia to edit first but can’t wait to release it. Thanks for being so hospitable
Khmer people were Hinduism but we converted to buddhism that's why we got cursed from Hinduism God
This angkorwatt temple should be destroyed and replaced with a modern version like angkorwatt city modern version
You mean they should make it an operating city again or just demolish it and build it as it was?
The main cause they abandoned the city is the war with Thailand.
Ah interesting! Could you share some links to the history of this? I'd love to read more about it
@@wehatethecold you could search it yourself by the words as following: the fall of angkor, the war between Khmer and Siam etc.
It’s because of the climate change and then the wars . Siam is far behind when Angkor golden era stand still
@@kaingchhaylong2762 What is the historical text that mentioned this ?
Records from who?
Just enjoy the site and leave politic out of it. Otherwise, you are the problem!
Firstly, these people have had little to no income during COVID, so please cut them a little slack. And, Buddism is NOT a religion, it's a way of life.
Buddhism is a religion not a way of life
Fair game
Everything on the wall is related to Ramayana and ancient Indian martial arts.
I don't like these khmer people brought in buddish statues into Angorwat, and burning incense smell bad in angorwat.
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