Cambodia: Lights and Alignments

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The sun rising over the central tower of Angkor Wat at dawn on the spring equinox.

The 'pyramid' of Angkor Wat, with its five lofty towers.

Entrance causeway and central towers of Angkor Wat, at sunrise, two days before the autumn equinox.

Angkor wat: the megalithic causeway viewed from inside the western entrance gate looking towards the temple.

The Axis of the arrow-straight causeway of Angkor Wat fades into the distance, reminiscent of the axis of the way of the Dead at Teotihuacan, Mexico. (see picture 6 in Mexico gallery 4.)

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