{"id":10307,"date":"2014-10-25T07:17:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T01:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=10307"},"modified":"2014-10-24T20:50:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T15:20:54","slug":"sunrise-angkor-wat-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/sunrise-angkor-wat-cambodia.html","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise over Angkor Wat, Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunrise over the well-known Angkor Wat temple is a much photographed spectacle. On a morning when the air is still&#8211;it typically is&#8211;the spires of the temple reflect perfectly on a tank\u00a0overlooking the edifice. If the clouds add to the drama, a superb\u00a0show can be expected from the morning sun.<\/p>\n<p>The photographer who first made this image and put an effort to publicize this must be a proud man. Every day, especially in the peak season, a thousand people land up in front of the lake with a hope to see and photograph the sunrise. When I was in Cambodia last week, I dutifully joined the crowds in putting my stamp on this much-photographed, much-visited and much-appreciated image of sunrise over Angkor. Cliched it may be, but can&#8217;t be\u00a0missed or ignored.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/angkor-wat-sunrise-sunset.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10308\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/angkor-wat-sunrise-sunset.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise at Angkor Wat, Cambodia\" width=\"456\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a collage of three images of reflection of Angkor Wat&#8217;s temple spires. First one was made well before sunrise, when a few stars were still flickering in the sky. The second one was just before sunrise, and the third one during sunset hours when you don&#8217;t have to jostle with\u00a0999 more photographers to claim your space.<\/p>\n<p>And here is a photograph that might just discourage you from\u00a0trying this morning adventure! Remember, this photograph only shows people to the right of me. To the left is an equally strong crowd waiting for the sun to show up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sunrise-angkor-wat-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10310\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sunrise-angkor-wat-2.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise at Angkor Wat, Cambodia\" width=\"900\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sunrise-angkor-wat-2.jpg 900w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sunrise-angkor-wat-2-640x362.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sunrise hour is so popular with visitors that a few restaurateurs nearby\u00a0now offer\u00a0chairs to people who arrive early. You can buy a coffee and get the chair complementary, or just pay for the chair! Enterprising!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunrise over the well-known Angkor Wat temple is a much photographed spectacle. On a morning when the air is still&#8211;it typically is&#8211;the spires of the temple reflect perfectly on a tank\u00a0overlooking the edifice. If the clouds add to the drama, a superb\u00a0show can be expected from the morning sun. The photographer who first made this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[450],"tags":[453,557,374],"class_list":["post-10307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambodia","tag-angkor-wat","tag-cambodia","tag-sunrise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-2Gf","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10307"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10314,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307\/revisions\/10314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}