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SIEM REAP (AFP): As dawn breaks, foreign tourists gather by the ancient towers of Cambodia's Angkor Wat, some of the lucky few to see the World Heritage Site with the crowds thin as the country recovers from the coronavirus.
With mass tourism kept at bay by the COVID-19 pandemic, now is the best time to be in the Cambodian city and gateway to Angkor ruins.
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Share Sacred Dancers of Angkor have now danced at and reconsecrated 42 temples across Cambodia and Laos. SUPPLIED Sacred traditions at risk amid Covid Mon, 19 July 2021 As one of the first spiritual dance troupes in the world – created in 2007 by Ravynn Karet-Coxen, a Cambodian refugee based in London – Sacred Dancers of Angkor is more than just traditional performance art. The dancers in the troupe are among the many whose livelihoods depend on a vibrant tourism industry and they have been deeply affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. With no tourists, they have very little opportunity to g...
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA -- Cambodia is shutting its most popular tourist destination, the centuries-old Angkor temple complex, to visitors for two weeks to help curb the country's coronavirus outbreak. The closing of the world-famous site is the latest in a slew of measures the country is taking after the number of coronavirus cases surged in February. The Apsara Authority, the government agency that oversees the archaeological site, said that temporarily stopping local and foreign tourists from visiting the temples is important to help combat the virus. It said in a statement dated Wedne...