Showing posts with label Angkor Wat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Angkor Wat. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

1000 year-old swimming pool: Welcome to Angkor Wat!

I have been fascinated with this place ever since I was a kid. I saw it for the first time in a old Sinbad movie on TV and I was blown away. This ancient city was once overtaken by jungle, completely shrouded and hidden, what little left that was exposed to the world was summarily looted by western tomb raiders. That all changed when Cambodia took control of it as a national asset and restored it. Some of the artwork looted has been returned.

More evidence that swimming is not just an art or science but rather a lifestyle and has been for the past 1000 years.

A site called OOBject.com did all the due diligence in finding his sublime work of engineering. [Link]