Welcome to Angkor Planet, the Angkorian Civilization Portal!

In our times, Angkor is known as the name of an archaeological park, the largest in the world, located in the Kingdom of Cambodia, only a few kilometers north of the town Siem Reap.
The main attraction of Angkor consists of the remains of gorgeous medieval religious monuments, including the most famous one, which is known as the name of "Angkor Wat".
But Angkor Wat and the great temples of the archaeological park are only the upper part of a gigantic iceberg which is comprised primarily of a first level around Angkor, the ancient Mohanokor, an urban system extending at least 200 square kilometers and comprising of more than 1,000 vestiges of monuments. Mohanokor, the "Rice field-City ',' Hydraulic Urban System ',' Residence of the Gods" was, for six centuries - from 9th to 14th inclusive, a period more or less contemporary with the Western medieval/ middle age - the amazing capital of the Khmer Empire, known in India as Souvanaphoum, which means El dorado.

This empire, the second level of our iceberg, has become a national and spectral idea, still alive in the hearts of today’s Angkorian people, but unfortunately anesthetized, injured, diminished by the deadly effects of nationalisms, generated by the current and very artificial political boundaries. ..
However, Angkor, only a relatively short time ago - five centuries - extended its power to all territories of the Indochinese peninsula ... A power at least equivalent in terms of "civilizing force" to that exercised by the Roman Empire in European peninsula fifteen centuries ago.

The third level of our iceberg is the biggest, most pervasive, most complex and therefore the least easily defined... However, all travelers - not just visitors to Cambodia, but also those of the other Indochinese countries and even Indonesia - know what it is made by ...
It would be a Spirit, a kind of infinity and nothingness, which strongly unifies the peoples of Southeast Asia, in their apparent bushy diversity, which is the result of strong and deep ethnic and linguistic shocks, which has generated chaos, but also highly valued interbreeding. Finally the Peninsula traveler can see a super nation inhabited admirable or pitiable humanity. ... This Angkor spirit is not from another century, or in ruins ...
It is still alive and could usefully contribute to an urgent and necessary new vision / reflection concerning the evolution of the societal models of production / consumption, which has prevailed globally in recent years, which leads to excessive speed in a inevitable deadlock and constitutes a real horror in terms of civilization and Spirit.