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timate bad acid trip, but they are now being restored by the teams with the
German Apsara
Conservation Project
(GACP;
www.gacp-angkor.de
)
. The organisation operates a small informa-
tion booth in the northwest corner of Angkor Wat, near the modern wat, where beautiful
black-and-white postcards and images of Angkor are available for sale.
Allow at least two hours for a visit to Angkor Wat and plan a half day if you want to de-
cipher the bas-reliefs with a tour guide and ascend to Bakan, the upper level.
Symbolism
Visitors to Angkor Wat are struck by its imposing grandeur and, at close quarters, its fas-
cinating decorative flourishes and extensive bas-reliefs. Holy men at the time of Angkor
must have revelled in its multilayered levels of meaning in much the same way a contem-
porary literary scholar might delight in James Joyce's
Ulysses
.
