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• April 20, 2010 travilana has been to Dinosaur of Ta Prohm
  

  Siemreab, Cambodia

  Dinosaur of Ta Prohm

  Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?

  Hordes of tourists descend on Cambodia every year for the sole purpose of visiting the temples at Angkor. This magnificent series of temples, carved out of the jungle in the 12th and 13th... »

  Incredible Ruins | Edited by ilbonito, mrobscurity and 2 others

• April 20, 2010 travilana has been to Ta Prohm
  

  Siemreab, Cambodia

  Ta Prohm

  A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle

  Had Ta Prohm been diligently maintained from its construction in 1186 to the present day, it would be just a footnote to the larger Angkor Wat temple. But while Ta Prohm lay forgotten and... »

  Long Now Locations, Incredible Ruins | Edited by elsie4LC, Henry and others

• April 20, 2010 travilana has been to Batu Caves
  

  Batu Caves, Malaysia

  Batu Caves

  Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern

  During Thaipusam, an annual celebration of the triumph of good over evil, hundreds of thousands of spiritual pilgrims climb the 272 stairs into the Batu Caves carrying kavadis, symbolic burdens... »

  Curious Caves, Strange Statues, Rites and Rituals, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by Annetta, dcyc82 and 3 others

• April 20, 2010 travilana has been to Plaster Citizens of Pompeii
  

  Plaster Citizens of Pompeii

  Their last minutes captured in plaster

  Those that did not flee the city of Pompeii in August of 79 AD were doomed. Buried for 1700 years under 30 feet of mud and ash and reduced by the centuries to skeletons, they remained entombed... »

  Memento Mori, Disaster Areas, Long Now Locations, Incredible Ruins | Edited by Annetta, Dylan and others