Siem Reap (Cambodia), March 22 (IANS) Huge crowds of tourists rallied in front of the famed Angkor Wat temple here in northwest Cambodia early Sunday morning to watch the stunning sunrise during the spring equinox. “A large number of national and international tourists gathered to capture memorable photos of the sunrise aligning with the central tower of Angkor Wat,” Tourism Minister Huot Hak said in a post on social media.”Equinox sunrise is an extraordinary and rare phenomenon that occurs only…
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Phnom Penh, Jan 1 (IANS) Cambodia’s famed Angkor Archaeological Park welcomed a total of 955,131 international visitors in 2025, a year-on-year decrease of 6.7 per cent, the site’s operator said on Thursday. The UNESCO-listed world heritage site earned 44.7 million US dollars in revenue from ticket sales last year, also down 6.5 per cent, said the press release from the state-owned Angkor Enterprise.Main sources of foreign tourists to the park were the United States, Britain, France, China and S…