Over 80,000 tourists attend Equinox event at Angkor Wat

[CharlieH]

 

 

The Equinox event at Angkor Wat, from Friday to Sunday, attracted an impressive 85,453 visitors, highlighting the site’s continued popularity as a cultural and historical landmark.

 

According to the Apsara National Authority (ANA), among the attendees were 14,233 foreign tourists who travelled from around the world to witness the stunning sunrise over the central peak of the iconic Angkor Wat complex.

The Equinox Angkor is one of the most spectacular events attracting both international tourists and local Cambodians, took place from Friday to Sunday, between 5am and 6:30am.

 

The Equinox Angkor event demonstrates the unique characteristics of the Khmer ancestors, deliberating design of Khmer architecture; the layout for constructing the temple; land arrangement; calculations based on astronomy and consideration of the celestial course along with beliefs and natural phenomena requirements, which creates a phenomenon that shines at the centre of the Angkor Wat temple.

The equinox is the time when day and night are approximately equal in length, unlike some normal months, the night is longer than the day or the day is longer than the night that always happens in the world.

This special sunrise event occurs twice a year, in March the spring or Vernal Equinox and in September the Autumnal Equinox.

 

Courtesy of Khmer Times