The texts themselves are a mixture of science fiction, prose, and rather technical instructions of a mysterious computer program to the not always heroic hero, J.D.Flora, whose insights and outsights are being revealed in the process.
The individual episodes are short stories, conclusive in itself, and therefore perfectly suited as an e-mail sequel.
And here they are!
Every evening the waterbuffalos are coming back from the rice fields.
The recent history left the country in poverty and distress from which it is recovering very slowly. Here is a pig (still alive) on the back of a moped.. conditions are getting better.
Angkor Wat was rediscovered at the end of the last century and attracts many tourists every year. Angkor covers an area of 120 square miles and has over 1,000 temples. Only 39 sites are accessible today.
It took me 3 exhausting days to visit just 10 of them, mainly those which happened to be mentioned in the 'Logs of JD Flora'. A map illustrates the locations of those sites.
The Main building is called Angkor Wat, but the entire area is named that way as well. Here you see a sphinxy (?!) lion in front of the Angkor Wat main complex
JD Flora had his own peculiar opinion about Apsaras and ring columns.
I had a lot of help from Khmer people (including the military) and I have to say that they are some of the nicest people I ever met.
Touring Angkor is exhausting and a break is needed every once a while. Here is picture of me together with with an Cambodian soldier who helped me getting around without stepping on a mine.
The small ramp of the building which is called the 'Landing Place', or Phimeanakas, was the place JD Flora was brought and then... oops, I nearly spilled out a part of the 'Logs', hmm.
The big ramp of the Landing Place is even more impressive, of course. Even though it is difficult to climb up the incredibly steep stairs up the big ramp of the Landing Place.
