Story about Angkor temple Banteay Chhmar.

A few years ago I went to Cambodia for two weeks. We saw the majority of the classic Angkor temples around Siem Reap, but did not travel to any of those outside of the general vicinity: namely Preah Vihear, which recently has been in the press for a dispute between Cambodia and Thailand and whose land it belongs to, and Banteay Chhmar.
What the below article describes is the temple of Banteay Chhmar and how it plays a role in the everyday life of the locals: Farmers store hay in the outer rooms and allow their cattle to graze on the grass inside the temple, crops are grown near the moat, etc. At the temples we visited--most of the major ones including Angkor Watt, Ta Prohm, Bayon, etc.--the grounds are kept clean, the walkways are free of weeds and debris...i$n general, they're tourist attractions. The role of Banteay Chhmar seems much more organic; it seems that it's less of a trek for pale-faced visitors, and more of a entity to be used among the people who built it. I enjoyed learning about Banteay Chhmar through this article and wish I had a chance to see it.

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