Comparable in scale to Cambodia's Angkor Wat, currently "you can get huge parts of it all to yourself, " says Lonely Planet's USA editor, Robert Reid.

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Mystics, backpackers, new-age yuppies and thousands of others are expected to show up at Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat complex, which will be enshrouded in darkness for one minute 48 seconds.

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Mr Hun Sen is said to be obsessed with Cambodia's ancient Khmer kingdom, which built the awesome Angkor Wat complex and once ruled much of Indochina.

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The loss of Cambodia's artists spurred efforts to find survivors who could instruct future generations about the country's ancient arts, some of the instruments of which can be seen carved on the temples of Angkor Wat, which are up to 1, 200 years old, in Siem Reap.

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