After coffee Sarun grabbed a couple of umbrellas and took me on a tour of the site.

BBC: Piecing together puzzles in Cambodia

The next morning, over coffee in the GHF courtyard, Sarun told me he had first visited the main Banteay Chhmar ruin in 1997.

BBC: Piecing together puzzles in Cambodia

Happily, Sarun said, two of these were intercepted near the Thai border and are now on display at the National Museum in Phnom Penh.

BBC: Piecing together puzzles in Cambodia

This, it turned out, was Sarun Kousum, the assistant director of the GHF project and the man I was supposed to meet the following day.

BBC: Piecing together puzzles in Cambodia

On the second morning of my stay in Banteay Chhmar, I awoke before dawn to explore the main ruin where Sarun had taken me the day before.

BBC: Piecing together puzzles in Cambodia

It was a bid that looked bold at the time, but by the time Sarun took the reins as chief executive in July 2003, Vodafone was in the midst of a post-acquisition hangover.

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