Then he took the two horses, and led them into the stables; reappearing for the purpose of locking the outer gate, as if we lived in an ancient castle.

随后他牵着两匹马，把它们带到马厩里去，又重新出现，目的是锁外面大门，仿佛我们住在一座古代堡垒里一样。

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You just don't know, in ancient times, only those in high positions or with meritorious achievements were allowed to get in through the gate.

你是有所不知啊，古时候只有那些地位显赫功勋卓著的人来，才会开大门让他们走。

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Indeed, the name of the village was written in eye-catching big characters on the village gate built of big chunks of granite. Above the characters were two impressive rows of ancient loopholes.

果然，大块青石砌成的寨门上，“鱼木寨”三个大字十分显眼，再往上赫然是两排古代的枪眼。

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Sadly, it was a feeling similar to poking your head through the sun gate at Machu Picchu and seeing the ancient ruins for the first time after four days of hiking the Inca Trail.

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After meeting up with the archeologist guide, visitors take a cycling tour (bikes are provided) through the temple complex and north toward the south gate of Angkor Thom, to check out the centerpiece of this ancient city, the Bayon temple.

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You turned off a quiet narrow lane onto an indistinct track that crossed a field, and stopped at the edge of an ancient pollarded wood, and there, half hidden by a tangle of hawthorn bushes, was a small white picket gate.

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