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Date: 22/12/2025
Angkor Wat is in Cambodia, but it doesn’t feel like a destination.
It feels like something people grew around.
These stones don’t ask for admiration.
They stand there, worn, quiet, and unbothered by centuries passing.
Monks walk past without posing.
Children move through the spaces like this has always been normal — because for them, it is.
Angkor Wat is not preserved behind glass.
It breathes with the day.
You don’t leave with excitement.
You leave with a slowed heartbeat and the feeling that time doesn’t need to hurry.
Some places survive not by being protected,
but by being lived with.
Rajat Chandra Sarmah
Guwahati, Assam, India
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