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Epic Sunrise over Angkor Wat

Best sunrise I've ever seen in my life. I had to go at 4AM and there were mosquitoes and tourists everywhere. The sky started off as a deep blue; when the sun started rising, it turned from a light pink to a deep blood red and stayed that way long enough for me to get 600+ shots off - it was that epic. I rhetorically couldn't believe how deep the red was.

 

A lot of people generally concentrate on getting the Angkor Wat temple with its reflection in the pond (you've probably seen that one everywhere), but this one made sense to me - it's the sunrise that's famous, and it's the sunrise that makes the temple iconic, not the temple itself. There are far better temples in the Angkor complex to visit. Hence, I present to you the fiery sky of the Epic Sunrise over Angkor Wat.

 

Equally epic on black.

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Uploaded on July 7, 2009
Taken on May 16, 2009