Everyone is a tourist
Exploring the world around us truly is a global urge. What we chose to see and experience vary depending to what people are interested in, how much time and money they have and so on but the basic desire seems to be shared by everyone. Most often you start out by going to places near by which means something.
This can be the same places that other travel vast distances and dream about for ages. Visiting sites that attract local and global visitors usually creates an interesting mix.
Like these Buddhist monks that are visiting the main temple in Angkor Wat, Cambodia. The really look like they belong at the site but nevertheless they are also tourists visiting, experiencing and learning more about their own heritage.
During my visit I had many fun moments when friendly monks came up to me and asked if I could take photos of them with their cameras so they could remember their visit at Angkor. As a somewhat more strange and more sad sideeffect of them being there was that more fanatic fellow photographers could literally chase monks to get the "perfect" Angkor-shot.
You should watch this Large On Black since that brings out a lot more details. My pictures aren't balanced for a white background and a lot of the finer details are lost in this small format.
Everyone is a tourist
Exploring the world around us truly is a global urge. What we chose to see and experience vary depending to what people are interested in, how much time and money they have and so on but the basic desire seems to be shared by everyone. Most often you start out by going to places near by which means something.
This can be the same places that other travel vast distances and dream about for ages. Visiting sites that attract local and global visitors usually creates an interesting mix.
Like these Buddhist monks that are visiting the main temple in Angkor Wat, Cambodia. The really look like they belong at the site but nevertheless they are also tourists visiting, experiencing and learning more about their own heritage.
During my visit I had many fun moments when friendly monks came up to me and asked if I could take photos of them with their cameras so they could remember their visit at Angkor. As a somewhat more strange and more sad sideeffect of them being there was that more fanatic fellow photographers could literally chase monks to get the "perfect" Angkor-shot.
You should watch this Large On Black since that brings out a lot more details. My pictures aren't balanced for a white background and a lot of the finer details are lost in this small format.