KHMER TIMES March 21, 202

ANGKOR WAT TEMPLE – More than 10,000 national and international tourists
woke up at 5 am to watch the sunrise of the Angkor Equinox at Angkor Wat Temple
on the morning of 21 March 2024.

Due to the favourable weather this morning, tourists could visit and capture
the beautiful sunrise.

The equinox is the time when day and night are approximately equal in
length, unlike some normal months when the night is longer than the day or the
day is longer than the night.

The equinox at Angkor Wat is not a coincidence, it is a feature of the Khmer
ancestors who prepared the architecture of the temple in advance, with the
intention of adjusting the natural phenomena for Angkor Wat to create an event
of the sunrise at the top of temple.

Every year, the Equinox occurs twice, the dry season (Vernal Equinox) occurs
in March and the rainy season (Autumnal Equinox) occurs in September.

SOURCE: KHMER TIMES March 21, 2024

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