Phanom Rung

I had come across this impressive Hindu shrine, built between the 10th and 13th centuries, dedicated to Shiva when I set foot covering in the isolated five rural provinces for a geographic magazine in the early 2000's

Our team was the first international media to disclose these unseen UNESCO treasures to the general public in the world. 

#Nāga ; in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, the Nāga or Nagi (female) are divine, semi-divine deities, or a semi-divine race of half-human half-serpent beings that reside in the netherworld (Patala) and can occasionally take human form. They are common and hold cultural significance in the mythological traditions of many South Asian and Southeast Asian cultures

The steep ridge mountains completely isolate the northeastern region from mainland Thailand. 

For Thais, it is totally like a piece of foreign land, even their own country's media are rarely setting foot in. Not to mention our group flew in by a charter plane to visit as the first international magazine. 

For two weeks, our team has been running back and forth between the five provinces for work. 

As the only foreign geographical magazine of us, everywhere we went was packed with the local people around, every picture I took must to take time to ask onlookers to avoid, even on the difficult-to-climb and arduous mountains shooting would also cause uproars. 

#Nāga ; in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, the Nāga or Nagi (female) are divine, semi-divine deities, or a semi-divine race of half-human half-serpent beings that reside in the netherworld (Patala) and can occasionally take human form. They are common and hold cultural significance in the mythological traditions of many South Asian and Southeast Asian cultures

由於險峻峭嶺山型把東北地區與泰國本土完全隔絕的緣故，對於泰國人來說，這裡根本就像似境外之地，就連該國的媒體也鮮少報導。

更何況當年我們這組搭乘專機前往，破天荒首度採訪的外國人。兩週來，我們的團隊在此遺世獨立的五個省份間來回奔波着。

身為唯一的國外地理雜誌的我們，所到之處皆為水洩不通的當地民眾所圍繞，每拍一個畫面都得費時請圍觀者迴避，就連難以攀爬的山巔和危巖的拍攝也會引起騷動。

This Khmer temple — built of sandstone and laterite, called Prasat Hin Phanom Rung — is a Hindu Khmer Empire temple complex set on the rim of an extinct volcano at 402 meters (1,319 ft) elevation. It is located in Buriram (literally meaning "happiness") Province in the Isan region, set in Northeastern Thailand, and was built at a time when Khmer social-political influences were significant in (neighboring provence) Sisaket (now spelled Srisaket). 

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