i dare you to pick this book up and not immediately start planning your trip to southeast asia. i have been looking forward to seeing ankor wat for sometime now, but this book has created a long stream of drool as i long to get there asap. the pictures are amazing, though some a bit too small, but the text that goes along with them has blown me away.i am so ready to be trekking though the ruins in a little over a week, and will have such better knowledge of what is going on and what i am looking at with use of this fantastic book.seriously. find and read this book then get yourself to cambodia as soon as possible.