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  • Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

    The LOST city

    Mar 25, 2020 4 minutes

    Angelina Jolie has a lot to answer for. As the unofficial patron saint of Cambodia, she is entirely responsible for the crush of sightseers queuing in front of me to have their photos taken with the Tomb Raider tree at Ta Prohm temple. A combination of competing selfie sticks and the crowd’s palpable enthusiasm for both the Hollywood movie star and the vine-covered ruins she made famous, sees me lodged (literally) between a rock and a hard place on my first day visiting Angkor, the Khmer empire’s ancient capital – and its walled city, Angkor Thom.

    I’ve only just disembarked from an Avalon Waterways river cruise along the backwaters of the producers chose these once-lost jungle ruins as the location for their movie trilogy.

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