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Cambodia: No bare skin in the temple

After several Nude photo scandals, tourist in Cambodia, should not dressed in may for a longer walk just through the famous Angkor Wat temple complex. It is from 4. August dismissed.

As for Angkor Wat, the competent authority announced, will in future no longer allow visitors to enter with a “too revealing” clothing to the temple complex. As too permissive, according to a spokesman, very short pants and skirts, or the back will be scored free T-Shirts. Visitors have to wear a bra.

Angkor is a sacred place of national and cultural soul-is-Wat”,” the arrangement, which is illustrated with photos of barely clad Western tourists – including a woman who only runs in a T-Shirt and underwear through the temple complex.

With the new dress code will require tourists to respect “our beautiful culture and Tradition,” said authorities spokesman Long Kosal. In the past year were in Angkor, a number of foreign tourists to Wat has been arrested in the temple complex in the Nude photos had made of himself. They were sentenced to probation and had to leave the country.

In Angkor Wat, the Remains can be admired from the different capitals of the Khmer Empire, from the ninth to the 15. Century stock. With more than two million visitors last year alone, the plant, which is listed on the world heritage list of Unesco is the most important tourist attraction in the country.

is/at (AFP)