Dutch woman caught mooning Angkor Wat in Cambodia

By Janene Pieters on May 12, 2015 - 09:31
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Angkor Wat (Picture: Wikimedia Commons/sam garza). Angkor Wat (Picture: Wikimedia Commons/sam garza)

Three tourists, one of them a Dutch woman, were caught taking photos of their bare bottoms in the Angkor temple complex in Cambodia on Sunday. The three of them appeared in a Cambodian court on Monday, newswire AFP reports.

"They were taking photos showing their bottoms", Long Kosal, spokesperson for the Apsara Authority, the agency that manages the Angkor complex, told AFP.  "Their actions affects the value of our temples."

The Angkor Archaeological Park is a world heritage site and Cambodia's most popular tourist destination. It contains the remains of Khmer Empire that date from the 9th to the 15th centuries.

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