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RE: Our trip to thousand-year-old ruins of Angkor
Wonderful photos and stories of your time there. I am in Thailand now and may go for one of my Visa trips. I'm not in the best of health and it looks very exhausting to me. But you definitely have the best post of the many I have looked at.
My question is where all the slaves and stone carvers came from and where they went afterwards. I can't imagine your average slave to have this type of talent. Do they say anything about this in what you studied?
Thank you so much, @fitinfun! :)
That's a very interesting question! Here's what I found about it:
The building of Angkor Wat is likely to have necessitated some 300,000 workers, which included architects, construction workers, masons, sculptors and the servants to feed these workers.
The Khmer rulers made use of a vast force of slave labour, there were probably thousands of slaves. Each new temple was made possible by the 750,000 people estimated to have lived at Angkor during the 12th and 13th centuries. Angkor Wat took approximately 34 years to build, resulting in many slaves dying in the process from being overworked.
Slaves were either captured during war, or were indigenous Mon-Khmer Tribespeople, who had been taken from the eastern highlands of the Khmer Empire. And there were also debt slaves, whom were people enslaved until they could pay off their dept.
Most families had 100 or more of them [slaves], a few had 10 or 20; and only the poorest peasants didn't own at least a single slave.
I suppose that slaves were used for tasks that didn't require skill, like hauling the stone blocks and feeding those skilled workers... what do you think?
I don't know - I have similar questions about other ancient sites too. How many slaves does it take to carve a masterpiece? If it wasn't the slaves - who were the master carvers and what happened to them after? Where did they live? How were they housed and fed?
If I do go there, I will be looking for any sign of carving skill in the current day - the descendants of the master builders who did this. I'm not sure if this one has a lot of small bricks or a lot of huge megaliths. I was up in Udon Thani and saw bricks being made currently. No unskilled person could do it in my opinion.
To me - this whole topic is a mystery!
Please let me know if you find out more about it! 😊
lol - I 'm asking people who go to these sites like you, but so far no answers from anyone - I will keep asking for sure. I looked back on this and you guys have really great photos and text. I think you could get sponsorships for sure with your interesting lives and travels.
thank you so much! Any ideas about how we can get sponsorships? :D
Well - here are some
You can get a free "travel pitch kit" here:
http://www.cision.com/us/resources/white-papers/2017-travel-pk/
And this girl does it
http://ginabearsblog.com/2017/04/travel-blog-media-kit-sponsor-pitching/
So you make a pdf with you and your guy and show some great photos and describe what you can pitch - hotel, clothes, travel accessories etc.
Then you send that out to brands who might want to:
I have thought about it for all my visa trips, but it's really not for me - you two look like the type and I mean that in a good way. I'm like the dirty exhausted hippie and you guys are like the breezy fashion plates. The photos you are getting on a tripod (?) are superior. I'm talking about the shots from a bit far off with the two of you in them.
It's just a matter of going through the steps, sending out pitches and being professional and flexible. I think you have it all :)
Def try to connect with others who do it already or at least review blogs and posts to see how other people are succeeding.
Wow, thank you so much! :D That's awesome advice! Somehow I never heard about how exactly people find sponsorships and these tips are so very useful! :D
I'm so glad to tell you of it then. You can do it for sure.
Post about your progress here and you have it made - others will be very interested in the steps you take. Be sure to keep up with the awesome pics on each post :)