Bare bodies banned at Angkor Wat
A new code of conduct for tourists visiting the ancient temples of Angkor Wat will be drafted next month, aimed at halting incidents of tourists behaving badly at the world famous UNESCO Heritage site.
A number of incidents have hit the headlines in recent months of foreign tourists stripping off for naked photo shoots in the Angkor Archaelogical Park in Siem Reap.
This year two American sisters and a group of French tourists have separately been deported for exposing too much flesh at the temple complex.
Last year a New Zealand tourist admitted vandalising a 12th century statue after illegally staying overnight in a temple.
The new rules have been two years in the making, the Apsara Authority said and will be distributed in several languages to local tour companies and hotels.
"Revealing clothes such as shorts and skirts above the knees and showing bare shoulders are prohibited in sacred places," the new guidelines say.
Visitors will be banned from touching ancient structures and to also avoid giving money to children begging as it ‘encourages them not to attend school, but to beg’.
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