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Poor countries often take a different approach to making money off their world-famous sites, at least compared to their richer counterparts. In Cambodia, for example, the entrance fee for the Angkor Wat complex goes to a petrol company.
Here on the plain of Bagan, this colossus stands out as an example of mismanaging a tourism resource. It blends into its surroundings like only a massive steel skyscraper can blend into a temple-strewn plain. You can climb the thing for a mere five dollars, but there’s no way we’re going to sponsor this ugliness.
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