This piece of news has been all over the headlines these past few days. A trio of French tourists were caught at Banteay Kdei taking nude photos. This news comes after the recent outrage over another nude photo shoot at the same temple – perhaps it really needs to be said: these temples are as the name implies, religious places. You wouldn’t go to a church or a mosque and take nude photos, and the same applies here!
The trio have since been fined and deported.
Tourists Caught Taking Nude Photos at Angkorian Site
Cambodia Daily, 30 January 2015
Cambodia detains 3 foreign tourists for taking porn photos at heritage site
Xinhua, via Global Post, 30 January 2015
French tourists arrested for nude photos at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat
AFP, via The Straits Times, 30 January 2015
Three arrested in latest row over nude snaps at Angkor park
Phnom Penh Post, 31 January 2015
Angkor temple naked photo session leads to tourists’ arrest
Global Travel Industry News, 31 January 2015
Tourists in Nude Photo Shoot to Face the Law
Cambodia Daily, 31 January 2015
French tourists in nude Cambodia photo scandal to be deported
AFP, via the Straits Times, 31 January 2015
French tourists in nude Cambodia photo scandal to be deported
AFP, via GMA Network, 01 February 2015
Cambodia deports French nude pics tourists
AAP, via SBS, 01 February 2015
Cambodia deports 3 Frenchmen for nude Angkor Wat photo shoot
Asian Correspondent, 02 February 2015
What cheek! French tourists deported and banned from re-entering Cambodia for four years after posing nude at Angkor temple
Daily Mail, 02 February 2015
Three Frenchmen Caught Naked at Temple Sentenced, Deported
Cambodia Daily, 02 February 2015
Just days after the authority that operates the Angkor Archaeological Park expressed outrage at photographs circulating online of nude women posing at the park’s iconic monuments, three tourists were caught taking nude photos at the Banteay Kdei temple Thursday.
According to the Apsara Authority, which manages the temple complex in Siem Reap province, local authorities caught the nude tourists shortly after 11 a.m.
“Apsara Authority in cooperation with Siem Reap provincial tourism police and Siem Reap provincial heritage police prevented the activities of taking naked pictures by three foreign tourists at 11:10 a.m. on January 29 in the compound of the Banteay Kdei monument,” says a statement released by the authority last night.
Full story here.
Wayne Johnson
stupid people… chance they not finish in jail
Thank you Cambodia for punishing idiocy! This is a living religious site – you wouldn’t do anything this disrespectful in a church, mosque, or Hindu temple!
Like a priest having sex with a boy in a church… It’s just not on right?
How dare!