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In a delightful walled garden within the Royal Palace compound, this pagoda (Wat Preah Keo) is named after the silver tiles covering the floor - 5281 of them, weighing 1kg each (some of them looking as if they're held in place with sellotape). The tiles date from Cambodia's change to paper-only currency, when all the country's silver coins were melted down to make the tiles. No photography inside, unfortunately.
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