Cambodian Cultural Village ( km, ភូមិវប្បធម៌កម្ពុជា; CCV) was a

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and cultural museum in

Siem Reap Siem Reap ( km, សៀមរាប, ) is the second-largest city of Cambodia, as well as the capital and largest city of Siem Reap Province in northwestern Cambodia. Siem Reap has French colonial and Chinese-style architecture in the Old ...

, Cambodia. It was located on road no. 6, from the

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, from the town and from the famous

Angkor Wat Angkor Wat (; km, អង្គរវត្ត, "City/Capital of Temples") is a temple complex in Cambodia and is the largest religious monument in the world, on a site measuring . Originally constructed as a Hindu temple dedicated to the g ...

temple complex. The theme park was constructed in 2001 and opened to the public on 24 September 2003. It covers a total area of 210,000 square meters. The CCV presents miniature versions of important historical buildings and structures, together with local customs. There are eleven unique villages, representing the varied culture heritage of nineteen ethnic groups. At each village are wood houses, carvings in stone, traditional performances in different styles such as Apsara dancing, performances of ethnic minorities from the northeastern part of Cambodia, traditional wedding ceremony rites, circuses, folk games, peacock dancing, acrobatics, elephant shows, boxing, caves of hell and more. Cambodian Cultural Village was considered by some as "

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", but was popular with Cambodians and other Asian visitors. It includes a

wax museum A wax museum or waxworks usually consists of a collection of wax sculptures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited in lifelike poses, wearing real clothes. Some wax museums have a special section dubb ...

displaying scenes from the culture and history of Cambodia. Cambodian Cultural Village permanently closed in November 2020 following the collapse in the tourism industry caused by the

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. On June 18, 2022, the park was reopened under the name of “ Angkor Green Park” and operated by Dara Group Company.

References

External links

Cambodian Cultural Village website
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