SIEM REAP: Cambodia is set to break the record for most origami hearts in the world at Angkor Wat at 4pm tomorrow, 11 April 2023.

Cambodians are folding 1 million colorful origami hearts and creating a “garden of hearts” on display at the beautiful Angkor Wat temple during the Angkor Sankranta festivities. The hearts are not only meant to break the world record, but to symbolize the love of the people for the disabled players who train hard to represent the motherland. They are also meant to commemorate Cambodia hosting the SEA Games and ASEAN Para Games, which start on 5 May.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Angkor Sankranta festivities and the paper hearts are the third Guiness World Record set to be broken there. In 2015, Angkor Sankranta attendees broke the Guinness World Record for Largest Madison Dance, with a total of more than 2,015 dancers. They also won the record for largest sticky rice cake that year, with a traditional Cambodian Nom Ansorm weighing 4 tons.

Cambodia has a penchant for breaking world records-it’s most recent being “longest circus show,” awarding the more than 24-hour online performance put on by Battambang’s Phare Circus last March. In 2017, the country produced the longest Chapei Dang Veng (Cambodian two-stringed guitar) at 7.7 meters. In 2018, Cambodia broke two world records: longest dragon boat at 87.3 meters and the longest hand-woven scarf: a krama measuring 1,449 meters long.