Friday, February 21, 2020

Another Flashback Post - February, 2013 Angkor Wat, Cambodia

This flashback posting shows images and impressions from my first trip to Angkor Wot ruins.

After leaving Angkor Wat, my guide and I headed north to another temple complex, this one even larger. Called Angkor Thom it contains the ruin of Bayon


Like Angkor Wat this complex is surrounded by a huge rectangular moat measuring eight miles in circumference. As we approached the gate, I had the driver stop and let me take a photo.



The bridge over the moat contains 54 statues with the ones on the right representing good and those on the left evil


Detail of some of these statues


The moat towards the setting sun


And looking to the east


Close-up of the entrance gate


The central complex is not as restored as Angkor Wat and in many ways makes it more interesting


The approach


More fantastic sandstone carvings


Detail of an elephant carving


The wheel was known to these people


Can you see the buddha faces carved in the temple heights?





Perhaps you can now


Close-up


I wish there was time to write more about this great place but you'll have to read it here


Profile of one of the numerous Buddha faces that appear on each of the great towers


Close-up of a Buddha face


Stone faces and jungle


Smiling face captured in stone


It was very hot and humid. My shirt was drenched in sweat.


The road back to Siem Reap town

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