March 12: Siem Reap, Cambodia Photos Day 1 Temple Ta Prohm

I'll post a few photos from the 3 days we visited Siem Reap, Cambodia and some of the major temples in that area, including Angkor Wat, the most famous of them. However, we felt some of the others were also extremely interesting. All of them are about 1000 years old and still show amazing detail in the intricate carvings, not to mention the buildings themselves. Below are photos from our first day's visit to Ta Prohm Temple, the one that most people recognize from the movies. The jungle continues to take over the buildings, but they've found that if they kill the trees/roots, the buildings will collapse and if they leave the trees/roots they will collapse…so it's left as is…for how long, nobody knows. Note the vaulted ceilings they built…that still remain in many cases. Also note the intricate carvings everywhere.

 

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