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Details:  During the Christmas holidays of 2005-2006, I traveled to Hanoi and then to Cambodia. Angkor Wat is one of the most awe inspiring places in the world.
Tags:  Angkor Thom, Angkor Wat, Banteay Samre, Banteay Srei & Samre, East Mebon, Phnom Penh, Preah Khan, Preah Rup, Siem Reap, Ta Keo, Ta Prohm, Tonle Sap, West Mebon

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  • Title: Cambodia / Angkor Wat 2006
  • Description: During the Christmas holidays of 2005-2006, I traveled to Hanoi and then to Cambodia. Angkor Wat is one of the most awe inspiring places in the world.
  • Owner: Gallery Administrator
  • Tags: Cambodia

Cambodia / Angkor Wat 2006

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During the Christmas holidays of 2005-2006, I traveled to Hanoi and then to Cambodia. Angkor Wat is one of the most awe inspiring places in the world.

  • Phnom Penh National Museum

  • Naga

  • Phnom Penh National Museum

  • National Museum Courtyard

  • Phnom Penh

  • Wat Phnom

  • Dog

  • Kitties

  • Monkey!!

  • Wat Phnom

  • Carriage

  • Royal Palace & Silver Pagoda entrance

  • Royal Palace & Silver Pagoda

  • Royal Palace & Silver Pagoda

  • Royal Palace & Silver Pagoda

  • Elephant!

  • DO NOT DO

  • Angkor - ‘If our people can build Angkor, they can do anything’. -- Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge

  • Columns

  • Asparas, celestial dancers

  • Aspara

  • Asparas

  • More asparas

  • Asparas headpiece

  • Bas-relief

  • Battle of Kurukshetra

  • Churning of the Ocean of Milk

  • Heaven and Hell

  • Stairs to Angkor Wat

  • Pat in Angkor Wat inner courtward

  • View of Angkor Wat with hot air balloon

  • View of Angkor from tower

  • Lotus pool

  • Enclosed courtyard

  • Preah Khan

  • Jungle takes over Preah Khan

  • Doorway

  • Crushing weight

  • Preah Khan

  • Asparas, celestial dancers bas-relief

  • Stupa with direct sunlight

  • Defaced statues

  • Temples are aligned to magnetic North

  • Fire ant hill - STAY AWAY

  • Prasat Banteay Srei - The Citadel of the women

  • Spectacular Banteay Srei & Samre

  • Banteay Srei & Samre

  • Naga sculpted into the murals

  • MP in front of Banteay Samre - The citadel of the Samre

  • MP and Banteay Samre

  • Break from temples and visit of Tonle Sap floating villages

  • Floating village elementary school

  • Crocodile farm

  • Tonle Sap crocodile farm

  • Drying shrimp

  • Tonle Sap

  • View of floating village

  • Sign near temple

  • You go there and you will die

  • Biking to Angkor Thom

  • Angkor Thom archway

  • Colossal Angkor Thom - "Great City"

  • Angkor Thom - Bayon

  • Faces of Avalokiteshvara at Bayon temple

  • Bayon

  • Stone faces of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

  • Close-up

  • More Bayon

  • Famous 'Angkor smile'

  • Buddha

  • Bas-relief of South Gallery of the Bayon

  • Asparas

  • Bas-relief

  • Fish eating cow

  • War between the Khmers and the Chams

  • Angkor Thom

  • Old monkey

  • Old monkey being a star

  • Old man monkey

  • Old nun

  • Terrace of the Elephants

  • Monks at probably East Mebon temple

  • Cow incident

  • Cow shoos MP in cow incident

  • Red ants. AVOID.

  • Preah Rup

  • Child selling bracelets

  • Sunrise on Angkor Wat

  • Bayon temple of Angkor Thom at sunrise

  • Bayon temple of Angkor Thom at sunrise

  • Transportation

  • Ta Prohm

  • Ta Prohm

  • This is better than Tomb Raider, guys.

  • And now for our cardio break

  • Ta Keo

  • Ta Keo

  • The Two Towers

  • Tourists watch the sunset

  • Flower at West Mebon

  • West Mebon

  • Lizard in tree in West Mebon

  • Our guide and Tuk-Tuk driver

  • Silkworms

  • Loom

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