Apr 212013
Having finally wrapped up all the major Angorian sights I’d planned to see, I ran down the last few hours with my driver by hitting every temple I could along the drive home from Kbal Spean…
- I’ve been mentioning quite a few ruins in the recent po...
- With a few hours of sunlight left in the day, I asked m...
- The advantage of these smaller temples is that they’re ...
- Our first stop was at Banteay Samre. It had its own in...
- …A beautiful little “courtyard”…
- …Some super well-preserved Naga statues…
- …And plenty of space for timer photography :)
- With my driver napping on his bike, I decided to slip o...
- …Which I’m pretty sure used to be the front. Here the ...
- Our next stop was East Mebon, a temple which the guideb...
- I disagree.
- But the day was wearing on so I did have to move quickl...
- Next up: Pre Rup.
- With its tall central platform, this is known as a grea...
- Still, rather than just wait around I decided to keep m...
- So after a quick scramble to the peak and a few more sn...
- Even closer to home was Srah Srang – an enormous reserv...
- Of course, no body of water would be complete without a...
- Last but not least was Bantea Kdei, just across the str...
- It had everything one might expect from an Angkorian ru...
- …Including two angry birds…
- Plus a third.
- All in all another excellent day – and still one more t...
Note: These posts are behind realtime; the above took place in March, 2012.
Wow! Thanks for the map, that really helps to understand the region. So much ruins! It is just a reminder how astonishing it is that ancient civilizations were that prolific!
Angry birds balloon in Cambodia?! I wonder if it was brought there by the winds?
Haha, well it’s not like they’re *still* totally cut off from the rest of the world 😉
All built in the same time frame?
Well, during the same broad timeframe, yeah. Angkor was like 9th-15th century.
looks like fun
Cool 😀