Angkor Temples – Day 5
Bayon. The Lonely Planet was right in saying it looked like a pile of rubble until you get close to it and saw the magnificence of it. We rode up to it thinking we were going to start with the farther out temples but decided to go in since there weren’t many people crawling around on it yet. It was almost spiritual. And for 2 people that aren’t particularly religious it was an awe-striking experience.
This temple was full of these huge faces. 216 of them to be exact. All over the place. You just wander around and see face after face. It was so cool. We could have sat there all day. But we figured we could come back since we still had a couple of more days.
We went to a bunch of other ones Preah Khan, Neak Pean (one-time surrounded by water), Krol Ko, Ta Som (had this gigantic tree engulfed in it) and then we worked our way back to Angkor Thom to see the Terrace of the Elephants (which, amazingly enough had a bunch of elephants)…
By this point we’re like – we’re hot, tired and pretty much, in the words of our friend Ro, Templed out. So we decided to call it a day and take the next day off so and go see some more ruins on the last day of our pass.
Tags: angkor, Cambodia, RTW Trip
JohnCin
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