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The big temple.
Date: 04/22/2006
Views: 1159
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The big Jim with the big temple.
Date: 04/22/2006
Views: 912
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Scene from the bas-relief on one of the walls of Angkor Wat.
Date: 04/22/2006
Views: 1023
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A devata or female divinity carved here on the door post of the main temple to act as a guard.
Date: 04/22/2006
Views: 971
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A face from the Bayon temple.
Date: 04/22/2006
Views: 915
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Another face.
Date: 04/22/2006
Views: 934
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Bas-relief from the wall of Bayon temple.
Date: 04/22/2006
Views: 896
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Another bas-relief.
Date: 04/22/2006
Views: 875
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Flinging a spear.
Date: 04/22/2006
Views: 909
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Bas-relief from Bayon.
Date: 04/22/2006
Views: 919
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Bas-relief.
Date: 04/22/2006
Views: 927
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Bas-relief.
Date: 04/22/2006
Views: 861
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Alligator munching on a delicious animal.
Date: 04/22/2006
Views: 946
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Pete climbs a temple at Angkor Thom.
Date: 04/22/2006
Views: 992
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Elephant reliefs from the elephant terrace.
Date: 04/22/2006
Views: 844
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Sunset at Angkor Wat.
Date: 04/22/2006
Views: 872
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Overgrown temple at Ta Prom. All the temples were buried in jungle when they were discovered in the 19th century. Since then they've been cleaned up and lightly renovated in some cases.
Date: 04/22/2006
Views: 900
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A devata (female goddess).
Date: 04/23/2006
Views: 865
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Depiction of "The Great Departure" when Buddha (then called Siddhartha) left his home to practice asceticism. When he had previously left his home for the first time to visit his subjects, the shocking sight of the poor, sick, and old stirred h
Date: 04/23/2006
Views: 900
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Apsara (heavenly nymphs) portrayed here dancing. Most of the temples in the ancient Khmer style include a "hall of dance" to their east.
Date: 04/23/2006
Views: 883
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Another big tree engulfing a ruin.
Date: 04/23/2006
Views: 933
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Statue of a horse, actually an incarnation of a Hindu god as it rescues sailors stranded on the island of a ogre. Located at the temple Neak Pean, which is in the middle of a recreation of a Hindu Lake system.
Date: 04/23/2006
Views: 880
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The head of this figure was stolen by art thieves. The temple complex is difficult to guard, and often even the heads of cement replica statues are stolen after the actual statues have been removed to museums for safe-keeping.
Date: 04/23/2006
Views: 897
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Bas-relief.
Date: 04/23/2006
Views: 925
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The temple Preah Khan.
Date: 04/23/2006
Views: 935
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These damaged bas-reliefs were not stolen, but were vandalized by the ancient Khmer themselves during one of the slides towards Hinduism. The images scratched away were Buddhist.
Date: 04/23/2006
Views: 909
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Mysterious columned building at Preah Kanh.
Date: 04/23/2006
Views: 935
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This hermit is a Hindu image and replaced an image of Buddha which formerly resided here after a slide towards Hinduism by the Ancient Khmer.
Date: 04/23/2006
Views: 992
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Vishnu, one of the primary Hindu gods, reclining.
Date: 04/23/2006
Views: 895
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Sunset and a statue.
Date: 04/23/2006
Views: 990
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Bakhong temple.
Date: 04/23/2006
Views: 953
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Bas-relief.
Date: 04/23/2006
Views: 853
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Bakhong temple.
Date: 04/23/2006
Views: 902
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An inscription on the door jam of Bakhong Temple.
Date: 04/24/2006
Views: 819
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Temple guard.
Date: 04/24/2006
Views: 911
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Another temple guard.
Date: 04/24/2006
Views: 883
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The walkway leading up to Banteay Samrei.
Date: 04/24/2006
Views: 874
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Battle scene from the Ramayana.
Date: 04/24/2006
Views: 886
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Depiction of the Monkey Army from the Ramayana.
Date: 04/24/2006
Views: 915
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Bas-relief.
Date: 04/24/2006
Views: 882
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Bas-relief.
Date: 04/24/2006
Views: 893
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Attacking a cow.
Date: 04/24/2006
Views: 974
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Bas-relief.
Date: 04/24/2006
Views: 899
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Gate to Angkor Thom.
Date: 04/24/2006
Views: 958
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Bas-relief.
Date: 04/24/2006
Views: 893
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Bas-relief.
Date: 04/24/2006
Views: 872
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Bas-relief.
Date: 04/24/2006
Views: 921
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Bas-relief (actually in the light!).
Date: 04/24/2006
Views: 901
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