Sunday, January 30, 2011

Temples of Angkor - Eastern Mebon: the whole temple was covered in these little holes that held the plaster at some point that covered the temple

Temples of Angkor - Eastern Mebon: not as nice as the other temples I'd been to that day

Temples of Angkor - Eastern Mebon: all the temples have different levels or sections that back in the day only certain people could go into the innermost sections

Temples of Angkor - Eastern Mebon: another

Temples of Angkor - Eastern Mebon: it had really nice elephant statues at every corner on two levels

Temples of Angkor - Eastern Mebon: the main entrance

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Samre: how you would have came to the temple in it's time

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Samre: another entrance gate

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Samre: another

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Samre: again the bottom part would have been filled with water which would have been coo to see

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Samre: I was here too

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Samre: the walls of the inside temple

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Samre: entrance to where the Buddha statue was

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Samre: inside the temple and the bottom part used to filled with water and were pools for purification

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Samre: more supports

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Samre: entrance to the main temple

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Samre: wooden supports to keep the walls from falling down

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Samre: the carvings at the entrance

Temples of Angkor: sugar candy I bought thinking it was sticky rice

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Srei: I actually was there

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Srei: trying to get a picture of the whole temple

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Srei: the details in the carving are truly amassing

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Srei: another

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Srei: actually a very small temple as it wasn't built by a king

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Srei: replicas of the originals that were stolen by the French

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Srei: inside the temples innermost wall

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Srei: entrance to the main temple in the innermost area

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Srei: more carvings

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Srei: script on the inside of this doorway as with many others

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Srei: script carved on e inside of a doorway

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Srei: this temple is supposed to have some of the best carvings of all the temples in the area

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Srei: main gate

Temples of Angkor - Banteay Srei: they had some good information at the entrance to this temple

Temples of Angkor: my first temple

Siem Reap: crazy Australians playing cricket in the street as a match is going on over the radio

Siem Reap: much better Amok but did it have to come in a coconut

Siem Reap: first attempt at Amok fish not the best but if it were spicer it would have been great

Phnom Penh: not sure what kind of animal they are roasting there

Phnom Penh: I'm not sure why so many sculls were on display. There were two other walls just like this

Phnom Penh: a famous artist rendition of the mug shots of the prisoners

Phnom Penh: trying to give perspective to how small the cells were in building B

Phnom Penh: the barbed wire mesh kept the prisoners from jumping off and committing suicide

Phnom Penh: in building B they had many rooms with pictures of the prisoners and victims of S-21

Phnom Penh: each room in building A had a picture like this inside

Phnom Penh: interrogation room in building A

Phnom Penh: building B used for torture and interrogation

Phnom Penh: one of the more depressing places I've ever been

Phnom Penh: organ meat rice soup not bad for 2000 khr

Phnom Penh: second failed attempt at happy pizza

Kep: drying rice