Album: Angkor Thom Sunset

     Album:2015:04-14 Angkor Wat and the temples:Angkor Thom Sunset

We go back to Angkor Thom to try to find a ride back to Siem Reap, and discover that New Year's festivities are happening and the temple is open late!

This affords us some incredible shots of the lit up temple at night, and amazingly almost nobody else was taking advantage of this.

Thankfully we get a ride
that brings us back to civilization, since we discover that we are out at Neak Pean, many kilometers from anyone and all the Tuk Tuks have left already. We were starting to wonder if we wouldn't make it back to get a Tuk Tuk to Siem Reap and might have to spend the whole night walking. ( comments) 		At Angkor Thom at sunset
the new Years festival is in full swing ( comments) 		And the temple is open late
( comments) 		Us at the temple
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Another walkthrough Angkor Thom
( comments) 		Magnificent
( comments) 		Hallway
( comments) 		Face
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Faces
( comments) 		Face
( comments) 		More faces of Angkor Thom
( comments) 		Looking up at the top
of the temple ( comments)
Face as the sun goes down
( comments) 		The temple
( comments) 		Face
( comments) 		The forest between two temple peaks
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Window
( comments) 		Another face
( comments) 		Past a wall..
( comments) 		Down a wall..
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Arielle relaxes
( comments) 		My girl
( comments) 		Temple peaks
( comments) 		Some buddhist monks,
preparing for the evening ( comments)
Windows
( comments) 		A face views the forest
( comments) 		Dave looks down a ledge
( comments) 		Looking down
at what looks like Roman ruins. ( comments)
I had a bunch of these
that I wanted to make a panorama from, but the parallax wouldn't allow it. ( comments) 		Down the stairs
( comments) 		Huge Angkor Thom mouth
( comments) 		..from this face
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Carving
( comments) 		My love
( comments) 		Huge Angkor Thom Face
( comments) 		They light up the temple
for the New Years festivities and leave it open late! ( comments)
The top of the temple
( comments) 		The front grounds
( comments) 		The grounds outside the temple
(on the East side, I think?) ( comments) 		A lit up temple
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As the sun sets
( comments) 		Love
( comments) 		The East side of the temple
( comments) 		Glowing in the lights
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Dave watching the sky
get darker around the temple ( comments) 		The lights!
( comments) 		Arielle does a shadow dance
( comments) 		The spots come on,
to send a message to the heavens ( comments)
"Aliens, land here!"
( comments) 		Wow.
( comments) 		Beautiful temple at night
( comments) 		Messages for the gods
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Lit face at Angkor Thom
( comments) 		Arielle glows
( comments) 		Beam of light
( comments) 		Most people don't realize..
that I was the model for the temple faces. ( comments)
Buddha backlit.
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