Album: Angkor Thom

     Album:2015:04-14 Angkor Wat and the temples:Angkor Thom
Walking up to Angkor Thom
amidst the New Years traffic jam (our driver wouldn't drive this close) ( comments) 		The bridge statues
( comments) 		Guardians on the bridge
( comments) 		Faces watching the bridge
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Another pretty face on the bridge
( comments) 		And a monkey on the bridge!
( comments) 		Someone had just picked him up
and tossed him in the river, but he came back out unperturbed. ( comments) 		Someone had just picked him up
and tossed him in the river, but he came back out unperturbed. ( comments)
Climbing around the bridge
( comments) 		Two monkeys
( comments) 		Trouble monkey
( comments) 		Monkey filming a monkey
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He liked to rub his face
against the light ( comments) 		Monkey
( comments) 		Scratchy monkey
( comments) 		Sniffing the ground
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Monkey in front,
Cop in back ( comments) 		Monkey face
( comments) 		inside the walls.
( comments) 		Wow
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Woman statues
( comments) 		Framed hallway
( comments) 		More steep stairs
( comments) 		Looking down at the old roof
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Surveying my kingdom
( comments) 		The amazing temple complex
Note the ghostly faces in some of the columns ( comments) 		Along the wall
( comments) 		Arielle goes down the other steep side
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hallway
( comments) 		Narrow walkway
( comments) 		Dave
( comments) 		Arielle checks the weather
from her temple-city home window ( comments)
Stone face statue
( comments) 		Face up close
( comments) 		Wall carvings
( comments) 		The temples from the other side
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South end of the temples
( comments) 		Dave in front of temples
( comments) 		There's a festival
for the New Year all across the temple city grounds ( comments) 		And Arielle finds a folk dance
and joins in ( comments)
In front of Baphuon
On the side of Angkor Thom ( comments) 		The tower
( comments) 		Looking down at the entry
of Baphuon, towards the center of Angkor Thom ( comments) 		Towers around the Angkor Thom grounds
I believe they are called Prasat Suor Prat. It's unclear why they are here, the local legend is that high wires were stretched between them for tightrope walkers ( comments)
Dave wearing Arielle's hat
( comments) 		We sit inside the tower
to eat some food, a spicy green mango salad. ( comments) 		These kids are intent
on being in our photos ( comments) 		Exiting Angkor Thom
out the back (North). ( comments)
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