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| Angkor Home Hotel
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| Our hotel, the Angkor Home Hotel.
| Half the inner courtyard. Notice the large interior light well, along
with the reclining mats by the fish pond. During a later day when I had
time to relax, I did so here.
| A long movie (with narration) touring our very nice suite.
| Looking down into the hotel's inner courtyard from near our hotel room on
the top (fifth) floor.
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| Our balcony.
| Siem Reap as seen past our balcony's flowers.
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| Angkor Wat
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| The approach to Angkor Wat.
| The massive moat surrounding Angkor Wat. It's more than a mile on each
side.
| Elephant crossing?
(They're tame and used for transportation.)
| The stone bridge to Angkor Wat.
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| The front entrance to the outer-most temple.
| The central part of the outer-most temple. Notice the worn sculptures
atop the tower? We'd be seeing a lot of these.
| Reliefs of apsara dancers, a traditional Cambodian dance. These are
omnipresent as well.
| The back of the entrance temple. I like the style of columns in the
windows.
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| Ibid, crumbled remains of part of the temple.
| A close-up of one windows and its surrounding reliefs. Don't miss the
ones at top as well.
| Another temple, this one closer to the central complex than the one we
walked through to enter the area.
| A nearby lily pond, across which are many vendors in the shade.
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| An outer hallway in Angkor Wat's main temple complex.
| More asparagus dancers, all in slightly different poses.
| A very faded wall painting of an army.
Don't worry, I have much
better pictures of reliefs later.
| A long relief of a mythical battle.
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| The easy way to tell the relief is of a mythic battle: find a many-armed
god.
| A big army (with an elephant) going to war.
| A marching band? (with gongs and horns and drums)
| A powerful man with many slaves.
I actually took this picture on the opposite side of the temple. (The
series of reliefs go all the way around.)
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| The perimeter of the main temple.
| Everywhere in the world one can find piles of rocks balanced atop each
other.
| Steps to nowhere?
| One of Angkor Wat's five spires.
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| A courtyard.
| A steep stairway on the way up to the innermost temple, on the third
level.
| Someone stole their heads!
| Another approach to Angkor Wat, I think.
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| A final view of another side of Angkor Wat. Excellent.
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