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| Looking the other direction down the river. Downtown and the Old Market
are on the right, not visible.
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| More Angkor Sights
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| On the way through Angkor, we stopped by Bayon to view the reliefs on its
surrounding temples. During this stop, I snapped this picture of Bayon
itself.
| These glowing buildings were prisons, nine in all.
| Close-up.
| Elephant reliefs along the Elephant Terrace.
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| More of the Elephant Terrace. It's long. (You can see the wall continue
in the distance.)
| Gosh, this wall is heavy!
This series of sculptures is pretty long
as well.
| The intricately carved Terrace of the Leper King. Excellent. The
terrace is U-shaped and covered with similar carvings on every surface
inside and out.
| A panoramic movie taken from the top of the Terrace of the Leper King. It
first looks south toward the Elephant Terrace, then swings east toward the
former prisons (these are easy to miss because they match the color of the
ground), then continues until it looks north. The main purpose of the
video is to show the landscape of this part of Angkor. I like how things
glow in the late afternoon sun.
Although I intended to show the lotus-shaped fountain at the beginning of
the video, it's too small and I can't make it out.
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| Phnom Bakheng
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| Angkor's landscape as seen from hilltop temple Phnom Bakheng.
| New technology atop an old way of traveling. Excellent.
(People could pay to ride an elephant to the top of the hill.)
| Photographers and monks.
I like the glow.
| The steep, worn steps leading up to the temple. Slightly over-exposed.
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| Ditto, but under-exposed.
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Sorry, it appears I didn't directly take any picture of the temple itself.
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| Dinner and Show at Amazon Angkor
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| Part of the cavernous Amazon Angkor where we ate dinner
and watched a dance performance.
| My first plate, clockwise from top:
- papaya salad - lunch's
was better.
- pad thai - it lacked peanuts, which I consider important to the
dish.
- amok fish - fish, mashed like a paste into a casserole, steamed
in coconut milk in banana leaf. The best dish on the plate.
- shrimp with pineapple.
- spring roll.
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- a cold Vietnamese noodle salad.
- vegetables (cooked).
- tomato (raw).
- deep-fried banana
- another amok fish basket.
- another section of a spring roll.
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- jelly.
- kanom krok - This is the proper name for a Thai dessert of tiny
coconut pancakes. This restaurant had labeled this "nmoun kroc"; I
guess that's the name of the very similar Cambodian version.
- deep-fried green soybean thing.
- two Khmer sweets - hmmm.
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Clockwise from top:
- "Khmer sweet with banana" - the solution was warm and thus weird
and I couldn't get past that.
- milk cream stick - good. It was neat how they/we made this. We
poured a milk-cream syrup into a meal holder shaped like a popsicle
maker. We then placed the holder in a slot in a big cylinder that
apparently was filled with liquid nitrogen (or something else much
colder than ice). It froze in a matter of minutes. Tasty and fun.
- papaya.
- potato pudding - sweet and syrupy. Di Yin liked it.
| This low-resolution movie recording the music being played when we
arrived. It feels Indian to me.
| Apsara dancers, the first real act in the show.
| A movie of the apsara dancers, with sound (like all the movies I took of
the show). The dance is known for how people move their wrists.
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| A fun little movie of group dance. It makes me think of a village.
| A movie of an even livelier part of the dance.
| A movie of a dance that makes me think of working in the fields.
| Apsara dancers again.
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| And a long-ish movie of the apsara dancers in action.
| One last image of apsara dancers, who so inspired ancient artisans that
they put numerous reliefs of them on Angkor Wat.
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| Fodder for Prasat Kravan Panorama
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