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| Breakfast in Hotel
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| Omelette, toast, and jam.
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| Preah Khan (Sacred Sword Temple)
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I believe this fence was somewhere near Preah Khan (the Sacred Sword
Temple).
I like the texture of this photograph. Excellent.
| Information about the adopt-a-garuda program, a neat way to solicit
donations. (Garuda are statues of mythical half-bird, half-man
creatures.)
| Inside Preah Khan. Some combination of Di Yin's look, the feel of the
image, and the sense of the space makes this excellent.
| Like Ta Prohm, parts of this temple were in ruins.
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| A corridor where the roof caved in.
| Buildings in Preah Khan. Check out the reliefs. (They're clearer in the
full-sized image.)
| "I own this building," sayeth the tree.
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| A walkway near the outer boundary of the temple complex.
| Looking in another direction in the same vicinity.
| The Hall of Dancers, I believe.
| This two-story building has managed to survive.
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| From atop the building (or a nearby one -- I forget), looking down at this
section of the outer portion of the temple complex.
| Another tree (a strangler fig) that's fully fused with the stone.
| Looking up through the roof at a tree that's grown on top of it.
| A panorama of reliefs in one of Preah Khan's courtyards. This picture
properly captures the worn, aged, desolate look of the temple.
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| In an out-of-the-way place, I found little piles of stacked rocks, and, of
course, more reliefs of apsara dancers.
| A panoramic movie of the courtyard containing the stacks of rocks. It
contains more than what I showed in the previous photograph, but I
couldn't get them all in one picture (hence the movie).
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| Srah Srang
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We also visited Srah Srang, a large man-made lake built, as with
everything else in Angkor, by royalty.
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| Neak Pean (Hospital)
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| The monument in the central pond in Neak Pean, an area where the sick were
brought to rest and (hopefully) recover. It's roughly across the street
from Srah Srang.
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There are four additional ponds surrounding this central one. Each pond
has a statue (all different). The mouths of the statues are fountains when
the water level is high. (As you can tell from the previous picture, the
water level wasn't high--it was the dry season--, but I think the
fountains and ponds might look quite nice when full and flowing.)
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| Misc Angkor Thom
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As we (again) drove past the center of Angkor Thom, I noticed giant Buddha
statues scattered around in the trees.
We didn't stop to view them.
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| Lunch at The Blue Pumpkin
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| We ate lunch in downtown Siem Reap at The Blue Pumpkin.
| In addition to being a restaurant, The Blue Pumpkin is also a bakery
containing all the normal French pastries and even rare ones such as
madeleines. It also has pretty desserts.
| We sat in the upstairs lounge (at tables, not on the sofas).
| One street in Siem Reap as seen from the window where we sat. Also, many
hanging electrical wires.
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