Angkor Samadhi--self-driving Mekong tour

Angkor is a must visit, in a photograph you simply can not find the feeling.

Angkor is you can touch, you touch it tears dry. Angkor is unable to depict, any language, lines, and colors are looking pale and redundant. This is a brilliant, majestic, fight, atrocities, heavy rain, plague, disappear, reappear, time accompaning solidification together fantasy land. Once approaching, your soul will be its bleak beauty beauty of the thick, deep beauty by asphyxiation. "Sympathy", your heart will burst the great feelings, along the Angkor temples steep stairs difficult climb, climbing ...

Angkor Samadhi

— — Self-driving tour of Mekong River

New year's night, just after the aircraft crossed the sky of Phnom Penh, carrying with a winter coldness of 974 car club of 19 members, firmly slide in this full of legends and fantasy land.

Next morning, seven vehicles with the Chinese national flag and the flag of Cambodia 974 Club fleet to meet northern summer can see the brilliant sunshine, i.e. to the Angkor's direction.

The scenery along the picturesque: the green field on both sides of the slit in front of receded, like mirror-like Lakes and sometimes in green flashes, Cambodia's unique white cattle-neofine and scattered in the green grass, big brown sugar tree flakes surround in diaojiaolou.

From time to time with the woman sitting in front of his home with her kids milk, satisfaction flatly written on his face, the Montreal run free children although clothes are not blind, but clearly through the eyes of a teen. Small dogs are comfortably lying flat on the ground, no matter how strong sunlight through the thick treetops chronology and scattered in the body, and also occasionally shengelanyao make a yawn ...

Angkor Samadhi — such as fan-like life

Walk into the Angkor, we first of all by its ambitious the deterrent.

Angkor into Angkor and Angkor. Angkor city covers an area of 45 square kilometres, 600 Temple pagoda, the perfect combination of a city structure. The ancient city of temples, palaces, library, beach, Tower and cloister, the Court of Justice, hospitals, and other relics, duel farm superb architectural technology, exquisite carving art, so that each building is a magnificent, one out of interest-bearing tiptoe.

Angkor in English have been translated to Angkor Wat, the original meaning of the cities and temples, I do not know why is translated into the local people not to Angkor Wat? our accurate replies.

Walking in the temple Tower Suprun, we defined in the silence of the monastery always hear from the tall trees branches Centre between voices: "Wu-Ge" "— Ge" and "Wu-Ge" "— Ge", it sounds like two little courtship partner each other should be and at each other's call, although sight they figure, to listen to but sad song. Maybe this is like a cuckoo call to the towns make memorable name. So, we should be and the sounds of "Wu-Ge" and "Ge" — to explore the Angkor as representative of the Angkor Empire of the past.

The history is recorded in the stone age, Cambodia has human living, now for the Khmer people (also known as Kat characterizes people), they have established in the Mekong River first nation in Cambodia.

1 century a.d., one called "mixed fill" foreigner rate soldiers arrive by boat along the Mekong River Funan, defeated the Queen of willow and married to wife, independence is King, Funan Kingdom, served as the adjacent Al Tuo fill (this Baltic Mian province of mountains and village nearby). In the early 9th century a.d., zhenla dynasty established, the transposition of Angkor, ruled include Viet Nam, Thailand, Indochina peninsula, the mountaintops. 13 century a.d., the Princes of the Yuan dynasty week optimism in the vernacular zhenla credited in a book, a vivid description of the "rich zhenla" era of prosperity. Year 1493 years after Angkor in the encounter a horrendous massacre after the prompt from the world's sight. The next 400 years or so and then nobody knows. Until the nineteenth century in the 1970s, France of a wildlife biologist in the pursuit of a butterfly in a unique species, endemic in the zhenla "of lead, through the original ten jungle, discovered after Angkor monuments, Angkor was returned to the room and become one of the seven wonders of the world.

Thinking back, Angkor was what made the scene? fortunate to have the real wax endemic "in hand, reading to come are still fresh.

There are transferable between Syria and the city: "State City around May 20, five-door, door and two heavy, but East to open door, a door to both. Outside the city, the giant HO HO on a main road, bridge two Pong with stone God 54 pieces, such as the stone of the General form, very large and ning, five are similar. …… When countries, urn, Pong has more than 20 stone pagodas, hut hundred rooms. East to have Golden Bridge a, Gold Lion II, column to the left of the bridge: jinfo, into the hut. URN can be one of the North, there is a copper Tower, higher than the URN, hope ... JABs so "service orders, said:" National Palace and official institutions are Xiangdong, Glen country Palace in urn Golden Bridge, near the North Gate of the North, around five or six. The rooms of the tile to lead; Yu are Tavoy, yellow. Beam injection very giant Buddha sculpture, painting. Housing quite spectacular, repair Gallery complex road, abrupt varied slightly. ... "Needless superflous, Angkor was also proud country, no wonder element when the emperor sent a wanhuhou Mongolia and a thousand households Hou visit Angkor, the second one was" dogmatic not returning ", and" Tang "(then known as the lifestyles of the people) have been here many" jump ", the temptation of visible Angkor.

Eyes of Angkor is a tourist destination.

2005 sightseers as many as 140 million people. Think of Angkor Phoenix Nirvana-like reborn and rising, rising in the heart of a strange everything arises. Angkor is not language, but there are ideas in subtilis, ruins thousands articles ...

Angkor Samadhi — trees

Go to Angkor's along the way, the tree was green, the grass is green, flowers are brilliant, brilliant it can only be used to describe the "bloom", the way most seen mostly brown sugar trees and coconut palms, or alone in a corner of scattered field or in twos and threes diaojiaolou.

Hainan Sanya, South AsiaSingapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indochina peninsula of Viet Nam, the trees abound in understanding to brown sugar tree (Cambodia Guoshu) can be output with a unique, gorgeous and sugar, attracted my slightly surprised, did not make me excited.

However, drove into the city of Angkor, Kingdom of Angkor city original forest jungle has made me sit up and take note, their trees grow tall in the whip withered leaves across the trend of uplifting to me.

From the entrance to the gate of Angkor, a Boulevard, in the eyes of each tree stand straight, here are a few of the tree to hold together the individual, and no one around you adapt the shade shade.

Looked up days, see the day when you saw the tree's Crown, thick piece. Think of a child always hear my mother's education: tree not mend lumber, only to find that the mother would not necessarily right. What makes the Angkor city tree shoot so straight lumber, I have no idea.

Since then, both in Corbus Penn Hills (Litchi Hill), in the large Palace, in the spot Thies Lei (the woman King) and make up Tower, in the temple can be seen everywhere cangjian is a wide variety of trees, although different outline belong to the same mesh with the branch, but are so tall lush life.

They sometimes appear on the inside and outside the city walls, temples Yan siege in the shadows; sometimes cross in the walls or on the top of the building, homeopathy and put it in the root of varying shape, lazing on the temple walls or firmly embedded in the wall; when the building from the base at the bow, ren building debris in it silent cry of feet ...

In reach Tower Suprun Temple, this feeling is more strongly impact me.

Tower Suprun Temple of carving art to my shock since Needless to say, but always impact my eye is the monastery of ubiquitous, Imperial yinguang tree.

This is a drop in the dry season, the net the leaves reflected sunlight all bark and the entire white trees. Pine tops height into the cloud, root as strong as Python as a wall.

There are root tall as plates, quietly lying on the side of the wall, but has been unceremoniously screened the wall face.

There is a root of Robusta such as Python, on the ground, crawls, and distant tree roots interwoven lingering, you have me, I have you in. There are root rough as like legs walking a do not ask who's wrong. There are root naughty as the child climbing the wall that stretches the loins, and days. A root is spread along the corner then on the wall as long aerial roots return to Earth, covering half the building. Some of the cracks in the wall probe out of curiosity fight on sight strange world static looking to lose visitors. It was also used its claws fasten the wall stone, the wonder is on building of cut or the pain of deep ... Building on the head thrown does not grow out of the tree, tree surrounded by ruins of buildings. I do not know is building a tree of territory occupied or tree bother building peace, both as hold hand function and Yu-bring old partner, although bickering but also a diplomat.

According to historical records, I seem to find the city of Angkor so shoot was formed by large trees.

Year 1493, Siam invasion of Angkor. It is said that Angkor confronted a massacre. With millions of residents in this war were killed, the Golden treasure plunder empty. Then the body during a storm and Sun in hot and humid climate of interwoven into epidemic, so a massive outbreak of plague, survived the war, people had to leave town to flee their homes, the castle was abandoned in bloody and rotting flesh, even aggressors also abandoned city. It is precisely because of this unprecedented disaster to man, but he gave Angkor City trees to respawn. They draw a greedy blood's oxygen, crazy growth. Thus, hundreds of years, the trees, vine city was drowned by the forest, as if nothing happened, then no lift.

Everything seemed to have returned to the primitive era ...

But all in all flatly wrote: people are small, human civilization is weak, there's plenty of time for nature, it can change everything. Mankind should comply with the nature, to respect the natural enough.

Angkor Samadhi — architecture and sculpture

"Angkor" in Sanskrit means "City", it is the State capital, is a religious holy city.

Angkor monuments in ubiquitous momentum as the rainbow of complex and delicate stone Emboss always crashed into my eyes, so I can't breathe without thinking.

Whether Angkor cultural representatives of early architectural bakheng, 10 century female Palace or in the second half of the 12th century expansion of Angkor Empire city, or hundreds of craftsmen took more than 30 years the construction of Angkor Temple, each building are square quite satisfactory.

Space of strict in pursuit of a founder have a heavy upward development. The temple building often five layers of the altar to the center of the city, from gentle to steep. Each layer of the span are dependent on the ladder. With the expansion of the Centre became steep stairs, finally approaching 90 ° angle. Climbing up not only need hands and feet, five body cast "order" and take the heart without distracting thoughts. According to legend in Hindu teachings, the tower that is manifested in the worship of the mountain, the ladder is the only way to heaven, only the heart of God, belief in height in 1897 single-minded, soul dust can be serpentine, ultimately to the happiness of the other side. As the beauty of the Angkor "Description:" no climbing over Angkor temples of high ladder, not understanding the Angkor building the power of belief. " Angkor building ladder I repeatedly denied: along the steep stairs, I finally put down after more than a book really appreciate secondary school textbooks in the rain the mount Tai of quotations from the mountain of sacrifices to instrument "in the paragraph content:" ... The predecessors of distraction, posterity, see end of predecessors footwear, predecessors see descendants, picturesque health tiring, so-called wear chest yu shi palpable day difficult also. ”

The arrival of each temple, irrespective of whether material is brick is stone, whether in the temple is the temple is the Palace, all by the gigantic was trimmed Spruance stones like base building blocks like layer stacked up, cohesion and grinding brick on joints, piece of paper is difficult.

Countless interdependent to carry stones of power to the Tower's edge straight, showing stone structures specific to the power of beauty. Built on a high pedestal of 13 mBakheng on, there are 5 seats on the platform to build the Tower, pedestal surrounded by brick tower block, the base is divided into 36 5 layers, each layer for the construction of small tower block 12, constitute by 100 seat height well-arranged and picturesque Temple Tower Group, from afar, as one of Tallinn. As time went by, although many buildings have fallen down, many stone slot as the foundation of subsidence or other reasons why a larger gap, but even the remaining building even the remaining empty base can also be communicated to you with the same refined feel.

Angkor buildings everywhere beautiful carving even more essential.

In the mountain nesbakken, 100 years ago by fine Temple tower statue and modern people watched the sunset with Outlook. In Angkor Empire City Central famous BA Yun temple. Temple of the second layer in the middle of the stone base, base surrounded by relief corridors, the entire base on 48 Tower, the Tower of four are carved like Buddha looks King head. Head portrait smile, gaze, unique style, this is the famous "Angkor smile." Angkor city Northeast Office of women's Palace, from brick to stone structure transition represents the building. Temple Tower consists of three side-by-side of the telescope of God Temple, Wai to walls, wall, door around the shimen beautifully complex and not trivial in relief, vivid, overlaid chic, especially in the many well known variety woman statue. The Temple of goddess are mostly bare footed, full breasts like ripe fruit, rich mellow shoulder-arm as long lithe joints, beads long dress with PEI Department of plump and waist, skirt and dance with the wind, you even can hear their neck and arm of Ying Luo, ankle jinchuan in walking on the issues between the vocal impact sound transmission in the wind.

The raspberry is Angkor Temple at the second road corridors over 100 metre long mural of sculpture, the contents of the north side of Emboss taken from ancient Indian epic the Ramayana Hin-that is, in the South of the ancient Indian epic taken from the mo he direction of multiple ", along the gallery walk, you will reveal a book, story, expatiated, relief craft exquisite exquisite.

In the meantime the war scenes, Royal travel and production, processing and cooking, and other worldly manifestation of the plot, and flower cloud grass and other decorative pattern. More interesting is a Monkey King with a group of monkeys war scenes, group of monkeys with facial expressions, and expressions rich and varied, it is said that the action, this is the Ch'eng compose the bodhisattva shape. I really hope that this statement is not accurate, but this fresco but real way than our journey back many years.

The first architecture or sculpture, people endlessly.

Until you see the discarded in the wilderness of incomplete towers high temple, all recipe no longer compete. Tower high temple structure works only completed most of the sculpture also just to talk about, is what it's there, so that we can taste Angkor building rugged simplicity of tension.

Angkor monuments of great architectural and superb embossing techniques, is Angkor era prosper in miniature.

With the decline of Angkor, Kingdom of Angkor is jungle annihilation, be forgotten. Today, when we have the opportunity to stand in front of it, you hear when you see everything that was not the passage of time but without attenuation, on the contrary, all Angkor due to time magic switch and leave the level of impressions and endless aftertaste.

Self-driving Featurette

In Cambodia and nights many scenarios let me unforgettable.

I could not forget in Kampong port: on the beach.

A has not yet developed a good beach, no commercial atmosphere. In it, you want to do what you can do only the rest. You can in the absence of pollution of the sea tour, eyes can see only the clear seawater, water walks a bunch of small fish, in the sand climbed into the climb out of small crabs. You even a seaweed are not seen. Tired of sitting in a beach chair on rest, no one will bother you, thirsty to drink a beer or coffee ice is bi's heart spleen. Here is what I've seen most of the beaches unforgettable virgin land.

In Angkor we also encountered on tourists, Golden method.

Night-time, on the road to Angkor in the Woods, thousands of monks who dressed in white clothes of nuns and monks wearing yellow hundred monks sitting in the Forum's legs crossed into the sides of the sermon, to hear Monk in a row to a row, in front of everyone are lit a candle, the entire forest silence, only the monks of sound reverberate in the forest. The second day, we pursue their whereabouts, to the large Palace. I saw two huge water tank thing. Monk at the West side of the pool bath changing, nun in the East side of the pool Wun washes. An old expression, is dedicated to with the photographer to shoot her.

At Angkor is met several marriage of thatched cottages, return trip also encountered in Phnom Penh and saw the funeral of spectacular scenes.

In Tonle, we saw the local people the most simple life, seen floating market scene, see water established primary schools, secondary schools, sports grounds, police. It can be said that everything is so fresh, singular.

The way we encounter most of the school and school children.

Very few people wearing shoes, small walking, the large number of cycling, uniform wear long-sleeved t-shirt with white and blue trousers or skirts. Cambodia attaches great importance to education, each 10 km there is a school and a temple. The children go to school is free, you can have from primary school to University (unless there is no need to enter University at its own expense). Cambodia in the years of war have lost a large number of elite, they nurture children as their top priority. Believe that in the near future, the children will become the backbone of the country.

In almost every scene see disabled people.

They are retired veterans, young man, there is the old man, or young children. They have no arms and legs, and some even have a lower body. All this is decades of war, bring them. However, you still can see them smile, they get their own way of life. The band played their own organizations, in each of the attractions for visiting tourists broughtWith a strong taste of the music of Cambodia. The music in Angkor city buildings and walk through the forest, and then wound in your heart ...

Throughout the journey, we feel deeply is open with China and Cambodia national flags of off-road vehicle in the territory of Cambodia, gallop, see everywhere they went, they gave us a vote to warm and envy.

When our team entered the Lychee Hill, over Angkor Shing Mun, docked at the top of the bucket Tower or female Palace, there is Angkor's greetings with us. The black whip, we met once in Cambodia to live overseas compatriots. When they see our car red flag with five stars, they ran excitedly in someone across the street to and embrace our drivers. They also tell us that our powerful make them these overseas Chinese also keenly felt the social status, one Uncle also warmly invited us to his Chinese friend in Phnom Penh on French restaurant.

In the same day that we know will be the sea voyage by the helmsman and the roadside wildflowers don't pick on the singing painter-music interchange and Yan Jiang Jie, less talkative but my wife loves little wink, intends to add next year are the couple of Huai-Nan baby, there are always applied to the toilet is small, with our emergency in Kampong port sweep of the brave, always boast licensing of young promising and talented event of Ankole, Ann's and Ann Tsai, see water on Halo's sole from the sea back the unecessary NET NET, often dressed up laoshen robbers like riding a motorcycle snooping "military intelligence" of the East China Sea and designer Adam, as we travel pay tremendous hardship handsome Cao secret and always carry a camera ran ran the Lam after ...

The entire trip because of their stay is more exciting, memorable.

Recently, the Beijing News from the "see an article on: after satellite probes, real Angkor Empire's territory is from now on the Northwest Cambodia Angkor ruins all the way to the South to Tonle, in other words, the heyday of the Angkor Empire than it is now seen by hundreds of times larger, it is difficult to imagine it was busy ...

Look at photos, reminding me so many good memories, memories that I miss in Cambodia's night and day, there are too many regrets soul dream around me, make me determined: must longer travel to Mekong river trip, go exploring Angkor mystery ...

(Corner of Angkor)

(Rest of the little Monk)

(Tower Suprun Temple tree)

(Tonle girl)

(Kampong Harbor sunset)