Looking back at Angkor (3) – Angkor monuments

Angkor monuments total size of more than 600 buildings, built in about 45 square kilometres of tropical jungle.

For human visitors are just a drop in the ocean, the years of the war in Cambodia by land around the mine, those hidden in the gleam of the building will be more suitable.

Angkor-King: once zhenla Kingdom kukdo is located, is the most magnificent in the history of Southeast Asia's capital city, its population reaches millions when.

Repeatedly destroyed by war, and after several reconstructions, the ultimate in 1426, is discarded. The Palace building was now completely gone, leaving only the stone walls, gates, the temple and altar, the showing at once.

The whole city has 5 gates, four blocks away at each side wall of the median, another victory gate, King winning back towards the door.

Each door 20 metres high, the top has a mysterious mystery Simian statuary, serene smile, no one knows who these statues, some say is the founder of the Kingdom, but also some people said that Shiva. No matter who you are, they have stood for centuries there, quietly watched the city's decline and fall of the city. Each time through the gates, I'll go back and see the eye, looking at the picture with a smile face faded away in sight.

South Gate – Angkor is one of the flags

BA Rong Temple: this is our stay the longest temples.

To see the sunrise on the first day, it went straight here, I want in a car in a car before the appointment of the tourists who are famous smile.

Much of that is a mountain, close to know surprisingly pagoda, 49, stupa stands as a succession of hills, in the middle of the peak.

All of the stupa of the tower are inscribed on each side of the great Buddha, it is said that the Buddha's face is the typical Khmer people face, they serene smile, this is the famous "Khmer smile."

From 7 a.m. to nearly 10 points, I have been through numerous stupas, regardless of body that there are around the corner, a double laughing eyes watching my every move.

This lets me quickly lost in a sheet and a smiling, forget from where it came, and don't know where to go, so has always go on.

Tabb Chi Temple: If you read the Tomb Raider "and the" mood "will have the impression that the impacts of a giant tree around stupa, occupied the promenade, RIP fence, when the stone steps, exploration into the Windows and doors, lift the roof ...

The game of life and the stone has been like this. Big tree trunk along the outline of the building, as if the walk a Chinese ghost story "tree fine Granny's tongue, at any time will jump up haunted man's neck.

Trees and the building of this suffocating hug Jean protection dilemma, if forced apart, will the temple destroyed trees died.

Holy Temple: allegedly lamas learning and spiritual place, was once the most importance to the Khmer Temple, one of the most important festivals and ceremonies are held here, thousands of people supporting and maintaining this temple.

The temple is very large, and go all the way along the centre line, one of the courtyards, corridors endless. Both sides are of dark corridors and large stones stacked up, there is a risk to get into and prohibit climbing logo, description here continues to collapse.

Female Palace: pink sophisticated exquisite female Palace, gorgeous color, delicate relief, have been unable to use the beauty of words to describe.

Building surface almost completely covered in relief, no gaps. Hailed as "Angkor art drilling". Unfortunately, exquisite part has been surrounding it, are not allowed to enter, and people, not where the thin pondering.

The Queen's Palace the most beautiful a statue that was on the verge of being we miss, they call her "East of the Mona Lisa"

Collapse of dense column: here is really shocking to me, was a city scale almost as large as Angkor Temple, still sleeping in the jungle.

Collapse multiple layers of stones, jungle and mysterious atmosphere in the fracture of the pillar, distorted walls between diffuse. Once the bridge collapse, the megalithic a deck then neatly folded block on the ground, seems to be down of dominoes.

Former glory and now has become the ruins, temples than the previous ones more to the infinite, laments the ancient civilization of the Khmer Nation superb, more relentless and forces of nature exclamation, how many brilliant today are dust, leaving only the stone covered with MOSS.

In the ruins of collapsing mealea, sure enough, there is the upper reaches of the expedition.

Climbed the walls collapsed, the foot is a paved road, wooden planks, seven turns eight after the bend wood road, in a wooden staircase beside GA however only. Climb the woodwork from the window of the slit drill past dumbfounded, is seven vertical eight stone heaps. This time around will quietly a natives, sit in the stone, the mouth of a Bacillus subtilis. After boarding the stone, they don't see any way you can continue, but disappointed, ask the local people: these? he pointed to one and a half meters square stone pillar behind said: there!

Stone pillar behind the apparently original a yard, but even standing in the post, you don't see any way down, only to a post on the edge of the half, before they saw a tree trunk nail into a vertical ladder there, about 5 or 6 m height and the angle between the surface of a 60-degree.

Next to the ladder, the locals will come. He is a guide, we at his command, in various sizes stone, wall, window-to climb down into drilled. Many seem to have reached an impasse, he also took us through the various gap between. When I climb a perfectly--even found him standing there playing with from 7-, 8-metre high wall hanging a piece of cane, I was horrified to think that the next step is to climb up along the rattan, but fortunately it is not, he just casually play. In this way, we follow him, once in the collapsed mealea corridors, walk through the Studio and Gallery.

The collapse of the overwhelming majority of Emboss mealea have been stolen, leaving only the original has broken statue and speckled chiseled.

The original promenade, now go in there very

In the dark, in fact, compared to climbed in Angkor Wat, it brought me deeper terrorist, I do not know the overhead of stones will suddenly fall off, because outside large ruins of predecessor is now like this.

In fact, more than these monuments, I'm talking about are the essence of cream and a story.