Angkor, The Apsaras

After a day of tourist  "work" tourist we went to dinner with Apsara dance show. Below is the Wikipedia information about the Apsaras. In a  hall for about 800 people  a buffet dinner was served, after which there were performances. As usual, I try to excuse ourselves  that the pictures do not ref...

The Angkor Wat Temple

Quote: "Angkor Wat - the largest, most important and most famous temple complex of Angkor. The word Angkor is a local form of the word Nokor which comes from the Sanskrit word nagara, meaning city. Wat is the word for temple in all the countries of Indochina and, among others in Burma, and Thailand...

The Angkor, Bayon

Quote:  "Bayon – a Buddhist temple in Angkor Thom, the complex of the historic Angkor, built by King Jayavarman VII. Temple consists of 54 towers decorated with 216 a sad-smiling faced Buddha Avalokiteshvara, which are, perhaps, the image of the king. In 1980-1990, the restoration work carried out ...

Angkor, Ta Prohm

 Our pictures from the temple of Ta Prohm show two things: - the beauty of Khmer architecture and unrelenting aggression of nature in appropriating everything that it previously had been ripped out! Once again we see this extraordinary phenomenon, and once again the delight is not disturbed even by...

Siem Reap night life...

We have started our tour of Cambodia. We are now in  the hands of a Pole - Pawel  – a resident in this country. Together with his  local lady partner he’s been running a travel agency aiming mainly at Poles. We’ve joined a group composed of six Poles, one Frenchman and one Thai. We’ve arrived  in ...

13. Siem Reap by night and good-buy to Cambodia

Tired with excess of emotion while exploring the Angkor complex and  loaded with historical information, visitors must get relaxed in the evening on the streets of Siem Reap. The city takes care of it. More streets are being built here under a common name Pub Street. This means there is an...

12.c. Life around Angkor

Today three entries. c. Monday early afternoon. Well fed we got on  "board" of our tuk-tuk and we drove many kilometers through the villages around Angkor, where normal life goes on. Of course, it is the life in the shadow of the temples and dependent on tourists. We've tried to s...

12.b. Bayon again and more temples

Today three entries. b. Monday highnoon. We couldn't not to "drop in" to Bayon since we were passing by on the way to Ta Prohm. In the noon heat everything seemed to be sharper. About one kilometre from Angkor Wat there is another temple: 'Ta Prohm is a modern name of a ...