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Sanskrit
writing dating back a thousand years.
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Another ruined
temple. This set of three towers is in very poor shape. Today's
tour was the "Obscure Tour", where we got to go
to ruins that are hardly ever visited.
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Judging by
the wear and age of the support structures, it's been a long
time since anyone worked on fixing up these temples!
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This set
of temples were back a ways, down dirt roads and muddy rice
fields. There were a few huts nearby, and the locals came
out to check us out. Some very cute little kids came out to
sell us some post cards and hand made crafts.
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Another temple
gate. It had rained the night before, so this government gate
keeper was bailing out the puddle in front of it.
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The traditional
4 heads on top of the city/temple gate.
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There was
a crew of about 200 workers clearing bushes, shrubs and cleaning
out the moat at this temple.
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A picture
of a ruined Khymer Kingdom Temple.
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A picture
of a ruined Khymer Kingdom Temple.
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A picture
of a ruined Khymer Kingdom Temple.
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A picture
of a ruined Khymer Kingdom Temple.
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A picture
of a ruined Khymer Kingdom Temple, with a worker cleaning
vegetation away.
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Teresa posing
in a door way.
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A picture
of a ruined Khymer Kingdom Temple.
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A picture
of a ruined Khymer Kingdom Temple with workers in blue clearing
brush.
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A picture
of a ruined Khymer Kingdom Temple, with two shady characters
posing under a spooky tree.
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A shot of
a typical field of rice in Cambodia.
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A Tuk Tuk
driving by with a passenger.
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A picture
of a ruined Khymer Kingdom Temple.
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Mike taking
a shot of a carving
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A Khymer
Carving
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This carving
has a small rabbit in it
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Teresa strikes
a pose!
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A picture
of a ruined Khymer Kingdom Temple.
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This tree
had some serious protection on it. They used to make criminals
climb these trees naked. Encouraged to do so with prods from
spears from behind.
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A temple
tree growing over the temple gate door.
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Teresa posing
with little girl selling hand made flutes inside these hand
woven tubes.
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A picture
of a ruined Khymer Kingdom Temple.
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The great
jungle/temple explorer!
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A picture
of a ruined Khymer Kingdom Temple.
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Umbrellas...for
rain or sun protection!
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Water Buffalo
grazing next to a ruined temple
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One of the
4 gates to Angkor Thom
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Gate Budda
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A view of
the gate statues from on top the 50 foot wall.
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Mike and
the Budda
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A picture
of a ruined Khymer Kingdom Temple.
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Teresa on
the steps...
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A picture
of a ruined Khymer Kingdom Temple.
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Do you see
the cat asleep on the temple?
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A closer
look...do you see the cat now?
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A picture
of a ruined Khymer Kingdom Temple.
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Looking down
the steps. Very steep...
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Another hot
and sunny day. This temple had bullet holes too. And some
graves of soldiers killed on this spot during the Khymer Rouge
war in the 1970's.
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One of the
4 gates, this one is almost never seen by tourists.
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From the
outside looking in. There used to be alot of fighting at this
gate during the recent war.
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A picture
of a ruined Khymer Kingdom Temple.
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A picture
of a ruined Khymer Kingdom Temple.
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A picture
of a ruined Khymer Kingdom Temple.
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A picture
of a ruined Khymer Kingdom Temple.
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A picture
of a ruined Khymer Kingdom Temple. This one was being repaired
by Communist China There was a stone cutting workshop in the
back, and alot of repairs had been done. You can really see
the bright orange new stone..
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Of all the
temples we saw being worked on, this one had the most amount
of repairs that had been done, and was the only one we saw
with actual people replacing stone. You could actually see
old/new...the only temple like this!
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On our last
day we took a vehicle deep into the Cambodian Jungle. After
a long drive up into the mountains and into a Cambodian National
Park, we arrived at this location, high up in the hills.
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This place
is called the "Thousand Lingas" because a thousand
of these had been carved into the river. Bathing and drinking
this water, which had passed over a thousand lingas was susposed
to be very good luck.
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The three
of us also went to a current and modern temple.
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There was
alot of concrete used in this buddhist temple, but the architecture
was true, and it was very cool to see.
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High up one
of these boulders we climbed stairs in our bare feet. Looking
down from the railing, you could see all of this limestone
type boulders.
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Inside a
building at the top was this carved Buda. This is actually
the top of the hill, carved and painted. Real large gems are
set into the eyes.
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Looking down
at one of the monk's houses, you can see how all the rain
water is caught and collected for later use.
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Our guide
pours water over the local shrine's "Linga", and
Teresa gets some good luck.
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Then Mike
got some good luck...
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And not to
be left out, so did I...
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Then we journed
further on, and went to a waterfall area. Above a set of several
waterfalls is this stone carving in the water. This carving
dates back about a thousand years, and has a Budah and some
other animals carved into the river bed.
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Mike and
I actually went swimming in the lower falls. It was a lot
of fun, and it was a good long drive to get there. We got
to see a bit of the country, which I really enjoyed. This
is us just walking along the river bed below the upper smaller
falls.
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