Travel: Asia: ThaiPix: Cambodia, including Angkor Wat

Click thumbnails for larger image. Photos taken by Jack Dodge on Overseas Adventure Tours Discover Thailand trip in November 2002.


Attractive hotels, many partially built, dot the village of Siem Reap. This is the Angkor Hotel.	It's lobby was rich with local wood and art.	Cambodians hope the splendor of the past, such as this entrance to Angkor Thom, will draw many visitors.	The gods, shown here, line up on the left, the demons on the right, in mythical tug of war..

The Bayon temple complex, built before 1200 C.E., retains a quiet sacredness in spite of the increasing crowds.		A stone lion stands at the entrance to Bayon	Dancers shown in a carved stone detail at Bayon.

Another detail from the stone walls of Bayon	Stone is carved to look like turned wood	The story of ancient battles is intricately carved into stone.	Tumbled stone show some of the construction technique.

However, the giant faces of Buddha dominant Bayon.	Perhaps the most haunting sight, was Ta Prohm, also shown at the top of this page. It was left almost as discoverers found the amazing complexes ancient Angkor.		Once rarely visited, now crowds come daily to see Angkor Wat.
			(Note: Unfortunately Jack did not have the camera on our boat ride on Tonle Sap Lake, where floating villages move with the seasonal rains.)
Renovations are ongoing at Angkor Wat, built in the mid-12th century as Angkor's main temple.		Mary reaches the top (5th) level of Angkor Wat, which houses several Buddha shrines.

Our group's walk through a suburban neighborhood brought out lots of curious children.	This simple monument, containing the bones of some of the hundreds of thousands of victims, is the Killing Fields Temple Memorial in Siem Reap.		Nearby is a simple temple with a colorful shrine with many figures of Buddha.

Scenes from Angkor Wat, Bayon and other sites in Siem Reap, Cambodia

Want to learn more about this tour of Thailand and Cambodia? Read the comprehensive journal, with photos, by Ruth Marie Lyons, who made the same trip in 2001.