Temples again... Haha I sound a bit boring here right... Even though we have visited the most famous temples on the first day, but actually there are also some smaller temples worth seeing.
Vandalism! We pushed the wall down...Neak Pean was the magical hospital where the waters were thought to have healing properties. The central temple is surrounded by 4 smaller pools where people can ask for power, wisdom, health etc.
East Mebon is a large temple-mountain-like ruin, rising three levels and crowned by five towers. Do you note the difference of this temple from others? No? See carefully... This temple was actually built with bricks instead of stones!!
It's bricks!!!
Model of the Year - Mr. WantanBanteay Srey displays some of the finest examples of classical Khmer art. The walls are densely covered with some of the most beautiful, deep and intricate carvings of any Angkorian temple. The temple's relatively small size, pink sandstone construction and ornate design give it a fairyland ambiance.
The beautiful carvings
The pink lady @ pink templeOn the way back, we dropped by at the Landmine Museum. Land mines, laid by the Khmer Rouge, the Heng Samrin and Hun Sen regimes, the Vietnamese, the KPNLF, and the Sihanoukists litter the countryside during the period of war. It is generally accepted that more than 40,000 Cambodians have suffered amputations as a result of mine injuries since 1979. That represents an average of nearly forty victims a week for a period of twenty years.
In the evening, we went back to the mountain near Angkor Wat. We climbed up the mountain and also the temple above the mountain in order to wait for the sunset. Who knows...
It was not easy to climb up...
Look at the sky...raining signs
JUMP!!!
to be continued...
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