Monday, April 9, 2007







OK, as promised, here is Ta Prohm, the celebrity temple. It's the setting for Lara Croft Tomb Raider, and probably the most popular temple in Siam Reap. It was a mid-size temple when it was built, housing 12,000 priests, monks, dancers etc. and supported by 80,000 farmers and craftsmen in nearby villages. But nobody really cares about that. It's the only temple that was left in its original intertwined state with the jungle. Obviously trees growing in the walls of the building causes lots of structural pressure, but the French decided to leave this temple as they found it, enmeshed in tree roots.

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