Preah Rup is one of the oldest temples, and is also one of the few you're allowed to walk all over, which adds to its rundown state. It's also ok to walk up Angkor Wat, which is strange given its importance. I guess the authorities take comfort in the fact that the original inhabitants of Siam Reap bear no physical resemblance to today's tourists. I'm guessing this because the temples are scaled by long flights of very steep and narrow steps, as you can tell by the struggling little postcard seller in the photo. Although it's tough to get up, it is manageable, but getting down in one piece is a real challenge. So the old inhabitants must have been about 80 percent legs for them to have designed stairs like this. Or maybe not, since archeologists think the temple was used for state funerals, so maybe only the dying person went up the stairs, then was trapped up there until he died.