After a lunch break, we went back to the Angkor area to visit a couple of ruins. As you can see by this picture of elephant sculptures, the decorations can be quite intricate around these temples:
Ta Prohm is a temple ruin that illustrates how these structures were taken over by the forest after being abandoned in the 13th century. It was decided to leave the trees intact when restoring the area to let people see how it was rediscovered in the mid-19th century.
Bayon in Angkor Thom that is a late 12th century temple that has 4 smiling faces facing in all four directions on each of about 25 towers. You can imagine the shock of the explorers on seeing these figures when they appeared as they they worked their way thru the jungle.
Tomorrow we spend the day at Angkor Wat.
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