April 2012
2 posts
Chong Khneas, Cambodia
February 23, 2012
Chong Khneas Village, Siem Reap - Cambodia
Most visitors to Siem Reap, if they see any of the lake at all, will do so by taking a tour of an hour or two at the Vietnamese floating village of Chong Khneas, which is the village where the speedboats to and from Phnom Penh and Battambang dock. If, for reasons of time and money, Chong Khneas is all you can do, then that’s...
Minor and Outlaying Temples, Cambodia
February 21-23, 2012
Minor and Outlaying Temples of Angkor - Siem Reap, Cambodia
(Ta Keo, Sras Srang, Chau Say Tevoda, and Thommanon)
Ta Keo - had to be the state temple of Jayavarman V, who had built Pre Rup. Like Pre Rup, it has five sanctuary towers arranged in a quincunx, built on the uppermost level of five-tier pyramid consisting of overlapping terraces, surrounded by moat, as a symbolic...
