2nd Day in Siem Reap

On the second day, we have a tour guide to bring us to Angkor Tomb. His name is Tek, an English speaking tour guide. Anyone who is interested to go there, I highly recommended him to you. Hotel that we stayed did provide breakfast, so, after breakfast, Tek took us to buy the entrance ticket to Angkor. There are 1-, 3- and 5-day pass. We bought the 3-day one, cost us USD40 per pax. If you are planning to visit only Siem Reap, 3-day pass should be enough, I think the 1-day pass is for those who are visiting both Siem Reap and Phnom Penh and 5-day pass for those wat-mania or archaeologists.

1st day in Angkor, we visited the Elephant Terrace, Bayon, Bapuon, Khleangs, Preah Palilay, Prasat Kravan and Ta Phrom.


Elephant ride to Bayon

Elephant Terrace
(famous for its elephant carving)

Apsara, heavenly dancers

Elephant fighting

Bayon, the face towers

Little kid drinking his packet drink and walking in Bayon bare footed

An old tree on Bayon

Very beautiful and fine wall carving

Door entering the 2nd layer of Bayon

The faces in Bayon
(Each tower has 4 faces, except the center one, which has 8. It is the biggest Buddhist temple in Cambodia and located in the center of Angkor Tomb. It has 54 towers, so altogether it has 220 faces.)
Faces facing East represent compassion;
Faces facing West represent charity;
Faces facing South represent equality; and
Faces facing North represent sympathy.

The dangerous staircase in all wats.

Fungus on tree

Lunch in Angkor

Bridge to Ta Phrom

Ta Phrom under reservation

Ta Phrom is a unique temple, which it has a lot of big trees, and it was actually destroyed by them with their heavy roots sitting on the temple. Ta Phrom was famous for being one of the filming scenes in Tomb Raider.

Monks visiting Ta Phrom

I like this tree

Big old spider on rocks

Does this looks like a painting

Lotus flooding on big water bowl

Dinner at Khmer Family Restaurant
I especially like the pork rib... yum yum