Photos of Cambodia's Angkor Wat temples including photos of Ta Prohm, Preah Khan, Bayon,
Banteay Samre, Banteay Srei and Angkor Wat.
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Angkor Wat is more than the single famous temple of that name. It is actually a complex of approximately 100 temples
that occupy about 150 square miles near Siem Reap, Cambodia. These temples were built by the Hindu
people of this region between the 9th and 13th century. These temples are famous for the beautifully carved stone
bas reliefs with which they are covered. The main temple of Angkor Wat has been continuously used and
occupied since its construction in the 12th century. Many of the other temples of the Angkor complex
were long-abandoned when re-discovered in the 19th century. Many of these stone temples are still encased
in the roots of trees which overgrew them long ago.
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Larger version of these photos of the temples of Angkor can be viewed by using a mouse rollover
or using the Slideshow below.
These photos were taken with a Minolta X-700 film camera. The film, unfortunately, was processed in
Cambodia and essentially ruined. The decision to process there was made to avoid many passes through
airport x-ray machines during an extended multi-country trip. It's these ruined negatives that have been
scanned and restored from the dead with Photoshop to provide you with some idea of what the temples of
Angkor look like.
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Steps of Angkor Wat
The steps at Angkor Wat are steep enough to be a bit intimidating.
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Angkor Wat Heaven and Hell
There is a bas-relief stone mural at Angkor Wat that extends for perhaps a hundred meters
with many themes. This portion of the mural shows an interpretation of heaven and hell.
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Angkor Wat Apsara
The Apsara is a Hindu spiritual woman of beauty - sometimes nymph-like, sometimes
like a siren. They are recurrent images on the walls of temples throughout the
Angkor complex.
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Banteay Samre #3-20
Banteay Samre was built in the early 1100's AD. It is one of about 100 Hindu temples
in the Angkor complex of Cambodia.
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Banteay Srei #3-15
Banteay Srei is famous for the intricacy and detail of its stone carvings. This photo
is a detail of one example of the carvings over a doorway.
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Banteay Srei #3-16
This photo shows the detailed carvings in the stone walls of Banteay Srei.
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Banteay Srei #3-17
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Banteay Srei #3-18
The temple of Banteay Srei.
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A Temple In Angkor #3-3
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Temple in Angkor #3-4
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Angkor Doorway #3-8
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Angkor Temple #4-23
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Angkor Temple Entrance #4-25
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Angkor Stone Carving #4-26
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Angkor Temple #4-29
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Angkor Temple #4-30
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Angkor Temple #4-35
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Wall Detail in Angkor #2-18
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Bayon Face
The temple of Bayon in Angkor has over 200 large carved faces like these - many
over twenty feet tall.
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Bayon #2-31
The Bayon temple was constructed in the late 1100's and early 1200's.
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South Gate of Bayon
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Bayon Entrance
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Preah Khan Entrance
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Preah Khan
Portions of many of the Angkor temples lie in ruins. It's amazing, however, that these
temples survived the civil war during the rise, reign, and fall of the Khmer Rouge.
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Preah Khan North Entrance
The eerie mist of Roraima.
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Preah Khan #4
The temples of Preah Khan and Ta Prohm are somewhat similar in their appearance and
state of restoration - each with overgrown trees and roots growing up, on, and
through the stonework.
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Preah Khan #7
All of the temples of Angkor are amazing places to visit. But sadly, most of the
heads of the statues have been stolen by thieves throughout the centuries.
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Ta Prohm #4-10
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Ta Prohm #4-16
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Ta Prohm #4-27
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Ta Prohm #4-6
Part of the appeal of Ta Prohm from a visual standpoint is the jungle overgrowth that
still exists throughout much of the temple.
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Ta Prohm #2-8
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Ta Prohm #2-11001
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Robert Stephens
TheWorldinLight Photographic Gallery
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