Guide to Banteay Kdei
This temple is built in the same Bayon architectural style and will be your first glimpse of peaceful smiling stone heads if you’re early into your trip
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This temple is built in the same Bayon architectural style and will be your first glimpse of peaceful smiling stone heads if you’re early into your trip
Home to the iconic tree seen in “Tomb Raider,” it seems ridiculous that a tree has become so famous that people are flocking specifically to see it. Treebeard from “The Lord of the Rings” must be kicking a hobbit in a jealous rage right now.
Baksei Chamkrong is like the place you wander into when you’ve been unceremoniously turned away from the much cooler nightclub across the street.
It feels like the entirety of Phnom Bakheng is just for the ‘Gram. It’s not as spectacular as what was advertised but you have to continuously tell yourself that it’s going to be awesome because other people said so and you went through all the trouble of getting here.
Pre Rup can be ascended by very steep staircases at the four cardinal directions. If you were hoping that one of the staircases was “the easy one,” I didn’t find it.
Compared to its neighbours, Ta Som can leave you with no real lasting impression. If this temple could talk, I’m sure it would constantly be having “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” moments.
Once the capital of the Khmer Empire, Hariharalaya, all that remains from that bygone age are the royal temples: Lolei, Preah Ko, and Bakong.