StaryNight: Cambodia - Day 2 (19.12.2014) Part 2

Second day - 19.12.2014 (Part 2)

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We continue our journey to Ta Prohm Temple after our lunch. Ta Prohm is a unique and beautiful temple, bound by massive roots of huge trees. The temple is cloaked in dappled shadow,its crumbling tower and wall locked in the slow muscular embrace of vast root systems.

Ta Prohm Temple

Crocodile Tree

The most popular of many strangulating root formation is that on the inside of the easternmost gopura (entrance pavilion) of the central enclosure, nicknamed the crocodile tree.

Tomb Raider Tree

It's one of the famous spots in Ta Projm is the so-called 'Tomb Raider Tree', where Angelina Jolie's Lara craft picked a jasmine flower before falling through the earth into...Pinewood Studios.

It's used to be possible to climb onto the damaged galleries, but this is now prohibited, to protect both temple and visitor.

We proceed to Banteay Kdei after Ta Prohm.

Banteay Kdei

It's a massive Buddhist monastery from the latter part of 12th century,surrounded by 4 concentric walls.

The inside of central tower was never finished and much of the temple is in a ruinous state due to hasty construction. It's considered less busy than nearby ta Prohm.

Sra Srang

East of Banteay Kdei is an earlier basin, Sra Srang (Pool of Ablutions).A tiny island in the middle once bore a wooden temple, of which only the stone base remains.

Pre Rup

Pre Rup means "Turning the Body" and refer to a traditional method of cremation in which a corpse's outline is traced in the cinders,first in one direction and then in the other; this suggest that the temple may served as an early royal crematorium.

We had our dinner at Little Italy where it is an elegant Italian restaurant.