Cambodia Temple

Cambodia Temple

Northwest of Phnom Penh lies the famous cultural epicenter of Cambodia – Siem Reap. For 600 years the area around the provincial town of SIem Reap was the heart the Khmer Empire.

Prasat Ta Prohm

Constructed in 12^th-13^th, Ta Prohm is another popular temple with its most distinguishing features being flora and trees sprawling across the temple site, their roots snaking across stones and probing walls. Featured in the film, “Tamb Raider,” Ta Prohm was once a wealthy monastery and is well worth an extended exploration of its dark corridors and jungle-infested plazas.

However, there’s much more to Angkor than just these main sights. The site is vast, covering an area of some 400 square kilometers, and diverse, with buildings ranging in scale from early, tiny brick towers like Prasat Kravan to the massive and stark sandstone edifice of Ta Keo. If you are tired, the floating villages of Tonle Sap, the massive freshwater lake that dominates central Cambodia, are worth exploring. The land south of Siem Reap is part of the lake’s flood plain and is inundated from June to November.

North of town, the rice fields stretch out to the natural boundary formed by the Kulen Mountains which divide the lush lowland from the province’s more barren north. At Phnom Kulen you can find Cambodia’s largest reclining Buddha, carved out of a massive rock, while seeing spots in the Siem Reap riverbed that have been carved with intricate lingas and Hindu religious scenes from the 11^th-12^th centuries. Visitor can relax in the jungle surroundings and cool off in alluring waterfalls.

In additional to temples, adventurous visitors can zipline through the jungle at Flight of the Gibbons or enjoy a cool drink on Pub Street after a satisfying day of seeing the many sights that Siem Reap has to offer.

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