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“Travel through Cambodia, December 2011”
From Cambodia, posted by Arlo Midgett on 2/03/2012 (200 items)
- Shrimp for sale
- Head-packin’
- Love the fire-breathing dragon flammable warning
- Scooter airbag
- Sunset on the open road
- Erosion
- First view of Lolei
- Lolei
- Inset
- Not so much "restoration" as, well, it’s not really "preservation,&quo…
- What it used to be
- Gentle men.
- Jungle monk laundry
- New temple
- Inside the new temple
- Dragon corner
- How in the world did those seeds get in there?
- Empty cans
- Preah Ko approach
- Ruin stacks
- Preah Ko panorama
- Preah Ko
- Balding
- Cow
- Original facade
- Looking up
- Closeup — check out that granularity
- Restoration work
- Intricate carvings
- Script
- How do we get a lawn mower up there?
- Bakong
- Bakong
- Bakong (the old temple)
- The new Bakong temple is almost ready
- Looking out the entrance of Bakong
- How much longer will this work?
- Bamboo scaffolding
- Old doorway
- Bakong
- Sunlight
- Trunkless
- Disrespect
- Taking a break before climbing the rest of the way
- Photo at the top
- Bakong’s peak
- Looking down from the top of Bakong
- Milkman?
- Sunset near Angkor Wat
- The nearest we got to seeing a decent sunset near the ruins
- Phenom Bakheng
- Taxi?
- Something bit me
- Photographers, start your shutters!
- Angkor Wat, sunrise, day 1
- Set for sunrise
- The last moment before the sun appeared
- Sun rays
- Sun burst
- Flares
- Die hard photographers
- Lily pads
- Now that the sun’s up, time for I-been-there portraits!
- Look at that join!
- Oksana, doorway
- Inset
- Look, Brad Walker! Ancient fishlips!
- Aligned
- This is a bathroom, not a shower. Or a foot… washing place. Or a rocket ship.
- Kitten!
- Double kitten!
- Did they have a lathe?
- Shadow play
- Light play
- Such carvings!
- Delicate carvings
- Detail
- We were not allowed up to this "sacred" temple because Oksana was showing &…
- Monk in sunlight
- Posing for photographers
- Side temple
- Not every structure has been restored
- Taking a break
- Clouding up
- Light inside
- More cloudy
- Epic
- What a relief!
- Entrance to Angkor Wat proper
- The bridge across the moat to Angkor Wat
- Anatomically correct (more than you know)
- Phnom Bakhng We waited for the entire temple to clear before we climbed it ourselves
- Phnom Bakhng
- Steep steps
- If you were observant, you notice these guys all over the ground by your feet
- Approaching South Gate
- South Gate
- Driving through the South Gate of Angkor Megan Thomas
- Demons and moat, South Gate
- 800-year-old South Gate Guardians
- Demons of South Gate
- Filling in for a Guardian on coffee break
- Guardian of South Gate
- Elephants
- Can you make out the elephants here? This is, obviously, the Terrace of Elephants
- A Wallet of Tourists
- The Elephant Terrace (and maybe part of the Leper King Terrace, too)
- Looks new to me. More restoration work?
- Terrace of the Leper King
- I do NOT like the restoration work they’re doing here
- Entering Bayon
- My favorite site: Bayon
- Bayon has over 200 faces
- Walking in
- Faces on the wall
- Such a majestic temple
- Inside Bayon
- Faces of Bayon
- So many nooks are crannies
- Many more faces, four on every tower
- Bayon faces
- Half face
- Faces and the sky
- I’ll be sure to avoid and balustrades I see
- Looking up and out
- Dark passages
- At the end of the tunnel
- Faces above
- North, South, East, and West
- Bayon carvings
- Sunlight on the wall
- Bayon from within
- Carving
- Deep inside Bayon
- Bayon towers
- 800 years old? Such impressive stonework
- Oksana in Bayon
- Me in Bayon
- Bayon against the jungle
- Bayon panorama
- Possibility of Visit
- I liked the way the animal statue is highlighted against the shadows
- Cataloging parts of the structure
- "One might say this place is…" *puts on sunglasses* "…ruined."…
- Door to nowhere
- Snakes on a rock
- Crenelation shadows
- Looking down from Baphuon
- There’s a giant sideways face in there, if you can find it
- Older ruins, unvisited
- So much like Tomb Raider
- Part of the Preah Pithu Group
- Oksana exploring
- Among the ruins, such preservation
- Bayon from afar
- Bayon at sunset
- Sunrise, day 2
- Normally, I mock the people who have their cameras set to flash when their subjects a…
- Never quite saw the sun on the second morning, but the clouds were still kind of cool
- Primo spot I mounted a video camera lower down my tripod for a timelapse. Ended up r…
- You think your job sucks?
- Wish I could have adopted him
- Buddha
- Angkor Wat proper
- One of the gates. Victory, I think.
- Oksana in the tuk tuk with Mr. Boret
- Postcards for sale
- Climbing Takeo (I think)
- Banteay Kdei?
- These guys were all over the ruins
- Ta Prohm — my favorite site I went to watch Tomb Raider after we came here, to see i…
- Adventure Man
- Lights
- Ruins
- I like this shot of Oksana in Ta Prohm
- Roots
- We had to wait a long while to get this shot without tourists
- My favorite part of all of the Angkor complex were the roots of these amazing trees
- Girth
- It almost looks like they’re flowing
- We overheard a woman say, "Have to get a shot of this one. Last time I saw it w…
- Nap time
- Waiting for the customer to come back
- Lots of these temples had very, very long corridors
- A spot of sunlight
- Multifaceted
- Arch
- Tearing it down, or holding it up?
- Intrusions
- Oksana and I saw a figure here Do you?
- A path through the swamp
- Homeless
- Preah Khan?
- Gimme a break
- Craning my neck up
- What’s under there?
- Oh, no!
- Scale
- Or driver, Mr. Boret. $15/day, highly recommended!
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