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I feel a bit like a British explorer, surrounded by my cadre of Cambodians at $18 a day. They drive me around, carry my tripod, bring me water when I am thirsty, and seem anxious for me to colonize the area. A member of my cadre woke me up early this morning at 5 AM.
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Thanks... and I'll be out searching the ruins all day... trying to find interesting things and beautiful things for y'all! :)
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I made it to the heart of Ta Prohm, an undisturbed Bayon ruin out the outskirts of Angkor Wat. It was late in the day and there was a break in the afternoon summer showers.
To me, the best thing about these temples and ruins is that you can go anywhere, high or low, safe or not. There are hundreds of tiny nooks, old broken stone doors, lost hallways, and mysterious carvings peeking out of the overgrowth. There are no tort-related legal signs barring you from going anywhere... explorer beware. Besides, if you got injured, the jungle and insects would eat you alive before the night was over.
As soon as I walked into Ta Prohm, the thunder started rumbling around and dappled clouds rolled in. The thunder was extra eerie and chest-thumping inside all the mossy and vegetated old tombs. The rain started and stopped several times, so I would take refuge in crumbling crypts and hallways until the rain let up. I took some wrong turns, but I eventually ended up here with a break in the storm. I popped out with the 10 mm get this shot.
The temple was built in 1181 AD and was the home to 18 high priests, 615 dancers, and 12,500 people. I don't know why the dancer stats are so important, but there you go.
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Here we are at the heart of a wonder of the world (in my book).
I sat in the corner of the temple for a long time, just chilling out and listening to my ipod. Dozens of monks from all over Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Tibet, and places even further away came streaming through the temple complex to meditate.
The monks from the local wats are allowed to choose from six different color robes, and you can see two of them below.
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I found her after taking a few wayward turns in some confusing corridors in the main temple of Angkor Wat. She was a Buddhist bolt, but lighting incense at the foot of a statue of Shiva, the Hindu god. It turns out that she, and others like her, are from an interesting sect that bridges two of the big religions. I always enjoy talking to people about this sort of thing. It doesn't really bother me one way or another, but I just find all the thought processes to be interesting.
She's one of the billions of people alive (and possibly re-alive) that draws into the splinters of the original Vedic Brahminism. She didn't speak a lot of English, so there were a few pieces missing in our conversation, but I filled them in later after talking to many other monks and worshipers throughout the complex.
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I spent the entire day from with Sokhoun, a Theravada Buddhist monk and now a good friend (and email buddy!). It's a long story I will tell later.
But at the end of the day, we went into Angkor Wat for sunset. The guards made everyone else leave, but Sokhoun and I went around the backside of temple to watch the sunset by ourselves. The local security guards lets the monks do whatever they want, of course.
As we were walking around the temple grounds, we came across this old library just as the sun was dipping below the evening storm clouds.
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