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Sarah's shadow

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We hired Mr. Soth to be our guide.  He drove us around in his tuk-tuk.

  

On our way into the interior of Angkor Tom.

  

Inside Angkor Tom, the monkeys beg for food.

  

Matt and Sarah at Disneyland Cambodia.

  

The Bayon is the temple at the center of Angkor Tom.  It has about a kabillion stone copies of this one guy's face.

  

One of the outbuilding of the Bayon.  Steep, scary climbing.

  

The Bayon is a kind of maze of stairs and stone rooms.  Some of the interior carving is really well preserved.

  

How many faces can you count?

  

Matt, hanging with some bas-relief dancing ladies.

The Cambodians have tried to recreate the traditional dances from friezes like this one.  Or else, the dancing is just one more tourist gimmick for starving natives.

  

More faces

  

More faces.

  

Sarah, chillin in a doorway.

  

Sarah, same spot, from the reverse angle.

  

Suzy, Matt, and a choice few carved ladies.

  

Parts of the Bayon are still completely unrecovered.

  

But there's still cool detail work in the piles of rock.

  

Statues of the Buddha, no matter how bady damaged, get put back together for small shrines.

  

Away from the Bayon, on the outskirts of The Baphuon.

Suzy and Sarah are not interested in posing.

  

"Can't we go over there?"

  

Yep.

  

Sarah and Matt are proud sponsors of Diet Coke.

  

The Elephant Terrace.  All of these columns were carved to look like elephant heads, with their trunks making the column.

Once you know what you're looking for, the elephant head shape is evident.

  

Wider shot, Elephant Terrace.

  

Angkor Tom, north gate.

  

If you look close, Sarah is in this shot of the Leper King Temple.

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