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Beth and Michael in siem reap, march 2007

Text about the temples copied from the APSARA website (Authority for the Protection and Management of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap) if you want to know more...

Later that afternoon, we went to Ta Prohm: Again, Quoting ASPARA: "Known today as Ta Prohm or "Old Brahma", this monument was initially named "Rajavihara" meaning "royal monastery". In 1186 AD, Jayavarman VII consecrated several statues here, the most important of which was that of Prajnaparamita, the personification of the Perfection of Wisdom, a figure whom the King identified with his mother."

What makes the temple amazing, however, is the degree to which it has been taken over by the forest... these trees are what made us come to Cambodia in the first place...

* note these pictures are in reverse order... we came in from the other side... you can look at them backwards too, if you like.

Ta Prohm: the house next door to the temple	Ta Prohm: part of a library	Ta Prohm: library
Ta Prohm: distant view with setting sun	Ta Prohm: trees over the temple at dusk	Ta Prohm: trees over the temple at dusk
Ta Prohm: orange sunlight in splotches at the base of the tree	Ta Prohm: detail of trees dismantling wall	Ta Prohm: root along the ground
Ta Prohm: tree holding the wall	Ta Prohm: tree root detail	Ta Prohm: jumbled stone blocks in front of moss covered carved wall
Ta Prohm: trees on the wall	Ta Prohm: the last rays of the sun	Ta Prohm: statue in the all at dusk
Ta Prohm: hallway with collapsed roof	Ta Prohm: Beth and Michael in front of roots at sunset	Ta Prohm: sunset over roots and wall
Ta Prohm: roots detail	Ta Prohm: a massive root	Ta Prohm: sunlight on stautes
Ta Prohm: view of courtyard with trees	Ta Prohm: tree with colored shadow on the wall	Ta Prohm: a massive tree
Ta Prohm: detail of tree roots and wall	Ta Prohm: light through the treas near sunset	Ta Prohm: looking down a collapsed hallway
Ta Prohm: tree in the corner of a building	Ta Prohm: face peering through the roots, detail	Ta Prohm: face peering through the roots
Ta Prohm: look at all the growth on the edge of the roof near the top of the picture	Ta Prohm: the setting sun	Ta Prohm: love the sign
Ta Prohm: incredible roots surrounding the doorway	Ta Prohm: carvings lit by fantastiv light	Ta Prohm: tree in all its glory
Ta Prohm: tree rising amid towers	Ta Prohm: wooden walkway through doorway to tree roots	Ta Prohm: georgeous light in the ruins
Ta Prohm: Beth with the tree roots	Ta Prohm: tree roots detail	Ta Prohm: sunlight on a tower
Ta Prohm: sunlight illuminating the ruin trhough a doorway	Ta Prohm: late afternoon sun on trees and wall	Ta Prohm: trees grow among the ruins
Ta Prohm: wide view of trees overgrowing walls	Ta Prohm: wide view of trees overgrowing walls	Ta Prohm: wide view of trees overgrowing walls
Ta Prohm: tree gripping the wall	Ta Prohm: thin, young tree roots on a wall	Ta Prohm: incense for rough statues
Ta Prohm: looking up through the tower at the trees	Ta Prohm: rubble filled doorway	Ta Prohm: late afternoon sun on the ruins
Ta Prohm: beam of light through the trees	Ta Prohm: beam of light through the trees	Ta Prohm: alge or moss on the inside
Ta Prohm: carving detail...	Ta Prohm: carving detail over blocked doorway	Ta Prohm: tree looming over ruins
Ta Prohm: close to collapse	Ta Prohm: detail, rubble and carved doorway	Ta Prohm: Beth in narrow passageway
Ta Prohm: carving detail in the afternoon light	Ta Prohm: Tree with root running through hole in wall	Ta Prohm: "no entry danger" or the dangers of missing punctuation
Ta Prohm: looking through things at other things	Ta Prohm: carvings rubble and scaffolding	Ta Prohm: massive tree roots with carvings in the foreground
Ta Prohm: tree species identification "spung"	Ta Prohm: tree with carvings in the background	Ta Prohm: tree looming over ruins
Ta Prohm: carving detail in the afternoon light	Ta Prohm: braced doorway	Ta Prohm: Danger, no entry...
Ta Prohm: Beth and michael with tree roots	Ta Prohm: Beth and mivhael in front of tree, for scale	Ta Prohm: detail of the tree roots
Ta Prohm: tree overtaking building in a croner of the courtyard	Ta Prohm: wooden braces holding up a doorway	Ta Prohm: hallway with rubble
Ta Prohm: our guide provides perspective on the size of the trees	Ta Prohm: looking up at the tree on the wall	Ta Prohm: detail of carvings amid the rubble
Ta Prohm: trees, roots, rubble, and carving	Ta Prohm: tree with roots in rubble in front of wall	Ta Prohm: looking through a partially collapsed doorway blocked by rubble
Ta Prohm: statue in a beam of light amid rubble	Ta Prohm: large pile of rubblle	Ta Prohm: view along the wall
Ta Prohm: tree growing from the top of a building	Ta Prohm: Michael and Beth with tree roots	Ta Prohm: Michael and Beth with tree root
Ta Prohm: Tree root coming down over roof	Ta Prohm: Beth and Michael with tree that is tearing down the wall	Ta Prohm: Beth with doorway and tree roots
Ta Prohm: tree overgrowing wall with gateway	Ta Prohm: tree overgrowing wall	Ta Prohm: entry walkway being restored
Ta Prohm: walkway with blocks numbered for restoration and crane	Ta Prohm: trees growing in the walls	Ta Prohm: close up of tree roots worn shiny by foot traffic
Ta Prohm: walkway in with shiny roots	Ta Prohm: tower gateway	Ta Prohm: tower gateway from the side

Cambodia day 3 afternoon - Ta Prohm

Beth and Michael in siem reap, march 2007

Text about the temples copied from the APSARA website (Authority for the Protection and Management of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap) if you want to know more...