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...

That afternoon, we wrangled enty into the  Conservatory d'Ankor where they're stockpiling artifiacts for a beautiful new museum... they wouldn't let me take pictures on the inside, which is very sad, because the have some beautiful ruined wooden buddha's  covered in gold and eaten by termites that were a stunning visual.

  • Conservatory d'Ankor: statue with parasol
  • Conservatory d'Ankor: mostly intact lion
  • Conservatory d'Ankor Naga
  • Conservatory d'Ankor:many snake heads
  • Conservatory d'Ankor: carving of a hindu priest (stay tuned for more on him later)
  • Conservatory d'Ankor: intact carvings
  • Conservatory d'Ankor: broken lion with cicadia on its snout
  • Conservatory d'Ankor: close up of snout and cicaida
  • Conservatory d'Ankor: elephant with it's missing bit's re-created
  • Conservatory d'Ankor preserved carving detail
  • Conservatory d'Ankor: broken statue
  • Conservatory d'Ankor: carving detail
  • Conservatory d'Ankor: row of heads
  • Conservatory d'Ankor: smiling snakes
  • Conservatory d'Ankor: collection of carvings removed from temples
  • Conservatory d'Ankor collection of heads
  • Conservatory d'Ankor: using a mold to create many heads to replace the missing ones
  • Conservatory d'Ankor: a wooden carving