Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


December 27, 2011:Off to Preah Vihead Temple

How I got there

Altitude plot - to the top, about 600 m

Altitude Graph

Chhoy had the great idea to vist the Preah Vihear Temple - at the Thai border. So off we went at 6:30 - Chhoy, his sister, Nam (Sreyneth's sister) and me - with Chanty's cousin driving - Starting at Sunrise

dec 27 0562 sunrise water man

Nice reflection of a water man

dec 27 0563 sunrise man

Watering his garden

dec 27 0566 sunrise water man

After 3 hours we arrive at the Thai border - lots of Cambodian military - watching the hill on the Thai side of the border

dec 27 0676 camp

Then the temple - really quite interesting and quite large - and how they managed to get the stone to the top of the mountain???

dec 27 0735 temple military

Watching

dec 27 0738 watching

Watching and waiting

dec 27 0744 temple

The front door

dec 27 0754 temple

From the side

dec 27 0762 temple

The hill and temple on the Thai side of the border

dec 27 0771 thai hill

Not may visitors so we had free run of the place - along with the military

dec 27 0790 temple view

Chhoy's sister, Chhoy and Nam

dec 27 0828 chhoy nam sister

Through the doors

dec 27 0841 door supports

Looking down toward Thailand

dec 27 0847 temple walk

Brown stone temple

dec 27 0853 brown stone temple

Looking through doors

dec 27 0863 doors

Moor doors - note, no arches - anywhere - staggered stone placement only

dec 27 0867 temple shadows

Not an arch

dec 27 0873 temple carving

Stone carving

dec 27 0881 temple carving

What used to be

dec 27 0890 framed structure

Looking through doors

dec 27 0894 temple doors

Looking through doors

dec 27 0904 doors

The mid level temple

dec 27 0907 temple view

Chhoy, Nam and Chhoy's sister

dec 27 0913 chhoy nam sister

Looking down the walkway between level 1 and level 2 temples

dec 27 0922 temple walkway

Thailand

dec 27 0928 thailand

Tree growing from the temple rocks

dec 27 0939 temple tree

Thailand

dec 27 0950 thailand

Temple structures and carvings

dec 27 0959 temple view

ANother view

dec 27 0965 temple grounds

And another view

dec 27 0968 preah vihear temple

Nam

dec 27 0971 nam

Temple

dec 27 0974 temple

Nam

dec 27 0976 nam

Walk between level 2 and level 3 (top) temples

dec 27 0980 temple overview

Wall

dec 27 0986 temple wall

Temple structures

dec 27 0989 temple

Through the door

dec 27 0995 temple door

Through doors

dec 27 1000 doors

Through a window

dec 27 1002 temple window

Looking through doors

dec 27 1009 through doors

Through a window

dec 27 1021 window

Wall fragment

dec 27 1026 wall fragment

Window structure

dec 27 1029 wall

Shadows

dec 27 1035 shadows

Without a roof

dec 27 1039 temple ruins

More of the same

dec 27 1043 inside temple

Doors

dec 27 1047 diagonal shadow

Looking out

dec 27 1056 temple

A pile of rocks

dec 27 1066 temple rubble

Temple worship place

dec 27 1076 inner sancturary

Inside

dec 27 1079 inner sancturary

Monk

dec 27 1082 monk doors

Worship center

dec 27 1084 worship center

Our team

dec 27 1088 monk

Windows

dec 27 1091 windows

Hall with windows

dec 27 1095 inside

Temple top

dec 27 1106 temple top

Chhoy'a sister

dec 27 1109 chhoy sister

A temple

dec 27 1112 temple

Nam

dec 27 1118 nam

Chhoy - with Thailand / Laos in the background

dec 27 1130 chhoy

Another try

dec 27 1133 chhoy

Laos (mountains)

dec 27 1139 lao

Looking through doors

dec 27 1145 doors

Walking down - passing a temple

dec 27 1147 temple

Structures

dec 27 1151 temple side

An overview of the temple complex - I can imagine how busy and colorful this place must have been 1000 years ago

dec 27 1157 temple

A closer view

dec 27 1163 preah vihear temple

What are all the holes for?

dec 27 1167 temple fragment

More doors

dec 27 1168 temple

Temple wall

dec 27 1175 temple wall

Thai temple on the distant hill - with Thai flag

dec 27 1194 thai temple

Cambodian flag

dec 27 1203 flags

Along the way - a petro stand - served in 2 liter bottles - not the usual 1 L Johnnie Walker bottle

Passing through Angkor Wat - late afternoon sun on the temples

dec 27 1249 angkor wat temple

Another view

dec 27 1262 angkor temple

Then a fast walk to the rice fields behind Chhoy's home to watch the sunset

dec 27 1358 sunset reflection

The sun

dec 27 1424 sunset

Evening walking and shadow

dec 27 1555 sunset walker

Another view

dec 27 1569 sunset walkers

Four palms

dec 27 1591 3 palms

Cows coming home

dec 27 1604 cows going home

Cows going home

dec 27 1620 cows going home

Sunset colors

dec 27 1635 palm colors

Sunset silhouettes

dec 27 1649 evening colors

Sojourn night sign on Treak Village Road

dec 27 1654 sojourn night sign

Moon

dec 27 1673 moon

Moon and venus

dec 27 1677 moon venus

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