A few pictures from our visit to Cambodia. We only visited Siem Reap because we wanted to explore Angkor Wat, one of the seven wonders of the world, and that it certainly is. Since we were there in the low season for tourists, we were mobbed nearly everywhere to the point where we could not even exit our vehicle at times.

Archway carving detail at Angkor Wat.

Angkor Wat exterior. It is a massive structure. Most tours only stop for a little more than an hour, but we managed to stay for nearly five hours before we decided we needed to move on.

Faces on the towers of the Angkor Thom temple known as Bayon. There are 216 of the large faces on the exterior.

Trees taking over Ta Prohm. The person in the back is there for perspective. This is how most of the temples of Angkor were when the French 'rediscovered' them in the early 1900's. Ta Prohm was also used as a filming location for the Tomb Raider film.

The pinkish stone of Banteay Srei. It is considered by many to be a crown jewel of Angkorian art because of how much of the carving has survived almost 1100 years. It is sometimes called the Citadel of Women, partly for the color and partly because it is built to a smaller scale. Gabe and I would have to crawl to get inside (if you were allowed to do so that is).