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Old 16-09-2007, 05:06 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Bas-reliefs
This photo gives a good idea of the size and length of the walls that carry the bas-reliefs. Incredibly in a lot of sections the roof area carry bas-relief's.
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Old 16-09-2007, 05:16 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Many statue's of the Buddha are located in Angkor Wat.
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Old 16-09-2007, 05:21 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Brings back memories mate, I was there in 95 with the X!!!!. We had some great photos of the temples, monks etc amongst the ruiens, meditating ,incense and lotus flowers and absolutley no tourists. The bitch took them all when I left. Yeh I left for greener pastures. Must make the effort and take the new wife. It certainly is a magic place and she'd love it.
JEsuz these G&T's are a good way to spend a Sunday, but good effort.
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Old 16-09-2007, 05:22 PM   #24 (permalink)
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The buddhas
Many Buddha statues have been damaged or stolen and are now in private collectors gallery's through out the world. Cambodia is trying to recover these statues.
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Looking through the out door to the inner temples
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Nice there.

Sure is mate, and ill go back soon to complete my photos.

These ones only scratch the surface.
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We went to some out of the way temples and there was buddha images of all sizes lying around on the ground and absolutley no people. Easy pickings for the unscruptulus. But the blatent stelling of the heads as at the causeway into the Bayon temple in which they would have had to use croncrete cutting saws amazed me. Must have been the Pol Pot era and soliders to be able to get away with it.
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The scale of things here.
Check out the steps. Gives you an idea of the size of the walls and monuments. All of the Angkor Wat complex and surrounding monuments are made of sand stone which was mined 50 kl'm away.
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Expect to do a shite load a climbing.
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Did you go to Banteay Srei when you were there? It's a bit further out than the main temples, takes about an hour to get there by tuk tuk. Anyway, it has the most impressive, intricate carvings of all the temples, such as these examples:











Well worth the extra effort to get out there, the journey offers some very spectacular scenery on the way too.
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All of the Angkor Wat complex and surrounding monuments are made of sand stone which was mined 50 kl'm away.
There's also quite a bit of laterite as can be seen in your photos of Ta Phrom.

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The climb
The climb is tragic and more than one tourist has fallen to there death. Makes one wonder how they built this 600 years ago by hand.
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^^^

Yes mate, we did go there as well and you are right about the drive as we had to pay our man an extra sling to get us there.

Got some piccys coming up later.

By the way, yours are brilliant and a nice piece of photography there.

adds to this thread.

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All of the Angkor Wat complex and surrounding monuments are made of sand stone which was mined 50 kl'm away.
There's also quite a bit of laterite as can be seen in your photos of Ta Phrom.

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laterite = noun : A reddish clayey topsoil, hard when dry, found in tropical areas , sometimes used to build roads and temples, common name = sandstone.

latin = brick

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I don't know what your source is, but laterite is very different from sandstone. Laterite is a very coarse grained stone while sandstone is very fine grained. Sandstone is a sedimentary rock while laterite is formed by the weathering of igneous rock.

Here's a couple of photos of laterite:
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Inside Angkor Wat. Note the climbers
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I don't know what your source is, but laterite is very different from sandstone. Laterite is a very coarse grained stone while sandstone is very fine grained. Sandstone is a sedimentary rock while laterite is formed by the weathering of igneous rock.

Here's a couple of photos of laterite:

I got the sandstone quote from a reference, the meaning of laterite from my thesaurus and added it together.

I believe you are correct and the reference was wrong.

Thanks for that, as i learn't something.

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