I will tell you about an Angkore, which is from Siem Ripa to hand. Input ticket with a photo (they are doing right there, at the entrance!), Which is issued on the hands, should be preserved as Zenitsa Oka, because it checks the protection at the entrance to each temple. Not only check, guys, and also merge the picture with your face, so no fraud here will not hide. I am talking about the fraud because the cost of the entrance is $ 20 - we did not expect such an ambush, because I was faced with a similar incredible price. Previously, the palm of the championship in our practice was holding the Taj Mahal in Agra (about $ 15). By the way, the same price ($ 20) and when visiting Lake Tonlesiap. Well, do you know ... with a total poverty, when a person is able to live almost a week on a dollar, the prices of similar visits to the world famous European Museum are closed here? However, however ...
Angkor - the heart and soul of the Khmer people. It is a symbol of prosperity of Khmer civilization and almost the most majestic cult facilities in the world. To this day, Angkor reached the city of the temple, not a city-settlement, because about 200 unique temples and a single dwelling are located on the territory of the archaeological zone, which is quite explained: residential buildings were erected from wood and palm leaves, which were successfully rotated under conditions Murderous moisture, and the cult buildings were made from the stone, because the gods lived in the temples. Of course, I did not even see half of them, for I was still limited in time, but I could well tell you about four, perhaps the most prominent and sensible in tourist circles. I will start my story with Angkor Wat - the giant Hindu temple complex dedicated to Vishnu, one of the three supreme gods of Hinduism, because at that time Hinduism prevailed on the territory of the Khmer Empire. Angkor Wat is one of the largest ever created religious structures and one of the most important archaeological monuments of the world. It surrounds the ditch filled with water, 190 m wide and total length (around the circumference) 5.6 km. Angkor Wat contains five dwarus towers; The central tower is raised at 65 m above the surface of the Earth (42 m above the sanctuary). The temple is decorated with two thousand square meters of magnificent stone thread. Angkor Wat is a kind of square island, surrounded by a moat with water. The stone bridge is laid through the moat. Next comes the coastal strip to the district temple wall. The passage in the wall is made in the form of a gopura, passing through which you fall into the territory of the temple. But to the actual temple you still cut and sawing on a 350-meter stone road (platform) with a balustrade in the form of a seminar snake, decorated accordingly, for it also is an important element of Khmer architecture called Naga Bridge.
Angkor Wat has been preserved much better than many other facilities of the ancient Angcourt, which is explained by the fact that even after the launch of these places and legends, Buddhist monks lived in Angkor-Wath, and now they live.
Bayon is the second largest (and largest) the temple that is near Angkor Wata. Bayon is a mystical temple-mountain, petrified fiction, otherwise I can not call. As a result of a long study and study, Bayon was classified as a Buddhist sanctuary. Like Angkor Wat, Bayon has a square at the base, but smaller. At first, it seems that Bayon is a rock created by nature itself, but as eye is addicted to the eye, gigantic people who fascinate with their unusually discrepanant in this jumble and seem to be indifferent from height to our mortar world. At the two-meters, a mysterious Cambodian smile was frozen on the whole world: all four mental states - compassion, sorrow, joy and calm - simultaneously read on each face. And wherever you are, a steady obsessive impression is created that they are looking at you.
That Keo is another temple-mountain, the construction of which was started at the end of the 15th century, but never was completed. The Keo is considered the very first mountain temple, completely built from sandstone. In principle, the construction scheme is the same as the two temples described by me: five towers, stepped pyramid, gopura, ditching with water and dam. Only by now it remains alive very little, most of the unfinished turned out to be powerless before on on-line. Plus, the restoration of Angkor Wat is held by the Germans and the French, and the Chinese experts will revive the Chinese experts to life, which did not slow down to affect the quality of the works. Of course, there is no RVA, nor the dams, but the hand-held gopuras and galleries are not a very aesthetic sticking of the stones. From afar, the temple looks impressive and well-preserved, but near - alas and ah, the area of recovery work is extremely large.
That Prom / Ta Phrom is the same temple that will not leave indifferent a single tourist. After the shooting of individual scenes of the film "Lara Croft: Tomb Rank" Local Residents began to call the temple of Angelina Jolie / Temple Lara Croft. Unlike Angkor Vata, the monks did not break into that promise, and the temple was given to the jungle of the jungle in the literal sense of the word. The monstrous giant plants wrapped up all the buildings, sprouted through stones, which in the aggregate creates a crazy, unreal picture of a merciless battle between the gods and nature. Trees-spruits, lianas, rains, zippers, wild animals, moss, the scorching sun and night coolness attacked the temple over several centuries. The roots and trunks of the insane powerful trees climbed on the walls and deeply penetrated the cracks between the stones. They pulled the mystical cobweb window and doorways, squeezed the roofs and raised the floor, aggressively rotating into the most soul of each temple, each chapel of the complex. But Ta-Prom did not collapse under the onslaught of the devilish merciless flora: the jungle and the temple intertwined into one thing, and nothing now is no longer disconnected. The natural phenomenon, which we see now, is not styling the prom with the face of the earth, did not destroy him, but on the contrary, suddenly breathed a new life into him.
