On our first day of touring the Angkor Wat area we saw 5 temples. I took so many pictures that to do them justice, I am only going to do one temple a day with very little writing and mostly pictures.
The Jungle Temple (Ta Prohm) was the first one we went to. It's the temple that was used for some scenes in filming "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider."
Our guide was Mr. Neak. He has been a tour guide for 14 years. He grew up during the early Khmer Rouge who were so bad that the Viet Kong came into Cambodia to save the people. Awful. I won't go into details here. But he had an interesting past. One opportunity he had been given was that he was one of the tour guides who went along with the National Geographic Society when they went to Cambodia in 1998 to photograph Angkor Wat. So he learned some amazing picture points and showed them to us. As a result we got some really fun pictures. We had, all told, 4 cameras and 3 iphones from which we got pictures. Between all of us we took over 3,000 from our whole trip. So with out further ado, here is the Jungle Temple.
so cool!
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