Angkor Wat Photos

Okay, there's going to be a lot of photos.  Sorry, but they are cool.  There are others that are fantastic that I didn't include.  Scroll through slowly if you want to see each photo, or scroll quickly if you want to get to the next post.

Turns out there are 40+ pictures here.  As Bun would say, "Oh my Buddha!"  As I would say, OMB!"

Without question, Carol took

the best selfie of the trip.

Thank goodness for the

wooden stairs.  Otherwise

I'd be dead given how

steep AND small the

stone stairs are.

Cool hallway.

Pat looks confused.

Glen looks overweight.

Both of us in our 

normal state.

Pat and Terri coming down

the scary stairs of death.

Going up was easier.

One of the towers up on top.

And another tower.

Carol and Pat.

The wall carving behind us served as

the inspiration for "Dancing Queen."

A monk and a courtyard.

A congregation of monks.

Group pic on our way out.

The towers nicely framed.

Gotta love the need for signs in the

bathrooms on how to properly

use a toilet.

This shot was used for the cover

of our 1960s folk album.

Ron, guiding.

Love this hallway.

"So rock me momma like a wagon wheel,

Rock me momma anyway you feel,

Hey, momma rock me."

Evidence has been uncovered that

this carving inspired the song

"War, War, what it is good for, 

absolutely nothing, say it again."

(Editor: Is everything a 60s, 70s, or 80s

song lyric with you?  Writer: Not

everything!  Almost everything.)

Click on this pic to get

a better look at the

horse in battle.

The hounds of hell?

I knew it!  Proof that the Planet

of the Apes actually happened!

After my high school graduation I went

to Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ.

"Her name was Lola,

she was a showgirl."

Not sure of the purpose of these, but

there are many scattered around

the temple walls.  And they are cool.

Apsara Dancers, a long-standing

(long-dancing?) traditional

Cambodian artform.

(And, no, I'm not making that

up -- Google it if you don't trust

me.  Btw, I don't blame you

if you don't trust me!)

Buddhas with cloths.  The

cloths aren't ancient, just

put on every so often.

One of the outbuildings of the temple.

The discovery of an ancient duster by me,

an amateur archeologist  rocked the

historians, until they carbon-dated the

duster and found it was from 2023.

And there went my shot at glory!

Buildings and jungle.

My instructions were

simple: "Stand, Pat."

Terri and Pat.

Neil Diamond's first draft of

the lyrics are little known:

"I'll be what I am, solitary

monk, solitary monk,"

but when the rest of the song

was about cheating,

Diamond rewrote the chorus

as "solitary man."  And

the rest is history.

Orange you glad I took a bunch of

photos of monks at Angkor Wat?

It's amazing how similar each carving is.

A battle of Siamese crocodiles,

now an endangered species.

Goliath showed up here

to help his friends.

Leaving Angkor Wat.