TA PHROM temple in Angkor
(and Ta Keo Temple )
Ta Phrom Temple, One of the most
romantic temples of Angkor's site, where the nature resumed its
rights and disrupted the work of the men. A magic place which
was built in 1186, this convent Buddhist was the most gigantic
of Angkor's site. The Conservation of Angkor saved the main monuments,
but didn't clean' it. All the trees and the roots which had invaded
and left the rights for the jungle, such as found him by the
first discoverers. Roots look like snakes which disrupt and waste
statues and walls, and huge trees beat the heads of stuppas.
A forest which doesn't want to let escape his gods and which
destroys them or protects them.... A place loaded with emotion
and poetry for the meditation. A magic temple in the sunset.
12000 persons lived in the surrounding wall of the " Convent
of King " 8 centuries previously, and his construction was
ended at the beginning of the XIIIth century. |
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Ta Phrom temple, a place loaded
with emotion and poetry |
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snakes which distort
and devour statues and walls |
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Main archeoligical places in
Cambodia
TA KEO (Angko site)
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Built between 968 and 1001, this
temple of more than 50 m of height is the first one of Angkor,
built completely for Wills. The decorations were never finished
because carving in wills was very hard. This temple is typical
Angkor's " temples-mountains ". |
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