Angkor Wat. Part 2.

After our mid day break we returned to the City of Temples to explore the biggest temple on the site, Angkor Wat.  We arrived just in time for a 30 minute monsoon so we took shelter in the temples outer wall and learned all about the Khmer Rouge battles that took place here in the 1970's.  Also learned a lot of crazy facts about the place.  For example:  The stone used to build this place was quarried 50 kilometers away, and no one knows how they got it here.  The temple was built on a swamp and the only thing keeping the whole structure from crumbling is the massive moat that keeps the ground saturated, this moat was hand dug and took longer to build than the actual temple.  All the carvings used to be covered in gold.  This place really was pretty incredible.  I had a lot of fun there.

 

 

 

 

Khmer Rouge bullet holes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Swimming pool?