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DAILY PHOTO: Rubble & Jungle, Angkor
DAILY PHOTO: Towers of Prasat Suor Prat from the Elephant Terraces
DAILY PHOTO: Angkor Thom from the Elephant Terrace
Angkor Photos, Part 4
This is the fourth and final installment of pictures from my October 2012 visit to Angkor in Cambodia.
These are all from the Bayon, a large temple in Angkor Thom. Unlike many of the sites that were originally Hindu and were later modified to meet the needs of Buddhist successors, this was built as a Mahayana temple — though later Hindu and Theravada Buddhist leaders made changes.
The Bayon is sometimes called the temple of a thousand faces. The reason will be clear.