Absolutely Naga'd

Our first of three dasys 'doing the Temples' yesterday. We went by bike, rode about 15 miles, were out touristing throughout the middle of a blistering day, and thoroughly exhausted ourselves.

The Temples beggar belief. This is not like seeing Chartres or Canterbury - it's like coming into a jungle clearing and discovering the entire city of Rome. Some of the individual temple enclosures are measured in square km, and it's impossible to keep track of the number of separate or interconnected sites.

The face in this pic is one of four giant Buddha of Compassion faces on the south gate of Angkor Thom. We passed Angkor Wat in the distance and plan to see it properly tomorrow (Wednesday).

A Naga, by the way, is a seven-headed Cobra-god who protects the Buddha, Vishnu, or others. We have seen several miles of Nagas.

I have, I think, solved the out-of-order problem in the Web folder, so if you double-click the Slideshow you should get an ordered set of (mostly) captioned photos.