Angkor Wat - Inside of Angkor Wat

Angkor Wat was built symmetrically like a fortress. Out most liner of walls was far away from the temple, it kept the temple within with a lake in front of it at one side. You can enter the temple from east or west. We entered from the west side which has no lake in front but a campus like lawn area where it was huge piece of land you can see locals and tourists walking around; bloom over the sky… Once you enter the temple, you can see carvings up close everywhere on the outside of the wall that built the temple. Notice those carvings on top of each door are especially complicated. Once you enter the temple, the tour guy will take you to those huge walls down in the Corridors that was filled with carvings which gives detailed records of stories after stories and stories…. Walk around the corridors, some corridors are filled with Buddha sculptures, some of them without heads since they were built long long time ago. Some where there, you can see a monk giving blessing to people who pay him a small fee. If you want to go farther into the temple (center of the temple and get close to the towers), you are required to wait in line to a single entrance which is a door above a set of stair approximately 30 – 40 feet high. You will wait in a long line under blazing sun and heart with humidity till you reach the bottom of that stairs where you will receive a badge from tourist from other half side of the stair who just came down. Once it was your turn, you will then claim up on the right side of the stairs to reach the entrance door. Once you got on top, you get to enter the corridors that connects to all towers and it goes all around. From there, you can have the opportunity to see the towers up close and then walking around and look outside through the window and get a glimpse of the temple (section of it) below you from above. In the body of each tower lays a Buddha. A gate separates the Buddha from outside people. You can knee outside the gate to face the Buddha and have your prayer. Interestingly, there are many statues of lions set in front of each door of the temple and each of them has perfectly shaped butt that is more beautiful than Kim Kardashian’s butt. However, they do not have tail. I forgot the story why they lost their tail. Also noticeably as popular as those lions at the front the door, there are also sculptures of cobras, which are just exotic and beautiful.

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