If I had worried about seeing too many pictures of everyone else's trip to Angkor it was wasted concern. We finally got into the park yesterday and visited our first temples: the Bayon, which was the state temple of Jayavarman VII who ruled from around 1181 to 1220, Baphoun, whose 300,000 stones were carefully dismantled for reconstruction (it was in ruins) in the 1960s, each stone being carefully documented so that it could be reassembled...at least until the unspeakably rotten humans of the Khmer Rouge came along and burned all of the associated paperwork leaving restorers with a 300,000 piece jigsaw puzzle that now has no box cover; Terrace of the Leper King, a lovely bas relief hallway in the outer city wall, the foundation and well that were the King's palace (which was built from
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