Cambodia Travel with cheap bus tickets to Angkor
Visitors to Angkor should also make a boat trip
The area around (there are many more temples, monuments, and palaces) including the beautiful scenic barays which were the water storage for this part of the Khmer State until hundreds of years ago, it's worth a visit.
Cambodia has plenty of water but not for the whole year because of the seasonal monsoon weather.
That is the reason why the
old Khmer Kings
had the ponds and channels constructed. It's an amazing architecture because there were no much scientific data available at the time. When touring Angkor plan a trip with the boat into your itinerary it's a unique experience, just book it in the hotel or one of the travel agents at the old market there plenty of them around
pub street
which is also open at night.
Around the Takeo Temple Mountain
The location is between Angkor Wat & Thom mostly a huge pile of ruins where some groups from all around the world try their luck to restore walls and more.
The Takeo Temple Mountain
is one of the larger structurs and there is a lot to do indeed. But there are always amteurs as a Indian crew some time ago who used a wrong solution to clean a bas-relief they destroyed it instaed.
The monumental Takeo Temple Mountain was one of the first giant constructions entirely made from sandstone, a massive temple which was not even half finished.
One of the main reason why so many unfinished monuments are around was the very long building period. Some rulers started something but died after some decade and next one didn't like it and abandoned the construction, after a while the jungle took it back.
The location is at the West edge of the East Baray, it was constructed under Jayavarman V who followed his father Rajendravarman II, and he also was a great temple builder.