On to the monuments
The main road traffic in Siem Reap is like a medium level town in India. People are on bicycles, motorcycles, and three-wheelers. Cars...
Shiva and Vishnu
I am sitting in front of five Shiva shrines which might have been a place of utter importance a thousand years ago. Shiva is an...
Bayon (Brahma!)
One notices that the stones are stacked one over the other and there is no grout or mortar. There is also no iron rod or plate...
Bayon Thom (Brahmadham!)
Mr Kushal drove me to an area which looked like a Restaurants' Row. There were about a dozen food houses of various sizes tucked inside...
Baphuon
The Cool Inn was a newly constructed building. So the fittings and the features were expected to be conforming to the current usage. ...
Preh Khan (prekshA!)
Mr Kushal made plans for me. How much time I might spend at a site was my option. The drivers of three-wheelers parked their vehicles...
Village lunch
The eating place is an open air stall about two hundred foot long and thirty foott wide covered with a tent-like roof supported by poles....
Palace Temple
Archaeology is a science to study old objects in order to determine history. Most archaeology has been dealing with human skeletons and...
Angkor Wat
Mornings come early in the tropics. Because of the uniformity of day and night, the earth-bound creatures follow a sunlight-oriented...
Studying inscriptions
Writing like music is an art. It is a process of recording our speech for possible future use. It is believed to have developed through...
