Banteay Srei

This was a pretty small temple.

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The statues weren’t the highlight.

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There were a bit different though which was nice.

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The highlight was that they used a very soft sandstone in the building.

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It was also surrounded by a moat filled with lillipads.

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The roofs were also like Angkor Wat.

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The soft sandstone allowed for really complex carvings.

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The carvings were really well preserved and defined.

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But the stone is also quite soft so they have the temple roped off.

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So this is as close as we could get.

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Which is really too bad because there were monkeys guarding this temple.

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