Go Back To Main Site :

Part 3 : Ang Kor, Cambodia, Temple Ta Prohm


Cho's voyages in Cambodia continued... back in the year 2000
Last Week's Issue talks of Ta Prohm's history 

story tour boat Mekong Tonle Phnom Penh architect temple mountain city Hindu stupa Angkor Wat galleried bas-reliefs Thom Bayon head Baphuon Preah Khan Ta Prohm Banteay Srei Archaeo Siem Reap Jayavarman Buddh Mahayana Theravada Cambodia art history stone bronze wood statue sculpt south east Asia culture Bangkok travel Thailand voyage articles author art journal magazine museum expo gallery exhibit crafts  photo graph show Korea Taiwan Nepal Sri Lanka India Thailand Burma Myanmar Bangladesh Laos Viet Nam Tibet Europe France French China  Japan Book  news  Singapore Bhutan malaysia Mongolia bodhisattva  Prajnaparamita Tara Zen Chan Tiantai Pure Land  Akasagarbha Avalokitesvara Dharma Maitreya  Sanskrit Khmer Cham Suryavarman Vishnu 






These photo are like a time-capsule ... they were taken with an Advantix Camera ... and combined with the native colors, hence the grainy sepia quality


remember Advantix Cameras?!  When you thought you were taking wide-angle photo
and all you were getting was a truncated elongated version of a normal photo, with LESS information?!

















scroll right for entire picture>> 









 Peter, with the ever-patient driver, on the right, who took us around the temple grounds for four days; and a hotel staff member, on the left

the main entrance of Ta Prohm