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DAY 13 SIEM REAP Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch Optional for early risers: In the morning you eyes. Soon, another face is made out, and may wish to wake up early and set out for another, and still yet another, until they are all Angkor Wat, in front of the water lily pond, around - silent, heavy, and impressive, staring enjoying the temple’s reflection and the sunrise from a primitive remote past. over the complex. Then, back to the hotel for breakfast. Afterwards travel outside the city to explore the picturesque Ta Prohm Temple. This morning visit the impressive Angkor Thom (which means Great City). Angkor Thom is the Ta Prohm was built by Jayavarman VII as a cultural home of the Khmer (Cambodian) people shrine for his mother and as a monastery and one of the ancient wonders of the world. devoted to its upkeep. A stele referred to the This vast network of Wats (temples) dating back temple as a monument "whose limbs are to the 7th century is the center of some of the adorned with gold and resplendent with gems". most important structures, statues, and carvings The magnificent roots of a tree pushing produced in the name of the Buddhist and between the huge stone blocks of the temple Hindu religions. The Great City covers an area of have been left that way intentionally, at the four square miles. The total length of the wall suggestion of French art conservators Bernard surrounding the city is 7.5 miles. Incorporated Groslier and George Coedes, who devoted into the wall are a number of earlier buildings: years to the understanding and preservation of Baphuon and Phimeanakas. The city is the treasures at Angkor. The sight of the tree's dominated by a mania for colossal size, powerful embrace of the stone evokes feelings a punctuated with enormous numbers of towers visitor will very likely remember forever. and reliefs. Overnight: Park Hyatt Siem Reap – Park View The Bayon is an awesome sight. At first glance, Room the complex seems a shapeless mass of stone. Suddenly, further scrutiny reveals a face, enigmatic and silent, watching with half-closed