Angkor: the role of nature

(Preah Kahn)

"Everywhere around you, you see Nature in its dual role of destroyer and consoler, strangling on the one hand, and healing on the other; no sooner splitting the carved stones asunder than she dresses their wounds with cool, velvety mosses, and binds them with her most delicate tendrils; a conflict of moods so contradictory and feminine as to prove once more - if proof were needed - how well 'Dame' Nature merits her feminine title." (H W Ponder, 1936)

I adored the interplay of nature and temples at Angkor. These pictures hopefully portray to you, some of the incrediable beauty that I felt so lucky to see.


(Preah Kahn)


(Preah Palilay)


(Ta Prohm)