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In the morning, your tour guide will be waiting for you in the lobby of your hotel.
Built in the early 12th century under Suryavarman II, you will visit Angkor Wat in the morning. A masterpiece of Khmer architecture and probably the most fantastic temple complex in the world of incredible scale. Inside the temple you will find beautifully designed walls and carvings depicting Hindu mythology. Angkor is also known for its almost 2000 carved Apsaras "heavenly dancers", which can be seen throughout the temple and no two are alike. Nowadays, Angkor Wat adorns the Cambodian national flag and symbolises the soul of the Khmer people.
In the afternoon, visit the temples of Ta Prohm. The temple, which is embedded in plank roots, looks almost exactly the same today as it did when it was discovered in the middle of the 19th century. Ta Prohm was built between the late 12th and early 13th centuries. Due to its location, it is largely overgrown by jungle plants and vines, and as a result some parts of the temple have crumbled to the foundations. This makes the "Tomb Raider Temple" one of the most picturesque and unforgettable of the Angkor temples.
You will then visit Angkor Thom. The "Great Capital" was built at the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century as the new capital of the Angkor Empire. Numerous buildings of the huge temple complex have been preserved to this day. You start your tour at the South Gate and its massive statues. The tour through the UNESCO World Heritage Site takes you to numerous temples that stood here before the square complex was built. The impressive historical monuments on your route today include the imposing main temple Bayon, the five-tiered, walled pyramid temple Baphuon and the royal enclosure. Stroll through the remains of the former pyramid temple Phimeanaka, discover the elephant depictions on the Elephant Terrace and examine the statue on the "Terrace of the Leper King", which apparently does not depict the Angkor builder King Yasovarman I (899-910), who contracted leprosy, as once assumed, but the Hindu god of death Yama.
The return journey to the hotel takes place in the late afternoon.