Day 1: Bayon - Baphuon - Leper King Terrace - Elephant Terrace - Ta Phrom - Ang Kor Wat
Ah yes... some scenes in the trailer familiar right? Yap, the Tomb Raider did come to Siem Reap to film part of the story, Angelina Jolie did kick and jump around in the Angkor temples in the days and eat and drink in Pub Street in the nights. One temple especially made famous and even up to the extent that it is known as the "Tomb Raider temple" is Ta Phrom.
The Ta Phrom is characterised by the gigantic silk-cotton trees and strangler vines over-running the old temple roofs and walls. Siem Reap has decided to leave the temple as it is - slowly been eaten up by the trees - not to remember how it looked like in the Tomb Raider film, but because they want people to see what nature can do to a building if they just leave it alone in the jungle.
King Jayavarman VII constructed Ta Phrom in honor of his mother and Preah Khan for his father. When his mother passed away, he buried her in one of the chambers and decorated the walls with diamonds! Rich lor! But of course after all these years, what we see are just holes lah, where got diamonds left for us! But wait! Isn't that a Christmas tree?!?
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