2019 - Cambodia - Siem Reap - Bayon Temple - 2

            This is Tonle Om Gate (South Gate) where we entered Angkor Thom to visit Bayon Temple.

The south gate of Angkor Thom (Tonle Om) is the best preserved of the four main gates. It is approached from outside via a causeway that extends about fifty meters across a moat.

Angkor Thom means 'Great City.  Tonle means river, Om means row (a boat). The special name came from the annual ceremony of boat racing held at the outer moat.

Through here all comers to the city had to pass, and in honour of this function it has been built in a style grandiose and elegant, forming a whole, incomparable in its strength and expression.
The entry towers are among the most photographed of all the ancient Cambodian ruins. 

Each sandstone tower rises 23 meters (75 feet) and is crowned with four heads, one facing each cardinal direction. The faces may represent the rulers of the four cardinal points at the summit of mount Meru.

The lower half of each gate is modeled like an elephant with three heads. Their trunks, which serve as pillars, are plucking lotus flowers. The Hindu god Indra sits at the center of the elephant with an Apsara on each side. He holds a thunderbolt in his lower left hand.

Looking through the tower one can see a corbel arch, a hallmark of Khmer architecture. Inside, wooden crossbeams are visible and a sentry box stands on each side.

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Taken in: Cambodia / Siem Reap / Phum Koŭk Dong (show map)

Taken on: December 19, 2019

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