Bayon Temple 巴戎寺
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The faces!
The second temple of the day after Angkor Wat is Bayon Temple. Google translates Bayon to 巴戎寺 in Chinese, but my iPhone photos’ location at the top show 通王城 (pretty odd that my photos’ location is shown in Chinese).
- Angkor Thom, was the last capital city of the Khmer empire
- Bayon, a temple in the center of Angkor Thom.
The tour allotted 30 minutes at Bayon, even I thought we could use more time.
This Buddhist temple is well decorated with many faces. It was built in the late 12th or early 13th century as the state temple of the King Jayavarman VII (ព្រះបាទជ័យវរ្ម័នទី ៧; 1122/5-1218), locates at the centre of Jayavarman’s capital, Angkor Thom (អង្គរធំ; 吴哥城/大吴哥/通王城).
Before Bayon, we stopped at the moat/bridge for 20 minutes
After Bayon temple and before lunch, we stopped by a buddha. The Korean family prayed.
