"One of these temples—a rival to that of Solomon, and erected by some ancient Michelangelo —might take an honourable place beside our most beautiful buildings. It is grander than anything left to us by Greece or Rome..."
-Henri Mouhot
What i really loved about the Angkor Wat was less the facade itself, althought that was stunning, but more so the cool dark interior corridors that once had seen the passage of people, priests and maybe even kings of the great Khmer civilisation, now whispering such secrets, thick with history and intrigues, in its bas reliefs, carvings, beguiling apsaras (heavenly nymphs) and false windows, and the occassional statuette in the confluence of silent corridors. All silent, all cool in the half light despite the midday sun blazing overhead. I used to stroll the corridors, aimlessly, and wonder, what it must have been like almost 1 millenium ago.
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