Ta Prohm is the ruins made famous by the Tomb Raider movie. It was a lot busier than the first temple we visited but our guide managed to steer us around the worst of it and knew all the angles to get the best shots with less people in them.
It is amazing the way the access to the temples is pretty much unrestricted, a great joy for Toby who loves running over all the ruins and climbing up the big piles of rocks.
I was quite impressed by the odd shape of the rocks making the wall, looks like a lot of work! Like a giant jigsaw puzzle.
Ta Prohm is the one with all the trees growing over the temple. Our guide was a bit sad about all the restoration work going on, he likes them better unrenovated. I can relate to that after going to Angor Wat later in the week (the most restored, with no trees!), but I am also glad they are restored and stable enough to walk through (with a bit of scaffolding supporting parts of it).
Check out the carving above - much speculation about what a dinosaur doing....how long ago were these temples built? or is it a rhino or a buffalo with some decoration. I was super excited to see this having read about it in my research but Toby, despite being a dinosaur fan wasn't that impressed.
Dino above in a row of carvings.
Toby was usually super excited at the start of a temple but by about halfway through lost a bit of enthusiasm. As happened above, at one of the most popular tourist photo hot spots, he's hiding out underneath.
Below is some of the restoration work going on, was funny to see a crane in the middle of the jungle, you have to walk about 500m to get to the beginning of the temple complex from the main road.
Can't get enough of these trees.
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