I'm standing here, right in front of Angkor Wat.
This is the great Khmer masterpiece, great architecture built by the Khmer king.
The largest temple complex of the whole temple of Angkor, it's Angkor Wat.
This is probably the most sacred shrine in Angkor Wat today.
Because of this statue... it's thought that it was the original statue of Vishnu from the central towers
that had been removed when the Buddhists came, probably, 16th, 17th century.
Then the statue has been here.
The people believe that this was a spirit of protectors of the temples and also for their village and everything.
This is one of my favorite spots of the Angkor Wat, because you could view the central top of Angkor Wat,
where you could see these four towers, basically, the one in the middle and then another one in the back.
You know, there's no other place in the world that has this kind of great monument.
This monument, it's standing as a great foundation of the nation. It's throughout all the history of Cambodia.
Angkor Wat, it's still standing as a place now for tourists to come and see this heritage site.
So, Bayon, it's also one of my favorite temples so far.
And it has the distinctive architectural design to represent the god and earth and all the elements.
The towers shaped with the face of the Buddha, and likeness of the king, and the lotus blossom on the top represent the heaven.
So, the heavens, the Buddha, all the elements.
And this is a, you know, a beautiful place, even though one would imagine that these whole towers would have been painted in gold in the heyday.
And they must have been so spectacular, so beautiful.
This is the Temple of Ta Prohm, which is a contemporary name.
The old name, it's called Rajavihara, which is... means the royal monastery. It's built by the most famous king of Angkor, Jayavarman VII.
And as the place he dedicated to his mother, so now it's the "mother temple."
Today, most tourists and most people who come here refer to it as the "jungle temple,"
because of the evidence of the jungle here -- giant trees overgrown on top of the building.
So, this is one of the great examples of the tree, the spung tree, or the Tetrameles nudiflora.
This kind of giant trees started from the top and the roots came all the way down to the ground, and the whole thing went "bvrrp" for, like, 600 years.
And the tree is probably about 300 or something years old. But this was under the jungle for almost 600 years.
And this is how many people recognize that this was a jungle temple because they saw that this giant tree is here, you know, growing on the top of the roof of the building like that.
So, it's part of the French idea to preserve this as the... as a temple of the ruin[s], the way they found it.
So, it's kind of romantic of the French. You know, they even named the tree. It's a fromage. It means "cheese."
It's like a cheese melting down from the buildings, so the fromage.
It's like a ripened brieor something, the illusion of the French in those days. So, it's really something.