In Siem Reap, there are 3 local market where you can do your shopping. During the day, you can shop at the Center Market or Old Market. Center Market is better place as it is newer and not so hot. I did quite a bit of shopping at Center market.

During the night, there is the Night Market which is meant for the tourists. The pricing here are more expensive and you have more varieties here too.




Local handicraft bags.

Arts and crafts.

Clothings.

handicrafts.

And many more.........

Banteay Srey is a magnificent jewel of a temple @ Angkor Wat. Finely sculpted, with an incredible richness of details, the pink shades of the sandstone come alive in the early morning and at the end of the day. The temple's relatively small size, pink sandstone construction and ornate design give it a fairyland ambiance. The colors are best before 10:30 AM and after 2:00 PM, but there are fewer tourists in the afternoon.Monkeys and Garaudas (Solar Eagles) replace the lions that traditionally guard the temple doors.








Banteay Srey loosely translates to ‘citadel of the women,’ but this is a modern appellation that probably refers to the delicate beauty of the carvings. Built at a time when the Khmer Empire was gaining significant power and territory, the temple was constructed by a Brahmin counselor under a powerful king, Rajendravarman and later under Jayavarman V. Banteay Srey displays some of the finest examples of classical Khmer art.

On the 2nd day late afternoon, my friend and I took a walk from our hotel to Central Market which is about 2 kms away to explore the streets of Siem Reap.

This is one of the main road sign.

Ikea??? The name of this furniture shop!!!

Fruit stalls selling tropical fruits.



The streets are very dusty and not so busy with many motorcyclists.

Sundry shop.

Low traffic.

Stall selling local stuffs.



One of the Spa and massage centre under construction.

Plenty of Massage and Foot Reflexology centres around Siem Reap if you fell tired.

Notice. No helmets required!!

This is Central Market where you can shops for handicrafts, bags, T-shirts etc.

One of modern petrol pump.

Look familiar. Proud to be Malaysian. Cambodia Public Bank.

One of the main and busy road in Siem Reap.

Angkor Wat, this is the Temple that everyone want to see when they come to Siem Reap and we went there on the 2nd Day pm.

Angkor is one of the most important archaeological sites in South-East Asia. Stretching over some 400 km2, including forested area, Angkor Archaeological Park contains the magnificent remains of the different capitals of the Khmer Empire, from the 9th to the 15th century. They include the famous Temple of Angkor Wat and, at Angkor Thom, the Bayon Temple with its countless sculptural decorations. UNESCO has set up a wide-ranging programme to safeguard this symbolic site and its surroundings.
Angkor Wat, built during the early years of the 12th century by Suryavaram II, honors the Hindu god Vishnu and is a symbolic representation of Hindu cosmology. Consisting of an enormous temple symbolizing the mythic Mt. Meru, its five inter-nested rectangular walls and moats represent chains of mountains and the cosmic ocean. The short dimensions of the vast compound are precisely aligned along a north-south axis, while the east-west axis has been deliberately diverted 0.75 degrees south of east and north of west, seemingly in order to give observers a three day anticipation of the spring equinox.

Unlike other temples at Angkor, Ta Prohm has been left as it was found, preserved as an example of what a tropical forest will do to an architectural monument when the protective hands of humans are withdrawn. Ta Prohm's walls, roofs, chambers and courtyards have been sufficiently repaired to stop further deterioration, and the inner sanctuary has been cleared of bushes and thick undergrowth, but the temple has been left in the stranglehold of trees. Having planted themselves centuries ago, the tree's serpentine roots pry apart the ancient stones and their immense trunks straddle the once bustling Buddhist temple. Built in the later part of the 12th century by Jayavarman VII, Ta Prohm is the terrestrial counterpart of the star Eta Draconis the Draco constellation.














Angkor Wat is the prime example of the classical style of Khmer architecture—the Angkor Wat style—to which it has given its name. By the 12th century Khmer architects had become skilled and confident in the use of sandstone (rather than brick or laterite) as the main building material. Most of the visible areas are of sandstone blocks, while laterite was used for the outer wall and for hidden structural parts. The binding agent used to join the blocks is yet to be identified, although natural resins or slaked lime have been suggested









Devatas are characteristic of the Angkor Wat style.