Siem Reap hotels collection

The sandstone of Angkor came down from Phnom Kulen by canal, on rafts, and many blocks still carry the small holes where pegs were driven in to hoist them; laterite, out of sight, makes the foundations. Angkor Wat turns its façade to the west, the side of the dead, and at the spring equinox the sun rises directly above its central tower. In the middle of the West Baray, a farmer dreamt that the Buddha asked to be freed from the earth; they dug on the islet of the Mebon and brought out a reclining Vishnu, in bronze.