Boeng Mealea

The following photos are all from Boeng Mealea temple, perhaps the most visually stunning place I've visited in Cambodia. The temple has been completely reclaimed by the jungle, with roots, trunks, limbs, and lush greenery growing in, on, between, through, and over the massive cut stones. Though perhaps trite to describe it as such, it did indeed feel like a scene from a Indiana Jones movie. Most of the outer walls are still standing, and inside is a child's ultimate playground. Piles of rubble, secret passage ways, countless things to climb, fantastic carvings of ancient figure--it would be an incredible venue for a game of Capture the Flag!

We had an excellent tour guide, but I was much too busy exploring the ruins on my own to listen, so I learned very little of the temple's history.