Naga: 5-headed snake that takes you to heaven.
December 26, 2010
After the floating village, we drove along dirt, back roads to a hidden, jungle-covered ruin of a temple...associated with the vast Angkor Wat set of temples, but about an hour away from Angkor Wat. The joy of this plundered temple was that our kids could climb ALL over the rubble. They ran and climbed like it'd been months since they'd been freed from the many vans have trapped them for hours on our holiday tour. So, while most of the carvings had been stolen or worn away, watching the kids climb was equally blissful for us.
We could still imagine the priests designing and building this temple outpost, with a high temple in the center that the kids climbed up to, helping Boom up the big, fallen blocks. The only thing that gave us pause was seeing the Mine Clearance sign on our way out. Only as recent as 2007 did they start clearing the mines from the land around this temple.
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