Excited move to Ta Prohm, engraved by the fig trees and gigantic roots. The temple is widely known through the terrific move filmed by Hollywood and legend actress Angelina Jolie, the Tomb Raider. Ta Prohm has been abandoned to the elements, a reminder that while empires rise and fall, the riotous power of nature marches on, oblivious to the dramas of human history. Left as it was ‘discovered’ by French explorer Henri Mouhot in 1860, the tentacle-like tree roots here are slowly strangling the stones, man first conquering nature to create, nature later conquering man to destroy.

Having embraced the unique atmosphere of Ta Prohm, heading back to Hotel for relaxation. Leaving again at 14:00 for the exciting visit to the immense walled city of Angkor Thom, the masterpiece of Great King Jayavarman VII. Angkor Thom covers an area of main temple of Bayon, nearby Terrace of elephant, Baphuon, Royal Palace and Phimeanakas. This, the State Temple of Jayavarman VII and his immediate successors, is one of the most enigmatic and powerful religious constructions in the world. The temple is extremely complex both in terms of its structure and meaning, having passed through different religious phases from Pantheon of the Gods, Hindu worship and Buddhism. It uses, uniquely, a mass of face-towers to create a stone mountain of ascending peaks.