Individual excursion to Angkor with a professional guide
Description:
The heyday of temple construction in the Ancient Khmer Empire falls on the 9th-13th centuries AD. The completed transition to the feudal system provides the Khmer state with a general political, economic, cultural and artistic upsurge. During this period, masterpieces of urban planning art and architecture were created.
The center of the state is the Angkor district, with an area of more than 600 square kilometers. There were more than ten capital cities and more than a thousand monumental buildings with countless monuments of sculpture and decorative ornamentation.
The tour route includes temples:
Angkor Wat. Cult religious construction of the entire region of Southeast Asia. The size of the temple is grandiose: about one and a half kilometers long and a kilometer wide. The plan is a huge mandala surrounded by water. The perfect clarity and increasing rhythm of the composition, the strict proportionality of all the details of the ensemble, the expressiveness of architectural elements, the plot bas-reliefs provide an inspired emotional perception of the structure and complete spiritual ecstasy. Ta Prohm. The famous temple "with giant walking trees". The place is filled with romance of the era of discoverers. In 1860, the French traveler Henri Muo opened to the European mass audience giant stone temples abandoned in the jungle. The first explorers and guardians of Angkor in the 19th century “through prickly shrubs and hanging lianas, cutting their way with machetes” through the jungle came to the mysterious structures. In the early 2000s, the filming of the film “Lara Croft” Tomb Raider” with Angelina Jolie took place in the temple. Ancient City of Angkor Tom (completely). The last and longest-lasting capital of Angkor. In the second half of the 12th and 13th centuries, the power of the Khmer Empire reached its apogee. It has become not only the largest, but also dominant in Southeast Asia. This period in the history of the country is associated with the outstanding King Jayavarman the Seven, who lived about a hundred years and reigned about fifty. Defeating enemies, he builds a new city Angkor Tom ("Great Capital"). The ruler created the city to glorify his “I” during life and deification after death. Angkor Tom has a square shape of 3*3 km. It is surrounded by a 100 m wide canal and a wall with five gates (including the Victory Gate). Inside the city there are many temples (Phimeanakas, Bapuon, Preah Palilai, Bayon), swimming pools, terraces of elephants and leper king. Bayon. The central temple in the city of Angkor Tom. "The Quintessence of Chaos." It has a completely fantastic appearance thanks to huge stone faces that look majestically from above with a mysterious smile at the visitor and convey a state of sublime detachment. The Bayon temple does not have any close stylistic similarity in world architecture. The structure is imbued with symbolism. Every detail has a certain meaning. Bayon brought to our days a very integral and complete expression of philosophical concepts and ideological and artistic worldview of his era. The temple is especially loved by people of creative professions. Above are the mandatory temples. Without them, you will not have a complete picture of Angkor.
The program can be supplemented with 2-3 temples. Often this issue is solved on the spot according to your desires and forces, time.