Ta Prome

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When I told  Mr. Marom that we wanted to  be alone in Ta Prome my favourite temple,  he told me it was "not possible Madame" 

We rose at 4.45, had breakfast in the moto dop, saw Angkor Wat at dawn then headed straight to Ta Prome.

There we were completely alone to wonder around the ethereal and beautiful jungle temple held in the embrace of the fig, banyan and kapok trees without which they would undoubtedly collapse.

Dawn Rooney in her temple guide "Angkor" quotes a Mr. M. Mc. Donald who wrote.

"So the temple is held in a strangle hold of trees.  Stone and wood clasp each other in grim hostility, yet all is silent and still without any visible movement to indicate their struggle, as if they were wrestlers suddenly petrified, struck motionless in the middle of a fight. The rounds of this battle are not measured by minutes but by centuries".

 

 "yet all is silent and still" and so it was at 6,15am on Thursday November 22nd 2007 for 20 perfect minutes.  Slowly people began to arrive and at the entry of the first tour group we left.  

 

 

 

 

The afore mentioned strangle hold
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