Bayon - faces in the jungle

This was our second day. When Angkor Wat was attacked, the king decided to move house and built a new town and temple a few hundred metres away, Angkor Thom is the town and Bayon is the temple at the centre. They used these massive face sculptures to protect the new site. They are very striking, they are on every turret on all 4 sides. 55 in total.

The palace has a terrace called terrace of the elephants. While we were looking at a terrace with elephant carvings and statues I said to gav "we need to find the elephant terrace next". "Perhaps this is it Bec!"