Morning dedicated to Angkor Wat, the masterpiece of all Khmer art, the most famous and impressive temple, considered one of the wonders of the world. It is a structure that dazzles in its spectacularity, an example of extraordinary architectural knowledge, decorated with extremely refined sculptures and bas-reliefs, through which the main scenes of the Indian epics are described in a masterly manner.
In the afternoon visit to the Grand Circuit of Angkor, starting with the vast and majestic temple of Prae Khan, also known as the temple of the Holy Sword, which served as a religious and cultural center and, for a period, also as a royal residence. At the time of its maximum development, there were more than ten thousand people, including many important teachers and the Apsara dance corps, the celestial dancers.
It continues with the Neak Pean, the only circular structure in memory of a mythical lake from which the four rivers of Hindu mythology are born. It was at the time used as a place of purification through the waters.
Then we head towards one of the most evocative and romantic temples, the Ta Phrom, totally immersed in the jungle and deliberately left in the conditions in which it was found by the French archaeologists around 1860, partially covered by vegetation, with the roots of the ancient trees that magically enveloping the sculptures and the stone blocks of the galleries, signifying a union between the history and the bursting force of nature itself.