Doorways in line
One after another.
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Banteay Kdei is a large Buddhist temple at Angkor, its galleries and passages running between crumbling towers. Stone doorways line up one behind another, walls are carved with dancing figures, tall trees shade the courtyards and fallen blocks lie between the passages. It was built between the mid-12th and early 13th centuries under King Jayavarman VII, in the Bayon style, and is laid out like Ta Prohm and Preah Khan but smaller and simpler. Its name means «citadel of chambers», and it is also called the «citadel of monks' cells»; monks lived there at intervals until the 1960s. It is fragile because of poor construction and weak sandstone, and restoration is under way. You enter by the west gate after a 600 m walk from Ta Prohm, follow the long passages through to the east side, then cross the road to the Srah Srang reservoir opposite. The temple is about 3.9 km in a straight line northeast of Angkor Wat. Some parts are propped with timber for restoration, so keep out of them. Temples are sacred places, so cover your shoulders and knees, and do not climb on carved stone.
One after another.
On the walls.
Under the trees.
Southeast of Ta Prohm, opposite Srah Srang, Angkor Archaeological Park
Yes, they are 600 m apart.
The Srah Srang reservoir across the road.
