Banteay Srei Temple

After leaving Kbal Spean, we drove by tuk tuk to the ruins of Banteay Srei Temple, which is on the way back to Siem Reap. Banteay Srei is the most elaborately decorated of all Angkor’s monuments, its walls, false doors, lintels and exotic soaring pediments all richly embellished with floral motifs and Ramayana scenes. Banteay Srei was built not by a king, but by two local dignitaries, and as a result it was required to be somewhat smaller in scale then the temples built by kings.Read more