Tomb Raider temples

I only watched Tomb Raider after I got back from Cambodia, because I'd read about how several of the Angkor temples were used as locations in the film. It's total garbage of course, worse even than I'd expected. But it was interesting to see those great temples again. I'd visited most of them during my petit tour by remork-moto, or on my self-guided bicycle grand tour the next day.

 









Here's Lonely Planet's guide to Lara Croft's (Angelina Jolie's) adventures there:

"The Cambodia shoot opened at Phnom Bakheng, with Lara looking through binoculars for the mysterious temple. The baddies were already trying to break in through the east gate of Angkor Thom by pulling down a giant polystyrene apsara. Reunited with her custom Landrover, Lara made a few laps around Bayon before discovering a back way into the temple from Ta Prohm. After battling a living statue and dodging Daniel Craig (aka 007) by diving off the waterfall at Phnom Kulen, she emerged in a floating market in front of Angkor Wat, as you do. She came ashore here before borrowing a mobile phone from a local monk and venturing into the Gallery of a Thousand Buddhas, where she was healed by the abbot."

I visited about 30 of the Angkor temples over three days, and got a bit templed out. Lonely Planet says you don't actually get templed out, as the temples are all so different. But not to worry, it means I've left a few for next time.

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