The day started a little late. I was ready to board my tuk-tuk at about 11am (after the usual morning things and a brench). Today, my journey continued within the Angkor Thom city. I started off with Bapuon. Normally all these temples have a requirement of women to dress moderately. But specifically at this temple, they were enforcing that women wear a dress at least knee-length. As usual, this is another temple that has a little pyramid structure. Beginning with a long corridor, the path leads into the outer wall of the temple. After a open space, the pyramid structure starts. After the Angkor Wat, it became my habit to look for any sculptures (small or big) that enact any Hindu God or any scene from Hindu epics. Though this temple is not known for such sculptures, I was not disappointed for the effort I took to look for every small wall.
Here is a scene from Ramayana with Rama and Lakshmana
Here is a scene from Mahabharatha with Bishmar on the bed of arrows
The city complex also contains the royal palace, elephant and lion terraces. After walking around, tuk-tuk dropped me at Ta Keo. It is another pyramid like temple. Though there are many shiva lingas are seen in different temples, here they preserved a Nandhi (a bull vehicle of Shiva) though it is kept at a side.
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