{"id":362,"date":"2019-06-03T06:06:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T10:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/?p=362"},"modified":"2019-06-03T06:06:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T10:06:27","slug":"first-visit-to-angkor-wat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/2019\/06\/03\/first-visit-to-angkor-wat\/","title":{"rendered":"First visit to Angkor Wat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angkor Wat and the surrounding temples are difficult to describe and pictures don&#8217;t do it justice, but here goes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-366\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/files\/2019\/06\/IMG_1333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a hot day but the views are so stunning that we pushed through. You can see the main temple of Angkor Wat behind us. We are standing beside the causeway, also known as the rainbow road and the road to heaven.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-363\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/files\/2019\/06\/IMG_2727.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Angkor Wat from the south entrance. Our guide was helpful and gave us a tour that started at the back, avoiding some of the crowds coming in the front.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-371\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/files\/2019\/06\/IMG_2730.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our guide telling us about the 3 levels depicted in the mural, Hell, Human and Heaven.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-372\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/files\/2019\/06\/IMG_2731.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Exploring the inner chambers with unimaginably intricate designs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-373\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/files\/2019\/06\/IMG_2732.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amazing views from every angle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-377\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/files\/2019\/06\/IMG_2738.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beautiful views of the jungle from the top level of Angkor Wat.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-367\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/files\/2019\/06\/IMG_2785.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After walking through the temple and around the grounds, we crossed the moat and went to Bayon, the main temple within the ancient walled city of Angkor Tom. There are 56 towers with 4 faces on each, representing the 4 characteristics needed to reach nirvana.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angkor Wat and the surrounding temples are difficult to describe and pictures don&#8217;t do it justice, but here goes. It<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/encompass-sea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}