Royal Palace Phnom Penh
The Victory Gate to the palace, overlooking the Mekong, although the entrance for visitors is further along through a very modest hole in the wall.
A reminder that coconuts falling from a great height can hurt or even kill.
The entrance for visitors.
Just one of the many buildings within the complex. It is a spectacular complex with some fascinating architecture but it was only built in 1866.
There are extensive manicured gardens...
...and many buildings although visitors can only enter two buildings.
A detail of one of the windows.
One of the walkways around the palace.
The Temple of the Emerald Buddha, and inside there really is an emerald buddha statue standing more than a metre high.
A freize along one of the covered walkways.
A bell tower.
A model of Angkor Wat.
The Kailassa Mountain, an artificial hill to represent an unclimbed sacred buddhist mountain in Tibet. Regretably, the temple on the summit was undergoing repairs.
After the royal palace, it was a short walk to the National Museum. It is housed in an impressive building
The main entrance. It is a large building but it only has exhibits open to the public on the ground floor. Ther are a lot of statues, mainly of buddha from different eras and areas but not much else so it didn't take me long to walk through all the exhibition halls.
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