BANTEAY SREI

INTRICATE and intimate, delicate and feminine, “The Citadel Of Women” surpasses anything in Cambodia for workmanship.
23km north east of Angkor Wat, Banteay Srei has stood for 1050 years, isolated and vulnerable, yet remarkably well preserved.
Looters have done their dirty work, and Khmer Rouge units kept her off limits for foreigners for several years after the UN period. The worst must hopefully be behind for this most exquisite of temples.