One more look

The stele kiosk at the northeast Prasat Chrung

In a final look at my favoured Prasat Chrung, in the northeast corner of the walled city of Angkor Thom, I've read that the stele kiosk(s) were constructed after the death of Jayavarman VII to house the stelae - literally a long-list of names or descriptions inscribed onto stone slabs - which provided the foundation stones for the walled city and the huge moat surrounding it, as well as extolling the virtues of the king of kings. The walls themselves are 3.3 kilometres in length along each side and by now, I still hadn't reached halfway in my epic cycle ride around the walled embankment, as I continued to the North Gate of the city.

A solitary doorframe with a ruined pediment at the western end of the temple site

The southern false doorway of the main shrine with lintel, pediment and colonettes in situ

A pediment without its Buddha on a plinth and a kala lintel above the south-facing doorway

Two corner devata on the southern face of the main shrine at Prasat Chrung

The devata at the northeast shrine are definitely smaller and less decorated

The eastern doorway of the main shrine on the left and the stele kiosk on the right, unusually very close to each other