The Nirvana Palace of the Angkor Wat trip~ The Royal Herbal Hospital in ancient times~ Mainly for medical bath treatment~ So many large pools~ The long plank road on both sides of the extremely wide water surface withered wood~ Very decadent beauty~ Most of the architectural relics are still being repaired and not open to the outside world~

Nirvana Palace was a temple sanatorium and a big hospital at the time. Even today, Cambodians still believe in the magical efficacy of the snake temple. Although the pool has been desolate for a long time, locals still pick plants in the water and take them home for a medicinal bath.

In ancient hospitals, doctors decided which pool you should soak in by judging which disease you have in the soil and water. After Angkor was abandoned, the artificial reservoir surrounding the pool hospital dried up and many trees grew. With the return of humans, the reservoir was put into use again, so the trees died into rows of stumps in the water, which was breathtaking. Ancient times, I needed to row a boat to enter the hospital, and now I have a boardwalk to enter. In fact, after entering, there is not much to see.

Neak Poan temple is a very popular island temple on the large circuit road at Angkor Wat. There isn't much of the temple, and due to the reflection on the lake, it gets *very* hot here. The highlight are the bridge, still waters and mirror image that is created.

Unlike other temples used to worship gods or the remains of the late king, the NeakPean was originally a place for healing patients, equivalent to our hospital today, so the LongPean pool has no tall buildings, on the contrary, It dug down five huge sinking pools. The large pool in the middle of the dragon's pond had a small pool in four directions, and the water flowed into the small pool through the four-faced nozzles of the sculpture. The statue in the north was an elephant, representing water; The statues of the East are people (according to archaeological data, the statues of the East were originally also an animal, said to be cattle, but for some reason, or when they were changed into human shape), representing the earth; the statues of the South are lions, representing fire; the statues of the West are horses, representing the wind.

Nirvana Palace is because his name Neak Pean, completely transliteration, in fact, the real meaning should be two snakes' coil, that is, Naga, in fact, I prefer the name dragon. The entire temple is a 14 cm diameter circular base, a closer look, in fact, it is a total of 7 layers, gradually shrinking to the center, a bit like Beijing's Temple of Heaven. Look closely and you will find many details, such as the two coiled snakes below, and a horse galloping up ahead of it, and many beside the horse. From the perspective of the visit, it is not possible to circle the entire palace at present, which also leaves us a lot of regret.

Siem Reap, Cambodia. The second stop of the big circle, also called the Longqiang Pool, when entering from the entrance, there is a wooden plank road, on both sides of the plank road, the lake water is dry, the lake water is forested, there is a feeling of the end of the world, very suitable for taking pictures. The end is the pool, the pool in ancient times has the role of a hospital, patients will wash the pain in the pool.