Trees Growing from the Ruins, Ta Prom, Cambodia
March 18th 2010 06:41
Trees grow from the ruins of the Ta Prohm Temple
Tree roots invading the structures at Ta Prohm Temple
Ta Prohm Temple, Angkor, Cambodia.
This temple was built in the late 12th and early 13th centuries by Khmer King Jayavarman VII as a Buddhist monastery and university.
After the fall of the Khmer empire in the 15th century, the temple lay abandoned for centuries. It has been left largely untouched, with work being done to stabilise the ruins, rather than restore them.
Of the trees growing out of the ruins, two species predominate:
the Silk-cotton tree (the larger) and the strangler fig (the smaller).
For this information, and much more, available at the wikipedia website page click here.
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