Temples of Angkor - Ta Prohm (Siem Reap, Cambodia)

This temple was one of King Jayavarman VII's first major temple projects. Ta Prohm was dedicated to his mother. Ta Prohm was originally constructed as a Buddhist monastery and was enormously wealthy in its time, boasting control over 3000 villages, thousands of support staff and vast stores of jewels and gold. Massive fig and silk trees grow from the towers and corridors while the trees surrounding the temple are filled with noisy parrots and monkeys.