Buddhist monks in Cambodia

Giant strangler fig tree roots embrace the crumbling Ta Prohm temple at Angkor. Although the forest has overrun this sacred site, it has largely escaped the looting that decimated many of its fellow Cambodian temples. Buddhist monks inhabit the Angkor temples today just as their ancestors did during the height of the Khmer empire (from the 9th to the 13th centuries), when Angkor was the capital city.