The temple complexes here are truly vast, I&rsquo;ve given myself 3 days to try and explore as much as possible but it would take weeks to see everything. Today I will start with Angkor Wat, the 8th wonder of the world and the most impressive temple of them all being the largest religious building in the world.

A short 7km tuk tuk ride north from Siem Reap brings you to Angkor Wat, the nearest temple. As I approached this massive mote came into view. The temple is surrounding by a large rectangular mote 3.6km long by 190m wide that would put any medieval European castle builder to shame.

The temple itself was built in the 12th century and contains two basic Khmer temple building plans, which I&rsquo;ve noticed are common throughout the temples here, the temple mountain and the galleried temple. The mountain represented at Angkor Wat is Mount Meru, home of devas in Hindu mythology. The galleried temple usually has a passageway running along the wall of an enclosure or along the axis of a temple, often open to one or both sides. With Angkor Wat half galleries were used to buttresses the structure.