The helmeted shapes of the three central towers of Angkor Wat emerge in the far distance from the forest.

This is the most solitary place in all of Angkor - and the pleasantest. It is at sunset and sunrise that you feel its most potent charm. Here at the summit it is very stiil. You stand in godlike isolation on the roof of a world that seems to be floating in the sky. The sanctuaries and altars on the terrace take shape about you as if by enchantment - an utterly magical view. You can see enough of the Wat's immense plan to realize something of the superb audacity of the architects who dared to embark upon a single plan measuring nearly a mile square. There is no other point which the Wat appears so inconceivable an undertaking to have been attempted - much less achieved - by human brains and hands.