Nature versus man. A hidden smiling face, swallowed up by huge strangler fig tree roots, is all that remains of this stone statue in Ta Prohm, Angkor

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Size: 2832px × 4256px
Location: Ta Prohm Temple, Banteay Chhmar, Cambodia
Photo credit: © Linda Kennard / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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