Roots of a Thitpok (Tetrameles nudiflora) tree growing over the carved lintel of the gallery of the second enclosure of Ta Prohm

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Roots of a Thitpok (Tetrameles nudiflora) tree ( spung) growing over the bas-relief carved lintel of the gallery of the second enclosure of Ta Prohm - built by the Khmer King Jayavarman VII as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery and university between late 12th and early 13th centuries, originally called Rajavihara

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Size: 4752px × 3168px
Location: Ta Prohm, Angkor Wat, near Siem Reap, Cambodia, South East Asia
Photo credit: © Emma Durnford / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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