Ta Som is a little more remote and fewer people visiting. My favorite thing to see is the east gate. Since everyone usually enters from the west side, you have to walk through the entire complex of Ta Som to get to the east side. Then, it doesn’t look like anything more significant than any other tower gate at an Angkor site. t has the typical face on the tower but if you look closely at the top, there seems to be a large tree growing from the top with no roots. It is exactly over the door way.

Walk through the door way and you will see how this tree is supported. It is a beautiful and interesting view. The roots found their way around the door and into the ground. A very cool thing to see.

Another temple along the Grand Circuit road, Ta Som was built in the late 12 century. The interesting thing with Ta Som is that none of it has been restored. Also the there is a gate tower at the entrance with four faces of Buddha, very similar to the gates at the entrance/exit to Angkor Thom.

Through this entrance gate there are three walls to go through. One of the main attractions at Ta Som is the final gate at the east entrance. From the west it looks like an ordinary gate entrance but walk through the gate and turn around to see the gate completely engulfed by the roots of a tree growing on top. Very impressive to see. There were few people when I was here and it was quite enjoyable.