Each tower is decorated with them and has four faces .
No matter where you look, you see the 216 giant heads looking at you from various angles. It can be very unnerving.
Temple of Bayon is not as well preserved as Angkor Wat but what remains is still phenomenal.
It is a place of stooped corridors, precipitous flight of stairs and a collection of 54 gothic towers decorated with 216 coldly smiling and enormous faces of Avalokiteshvara but some say it resembles the king himself.
Bayon epitomises the creative genius and inflated ego of legendary king Jayavarman VII.
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