A small chapel on the upper terrace of the Bayon, Angkor, has been converted into a Buddhist shrine, tended by an old Khmer woman. Through the chapel's window, one of the famous enigmatic faces of this temple looks on. The Bayon, built between the late 12th and late 13th centuries by King Jayavarman VII, was the State temple of the time, at the centre of the city of Angkor Thom.