Locals pose for pictures with three ancient Khmer sculptures that have grown lush green heads of hair during the current rainy season.

The figures form part of the boundary wall leading to the Bayon temple in the historic Angkor Thom compound in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

They would have gone unnoticed, but the wet weather has seen perfectly placed carpets of moss grow on their otherwise bald heads.

Found alongside the Khmoch Gate, or Gate of the Dead, they have become a popular selfie spot for locals visiting the Angkor Archaeological Park.

Queues of visitors were forming at the unlikely attraction on Sunday afternoon, with the country at the peak of its annual monsoon rainy season that sees daily downpours.

The region was once the seat of the mighty Khmer Empire, which ruled over swathes of Southeast Asia from the eighth to the thirteenth centuries.