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| Le Bistrot de Paris
| Siem Reap | N° 170, groupe 1, Village de Mondul 1, commune de Svay Dangkum , Siem Reap
Tél : 092 96 47 90
In full centre town with two steps of the old market the Bar of Paris and its Bruno owner accomodates you within a charming framework pointing out the good bars of France,this establishment decorated with a splendid reproduction of the Eiffel Tower, of more than 2 meters in height realized with talent by French ferronier of art installed in Siem Reap , you proposes a chart sympathetic brewery energy .
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| Le Barrio
| Siem Reap | French restaurant on the Sivutha Boulevard right beside the Hotel de la Paix
Very good restoring bar or one can taste there good French and Kampuchean dishes at moderate prices
The Patrick owner reserves the best reception there to you
Reservation : 012 756448
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| Chez Mathieu - Face à Angkor Wat
| Siem Reap | Vis-a-vis with the temple of Angkor Wat another monument is: Mathieu and his restaurant who are there since the beginning of the Nineties
You will be able to taste there while contemplating one of the most beautiful wonders of Asia of good French and Kampuchean dishes Formules from us$ 10.00
E-mail : matthieu@camshin.com.kh
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| LE DEAUVILLE
| Phnom Penh | In the center of Phnom-Penh you must visit 2 monuments, Deauville and incidentally the small hill at side Wat Phnom, that made a long time that Dédé and its Jacky associate occupy the places, some claim since Marco Polo, but I think that they exaggerate.
That does of them one of the most accessible places of the city that it is for the aperitif or to taste good French dishes or Kampuchean dishes.
Photograph: behind you can find Deauville
E-mail : ledeauville1@yahoo.fr
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| Silk Garden Bar Rstaurant
| Siem Reap | n the center of Siem reap in some metres of pub just street behind Samatoa is an unusual place built in bamboo with many of gout, it is Silk Garden, a place or we can drink cocktails(cocktail parties), good beer, good wine, etc. but also sample delicious Breton pancakes (as well as the other specialities and the local flats(dishes)), true of true as over there and it is normal because Anthony the manager of places is a pure Breton,during your passage to Siem reap do not forget to cross to say hello to him and to drink avel he " IRMAT ! ".
E-mail : silk.garden@ymail.com
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| NOMAD RESTAURANT
| Saïgon/Vietnam | NOMAD RESTAURANT
50 Mac Dinh Chi- District 1- Ho Chi Minh City-VIETNAM
Tel:+ (84). 8 233 804
Fax: + (84). 8 8273657
Website: nomad-restaurants.com
Our new e-mail: info@nomad-restaurants.com
E-mail : info@nomad-restaurants.com
Web : http://www.nomad-restaurants.com
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| LES ORIENTALISTES
| Siem Reap | A place very pleasant: A restaurant of quality which proposes a very beautiful menu with Asian dishes, European and others, such as delicious tajines, it is an address which we recommend to you.
The Orientalists they is also 4 superb rooms of hosts and one suite.
E-mail : contact@les-orientalistes.com
Web : http://www.les-orientalistes.com
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| Le Malraux
| Siem Reap | A new bar restaurant full of charm in the center of Siem Reap, Chrisophe the boss of the place reserves you the best reception there. One of the meilleires tables of the city.
E-mail : info@le-malraux-siem-reap.com
Web : http://www.le-malraux-siem-reap.com
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| Paris-Saïgon
| Siem Reap | Yves and his Vietnamese wife are installed to Siem reap for many years,after having created and exploited Only One Café Restaurantthey they tempt a new experience with Paris-Saigon where you can taste a French cuisine and a vietnamese cuisine of first quality.
E-mail : yvesboucaret@online.com.kh
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| Ambassy or Consulate
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| Ambassade de France / French Embassy
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of France
N° 1, Preah Monivong
12151 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 430 026
* Tel 023 430 020
* Tel 023 430 030
* Fax 023 430 037-8
* Fax 023 430 041
* Fax 023 430 035
E-mail : consulat.phnom-penh-amba@diplomatie.gouv.fr
Web : http://www.ambafrance-kh.org/
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| Ambassade d'Allemagne / German Embassy
| Phnom Penh | German Embassy
N° 76-78, Yougoslavie 214
12258 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 216 381 Etx 210
* Tel 023 216 193
* Fax 023 427 746
Web : http://www.phnom-penh.diplo.de/Vertretung/phnompenh/de/Startseite.html
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| Consulat Général de Suisse/Consulate of Switzerland
| Phnom Penh | Consulate General of Switzerland
N° 53D, Oknha Peich (St. 242)
12156 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel023 220 127
* Tel023 219 045
* Fax023 213 375
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| Ambassade d'Angleterre / British Embassy
| Phnom Penh | British Embassy
N° 27-29, Botum Soriyavong (St. 75)
12201 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 428 153
* Tel 023 427 124
* Fax 023 427 125
Web : http://ukincambodia.fco.gov.uk
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| Ambassade du Canada / Embassy of Canada
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of Canada
N° 9-11, Senei Vinna Vaut Oum (St. 254)
12207 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 213 470 Ext. 426
* Fax 023 211 389
* Website : www.cambodia.gc.ca
Web : http://www.cambodia.gc.ca
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| Ambassade du Danemark / Danish Embassy
| Phnom Penh | Royal Danish Embassy
N° 8, Street 352
12302 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 987 629
* Tel 023 211 484
* Tel 023 993 075
* Fax 023 993 065
* Website www.danida-cambodia.org
Web : http:// http://www.danida-cambodia.org
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| Consulat de Belgique / Consulate of Belgium
| Phnom Penh | Consulate of Belgium
N° 313, Sisowath, Ground Floor Room 4, Cambodiana Hotel
12207 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel & Fax 023 214 024
* Mobile Phone 012 824 325
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| Ambassade d'Australie / Australian Embassy
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of Australia
N° 11, Senei Vinna Vaut Oum (St. 254)
12207 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 213 470
* Fax 023 213 413
* Fax 023 213 414
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| Ambassade de Bulgarie / Bulgarian Embassy
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of Bulgaria
N° 227-229, Norodom
12301 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 217 504
* Tel 023 723 182
* Fax 023 212 792
* Mobile Phone 016 915 825
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| Ambassade du Bruneï / Embassy of Brunei Darussalam
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of Brunei Darussalam
N° 237, Street 51
12302 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 211 457-8
* Fax 023 211 456
* Mobile Phone 012 756 567
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| Ambassade de Cuba / Embassy of Cuba
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of Cuba
N° 96-98, Yougoslavie 214
12258 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 213 965
* Tel 023 368 610
* Fax 023 217 428
* Mobile Phone 011 887 773
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| Ambassade d'Inde / Embassy of India
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of India
N° 5, Chakrey Nhek Tioulong (St. 466)
Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 210 912-3
* Fax 023 213 640
* Fax 023 210 914
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| Ambassade du Japon / Embassy of Japan
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of Japan
N° 194, Norodom
12210 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 217 161-4
* Fax 023 216 162
Web : http:// http://www.kh.emb-japan.go.jp
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| Ambassade d'Indonésie / Embassy of the Republic of Indonesi
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia
N° 1, Chakrey Nhek Tioulong (St. 466)
12207 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 217 934
* Tel 023 216 148
* Tel 023 217 148
* Fax 023 217 566
* Fax 023 217 947
Web : http://www.phnompenh-indonesia.com.kh
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| Ambassade de Corée du Sud /Embassy of the Republic of Korea
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of the Republic of Korea
N° 50-52, Samdech Pan (St. 214)
12211 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 211 901-3
* Fax 023 219 200
Web : http:// http://www.koreanembcam.go.kr
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| Ambassade du Vietnam/Embassy of Vietnam
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
N° 436, Preah Monivong
12301 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 726 283-4
* Fax 023 726 495
* Mobile Phone 012 901 440
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| Ambassade de Malte/ Embassy of Malta
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
N° 10, Street 370
12302 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 212 742
* Tel & Fax 023 368 184
* Fax 023 366 194
* Mobile Phone 012 834 833
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| Ambassade de Malaisie
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of Malaysia
N° 5, Oknha Peich (St. 242)
12207 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 216 176-7
* Fax 023 216 004
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| Ambassade du Pakistan / Embassy of Pakistan
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of Pakistan
N° 45, Street 310
12303 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 996 890-1
* Fax 023 992 113
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| Ambassade de Pologne/ Embassy of Polande
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of Poland
N° 767, Preah Monivong
12305 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 217 782-3
* Fax 023 217 781
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| Ambassade de Suède / Embassy of Sweden
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of Sweden
N° 8, Street 352
12302 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 212 259 Ext 222
* Fax 023 212 867
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| Ambassade de Chine/Embassy of the People’s Republic of China
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of the People’s Republic of China
N° 156, Mao Tse Toung (St. 245)
12311 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 720 920-1
* Tel 023 720 923
* Tel & Fax 023 720 922
* Fax 023 210 861
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| Ambassade des Philippines/Embassy of the Philippines
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of the Philippines
N° 33, Rue Oknha Chrun Youhak (294)
12301 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 222 303-4
* Tel 023 215 145
* Tel 023 217 934
* Fax 023 215 143
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| Ambassade de Singapour/Embassy of the Republic of Singapore
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of the Republic of Singapore
N° 129, Norodom
12207 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 221 875-6
* Fax 023 210 862
* Mobile Phone 012 803 822
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| Ambassade de Russie/Embassy of the Russia Federation
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of the Russia Federation
N° 213, Samdech Sothearos (St. 3)
12301 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 210 931
* Fax 023 216 776
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| Ambassade du Myanmar/ Embassy of the Union of Myanmar
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of the Union of Myanmar
N° 181, Norodom
12302 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 223 761-2
* Fax 023 223 763
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| Ambassade des Etats-Unis/ Embassy of USA
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of the United States of America
N° 1, Christopher Howes, Daun Penh (St. 96)
12202 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 728 000
* Fax 023 728 600
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| Ambassade du Laos/ Embassy of Laos
| Phnom Penh | Embassy of Laos
N° 15-17 , Mao Tse Toung (St. 245)
12304 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 983 632
* Tel 023 982 632
* Fax 023 720 907
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| Ambassade de Thaïlande/ Royal Thai Embassy
| Phnom Penh | Royal Thai Embassy
N° 196M.V., Norodom
12301 Phnom Penh, Cambodge
* Tel 023 726 306-10
* Fax 023 726 303
* Office of the Defence Attach 023 726 301
* Office of Commercial Affairs 023 726 304
* Fax 023 726 305
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| Parc
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| LE PARC DE L'INDEPENDANCE
| Siem Reap | In front of the Residence of the king is the park of Independence , it is a pleasant place where it is good to walk.
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| Museum
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| Siem Reap | A visit a little less funny
On the N°6 road in direction of the Airport is the museum of the war
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| MUSEE NATIONAL D'ANGKOR/ ANGKOR NATIONAL MUSEUM
| Siem Reap | On the road of the temples a splendid building is in the course of construction, it will be the ANGKOR NATIONAL MUSEUM
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| Touristic area
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| LE BOKOR
| Kampot | The Bokor overhangs the sea close to Kampot, it was formerly a vacation resort or there the inhabitants of the capital and especially French at the time of protectorate liked to come to remain and there seek a little freshness.
On the photograph you can see what there remains splendid Palace which was the pride of Bokor.
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| LAC TONLE SAP
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| L'ILE AUX LAPINS / RABBIT ISLAND
| Kep | Vis-a-vis in Kep (where the beaches are not very pretty) is the Rabbit island and its superb beach
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| Wat Phnom
| Phnom Penh | In the center of the city is Wat Phnom (translation: the hill of Mrs Phnom who is the founder of the town of Phnom-Penh) with her superb dial vegetable which indicates the hour in an original way to you.
You can walk there to back of elephant.
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| LE PALAIS ROYAL / ROYAL PALACE
| Phnom Penh | In the enclosure of the Palace is the Silver Pagoda that it is necessary for you absolutely to visit. On our photograph the Pavillon Napoleon III offered by Eugenie to king Norodom 1st at the time of the inauguration of Suez Canal
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| Otres Beach
| Sihanoukville / Kompong Som | A beach of Sihanoukville Otres Beach
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| Monument
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| Night Market/Marché de nuit
| Siem Reap | Located at the end of a small street perpendicular to the Sivutha boulevard you will discover The Night Market
A pleasant place decorated in a traditional way or you will be able to make your purchases (souvenirs and others) 3 p.m. at midnight
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| LE MARCHE KENDAL/KENDAL MARKET
| Siem Reap | Located along Bld Sivutha this market remains late open the evening, you will be able to make provision of souvenirs there
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| LE VIEUX MARCHE / OLD MARKET
| Siem Reap | Located at the edge of the river in centre town it is a market for the gifts but also a Kampuchean traditional market or you will be able to buy fruits, vegetables, a chicken or a pair of grips or a hammer
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| | LE PSAR LEU
| Siem Reap | It is the most important market of Siem Reap, you will find there of all, the prices are gravitational there
Only disadvantage it is a little far away from the centre town, it is located on the N°6 road in direction of Phnom-Penh
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| Shopping centres
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| ANGKOR MARKET
| Siem Reap | In the medium of Bld Sivutha is Angkor Market, it is a supermarket or you will find products local, of France, of Australia and several other sources
One of the least expensive and of stocked city best
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| Supermarché U shop
| Siem Reap | Supermarket open 24h/24h
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| Feastdays
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| Principaux évenements au Cambodge
| Phnom Penh | Events in Cambodia
Calendar of reoccurring events during a year in Cambodia.
Victory Day over Genocide (January 7)
This day marks the end of the Khmer Rouge Regime in 1979.
Chinese New Year (January or February)
Due to cultural influence of China and large number of Chinese people in Cambodia, the Chinese New Year is widely celebrated, especially in Phnom Penh.
Khmer New Year (Mid April)
Celebrating the turn of the year (according to ancient Khmer calendar, counting time from the day the Buddha died) and the end of the harvest, the three day festival of Khmer New Year is one of the main events of the year. All over the country the decorated Wats (temples) are extremely busy and the streets are filled with happy people singing, dancing and playing traditional games.
Royal Ploughing Day (May)
Celebrated at the beginning of the raining season, Royal Ploughing day marks the start of the rice-planting. A ceremonial furrow is ploughed in the park front of Phnom Penh National Museum , then the sacred cows are offered selected foods and foretellers predict the following year based on appetite of the cows. For this festival both men and women can be seen wearing brightly colored traditional Khmer costume.
Pchum Ben (September)
Cambodians believe that most of the living creatures are reincarnated at death, but some unfortunate souls will be trapped to the spirit world due to bad karma. Pchum Ben or the Festival of the Dead is a time when it is believed that these souls are released for fifteen days to search for their living relatives, who offer them food and meditate and pray to reduce the bad karma to enable the reincarnation of their ancestors.
Water Festival (October or November), this year november 23, 24 and 25 .
Starting from last full moon of October or early November, population of Phnom Penh is doubled when people all over the country come to celebrate the three day water festival. The festival marks the change of the flow of the Tonle Sap river, at this time Tonle Sap begins to flow back towards the sea, and it is celebrated with a boat race on the river and impressive fireworks. The festival is also celebrated in Siem Reap.
King Sihanouk's Birthday (October 31)
celebration of King Norodom Sihanouk's Birthday, mostly in the capital Phnom Penh where the Royal palace is open to public and at evening people gather to riverside for a grand fireworks display.
Independence Day (November 9)
9th of November 1953 Cambodia gained independence from France ; celebrations include a parade in front of the Royal Palace
Other events
Other yearly events and holidays include New Year's Day(January 1), International Women's Day (March 8), Labour Day (May 1), Visaka Bochea Day (May), International Children's Day (June 1), Queen Norodom Monineath's Birthday (June 18), Constitution Day and Recoronation of King Norodom Sihanouk (Sept 24), Anniversary of the Paris Peace Accord (Oct 23), UN Human Rights Day (Dec 10).
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| Strange
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| The Taste of France
| Phnom Penh | It is the advertizing which one can look at the Kampuchean TV : Alain Delon the taste of France
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| Health
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| Médecin français à Phnom-Penh
| Phnom Penh | Dr J.C GAREN
NAGA CLINIC International Medical Center
# 11 Street 254 PO Box 1155 PHNOM PENH
CAMBODIA
Tel: 855-23 211 300 or 11-811 175 (emergency, secretary)
Fax: 855-23-361 225
E-mail : info@nagaclinic.com
Web : http://www.nagaclinic.com/index.cfm
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| General information
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| ANGKOR VAT
| Siem Reap | Built, according to the myth, by the celestial Architect, Angkor Vat cristalise, at the beginning of the century, envoûtement and the fear of the Westerners vis-a-vis in the unknown worlds.
Angkor vat is the masterpiece of Suryarman II (1113-1150), often compared with Loui XIV for the glare of its reign. This qualified king made himself main from all southernmost Indo-China. At that time, the Khmer genius reaches a harmonious perfection.
Built in steps on an artificial hillock symbolizing the tops where the gods and the monarchs like themselves, the temple-mountain of Angkor Vat is chief-oeuvre architecture khmère (XIIe century).
In this immense site, the largest archaeological park of the world, it is good to walk along the alleys,to discover with the turning of the way a temple, a wall or a statue.
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| Angkor Thom
| Siem Reap | Angkor Thom (Angkor-the-large), the girded city of walls of four side kilometers and whose five doors are crowned amazing faces of Large Kings guards of Orients of cosmology Buddha but also with all the divinities of the empire.
Angkor Thom, framing it in the west and the east, they are two gigantic lengthened basin-tanks, Baray,who extend until the side limits from the site:on a side Eastern Baray, other Western Baray.In north another basin-tank of reduced size is, Baray of Preah Khan, a dependence of the vast temple in the east of which it is located and which gives him its name.
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| BAYON
| Siem Reap | Bayon, central mount Angkor Thom, at the end of XII E - beginning XIIIe century.
The temple with more than two hundred faces. Each one of them carries four colossal faces of Buddhism turned towards the four cardinal points. Bayon was built by Jayavarman VII, enthusiastic Buddhism and large builder of Angkor. In the center of the city of Angkor Thom draws up the royal temple of Bayon, roughcast of more than fifty turns relating, to their four faces, of the immense faces to the enigmatic smile.
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| BANTEAY SREI
| Siem Reap | Banteay Srei, Built before the end of the thousand-year-old first by a Brahman by Yajnavaraha and was entirely rebuilt in the Thirties. Characteristics of architecture khmère, its doors in geometrical rows.
Banteay Srei, the "Citadel of the women". Its admirable low-reliefs represent scenes of Râmâyana, large Indian who largely inspired the artists of the time angkorienne: hundreds of people or animals animate the borders of this temple.
With 35 kilometers in the North-East of Angkor Vat. One reaches the pink temple with the splendid low-reliefs.
In Banteay Srei, the Khmer sculptors reveal all the smoothnesses of their know-how. Posts, balusters, foliages, the walls become animated. The statues are in reliefs on the funds of sheets and flowers in flat part. The goddesses, out of pink sandstone, carry refined jewels and clothing. On the walls of the central sanctuary, Rowed, the hero of the "Râmâyânâ", the great poem epic Sanskrit, carries out its adventures. Banteay Srei, given up a long time, attracted the plunderers and the robbers.
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| Plan d'Angkor
| Siem Reap | Plan of the site of Angkor
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| Phnom Kulen
| Siem Reap | It dates from the 9th century, it is of inspiration Indhouiste and it was built under the reign of Jasovarman II.
It is located at 48 kms of Siem Reap.
Phnom Kulen is a mountain which culminates with 498 meters, located in the immediate western north of the archeological site of Angkor. It shelters the sources of the rivers (Khmer Stung) which bathe the site: Puok, Siemreap and Roluos.
It is of its top, site crowned since of old times, that the founder of civilization angkorienne, Jayavarman II, declared that "the country of Kampuchéa was from now on independent of Java".
Since, this mount, which contains the ruins of many temples, became the crowned sanctuary of Kampuchea par excellence and the source of the identity khmère.
One of the sites of the greatest interest is the river to the Thousand Linga, discovered in 1968: its course digs a sandstone solid mass in which multiples lingua, low-reliefs and inscriptions were carved.
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| Sambor Prei Kuk
| Kampong Thom | Date: 7ème siècle
Religion: Hindu Buddhist
reign: Isanavarman I
Style : Sambor Prei Kuk
About 30 km from Kompong Thom are the pre Angkorian ruins of Sambor Prei Kuk. These Temple were built in a time when Cambodia was still split into small, powerful kingdoms. It is most of what remains of one of these kingdoms: Tchenla.
It is composed of 176 monuments including 106 in a radius of 5 kms
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| Le Groupe de Roluos
| Siem Reap | Roluos is the site and ancient center of khmer civilization know as Hariharilaya. Nearly 50 years after Jayavarman II established his first capital on Mount Kulen in 802, inaugurating the Angkor Period, the king moved the capital to Harharilaya.
This may have been for defensive reasons. JayavarmanII died at Roulos in about 850 but it is likely his successors remained there until Yasovarman I moved the capital to Yasovarman's state temple. The Roluos group dates from the late 9th century and is the earliest site of the 600 year Angkorian period that is open to visitors. The three temples in this important group have similar architectural characteristics, decoration and construction methods. They are well worth visiting to guage the advances in classical Khmer art and to put Khmer later monuments in their proper context.
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| Phnom Bakheng
| Siem Reap | Date: Late 9th/Early 10th century
Religion : Hindu
Reign: Yasovarman I
Phnom Bakheng is located 1,300 m north of Angkor Vat and 400 m south of Angkor Thom. Enter and leave Phnom Bakheng by climbing a long, steep path with steps on the east side of the munument (heigh 67m). This was the first significant temple at Angkor and was built after Yasovarman I moved the state capitol from Roluos to Yasodharapura. Popular and very crowded at sunset.
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| Prasat Bei
| Siem Reap | Date: 10th century
Religion: Hindu
Reign: Yasovarman I
Style: Bakheng
Three brick towers are aligned north south and open to the east. They stand on a common laterite platform of 24m by 9,6m. The northern tower is incomplete and, like thr southern, its height is truncated just above the doors.
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| Prasat Phnom Krom
| Siem Reap | Date: late 9th/early 10th century
Religion : Hindu
Reign: Yasovarman I
Style: Bakheng
Prast phnom Krom is approximately 12 km southwest of Siem Reap, near the north end of the Tone Sap lake. It is located on a mountain 137 m high. Climb the steep stairs and curved path through a modern temple complex at the top of the hill. The walk affords a fine view on the lake and surronding area. It was built near the end of the 9th century and the beginning of the 10th century and dedicated to the Hindu Trinity: Shiva,Visnu and Brahma. It is Fashioned in the Prasat Bakheng architectural style.
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| Prasat Phnom Bok
| Siem Reap | Date: Late 9th/early 10th century
Religion: Hindu (Shivaism)
Reign: Yasovarman I
Style: Bakheng
The gigantic ling (phallus), over 2m high, is in bad repair bit the grandeur is still there on the thicket-coveredYoni. The carvings of the female deities on the sanctuary walls, wearing panung with wrinkles like pleated skirts, is a style not found in other periods.Archaeolpgists named this style of art the Bakheng style.As the temple is on the mountain top the scenery stretches out for many miles around you.
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| L'étang royal / Royal Pond
| Siem Reap | The East Pond of the Royal Palace is located immediately to the east of the Large Pond of Angkor Thom. It is 40 m long by 20 m wide, and like the Large Pond, is also lined with standstones.
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| Srah Srang
| Siem Reap | Srah Srang is a baray at Angkor, Cambodia, located south of the East Baray and east of Banteay Kdei. It was constructed in the mid-10th century, and modified in the 12th or 13th century. The landing stage at the west end of the baray, opposite the entrance to Banteay Kdei, is a popular site for viewing the sunrise.
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| Prasat Koh Ker
| Preah Vear Province | Constructed mid 10 th century
Religion : Hindu
King Jayavarman IV
Location :
130 km in North East of Siem Reap, are approximately two hours and half of road.
Comments :
In the beginning of the 10° century, for an unknown reason, the King Jayavarman IV moved the Khmer capital from Roluos towards Kohker. During twenty years, this site was the object of a very great number of constructions and Prasat Thom which one usually visits is only one very small part of immense Kohker.
Prasat Thom is appeared as very large and majestic pyramid of seven levels whose only last stage is damaged.
The staircases are extremely abrupt and required the addition of wooden staircases to be practicable and the immense sight on the surrounding countryside that one has at the top of this pyramid is a reward for those which will have climbed!
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| Tep Pranam
| Siem Reap | Date: 9th century
Religion: Buddhist
reign: Yasovarman I
Style: mixed
Tep Pranam is located near Angkor Thom. The building has been extensively damaged and only the base and a huge image of the Buddha remain.
Outstanding features:
_A statue of Simha's inclining head at the entrance to the Tep Pranam Temple.
_The huge Buddha image is believed to have been built during Jayavarman VII's reign using left-over stones from the construction.
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| Thma Bay Kaek
| Siem Reap | Date: 10th century
Religion: Shivaism
Reign: Yasovarman I
Style Bakheng
These are the remains syuated between the south moat of Angkor Thom and Baksei Chamkrong, to the north of this last monument and 125m west of the road. An excavation of the site discovered, under the paving of the sanctuary chamber, an intact sacred deposit composed of a quincunx of fives gold leaves. The larger central leaf was engraved with the outline of a standing bull: The traditional mount of Shiva.
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| Baksei Chamkrong
| Siem Reap | Date: Early/middle 10th century
Religion: Hindu
Reign: Harshavarman I
Style: Bakheng
Baksei Chamkrong is located just north of Phnom Bakheng, a short distance between Angkor Vat and the south gate of Angkor Thom. The name of this temple comes from a legend in which the king was trying to flee Angkor while it was under siege. Suddenly a huge bird swooped down and sheltered the king under its wings.
It consists of a single-tower design on a square, four-tiered platform that rises to a height of 12m.
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| Prasat Kravan
| Siem Reap | Dedicated to the god Vishnu, this temple was built in 921 and restored there're about forty year. Completely built in bricks of clay, it is famous by its numerous representations of the god Vishnu. The northerly towers are decorated with low-reliefs representing the goddess Lakshmi, the Vishnu's wife.
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| Mebon occidental / East Mebon
| Siem Reap | Rajendravarman II dedicated the structure to his parents in 952. The red temple-mountain has three levels topped with five towers. At sunset the monument takes on a reddish glow. The sandstone elephants are in fine condition as well.
In the now dry East Baray (7 x 1.8 km), the structure was formerly an island accessible only by boat. The lintels of the towers are particularly exquisite. Pre Rup and the Eastern Mebon were the last brick monuments built.
Five hundred metres north of Pre Rup, the 16th kilometre boundary stone stands at the southern edge of the large expanse of water known as the eastern baray. Measuring two kilometres north-south by seven kilometres east-west, it is enclosed by an earth embankment and marked at each of its four corners with a stele set in a shelter. Identified as the "Eastern Lake" by Tcheou Ta-Kouan and the "Yasodharatataka" on the inscriptions, it was realised during the reign of Yasovarman towards the end of the 9th century and supplied by the Stung Siem Reap.
This vast reservoir, that served to regulate the flow of the river and to irrigate the surrounding plain, is today given over to rice fields, though if one is to judge by the laterite steps which surround the small island of the Mebon, its original depth was three metres and its volume must have been 40 million cubic metres. Since a large part of it is now silted up there must have been some disaster or rupture of a dike to have caused its rapid choking rather than its slow sedimentation. Whatever the cause, its centre was marked by a small island of 120 metres across where the temple of the Mebon was raised - on which the main entry pavilion of the Royal Palace of Angkor Thom and the Victory Gate were subsequently aligned.
The Mebon has all the characteristics of a "temple-mountain" symbolising the Meru - but where there should have been the tiered pyramid inside two concentric enclosing walls, here there is instead a simple three metre high platform carrying the quincunx of towers. Perhaps the builders were wary of putting too much burden on such a small mound of earth entirely surrounded by water? Whatever the reason, in allowing a more open composition and in reducing the movement of pilgrims to a minimum - since it was only accessible by boat - such an arrangement must have considerably eased the circulation.
Several inscriptions found in the vicinity as well as the foundation stele - dated 952 and so only nine years before Pre Rup - describe the placing in the various sanctuaries of the linga Shri Rajendresvara, of several idols - notably of Shiva and Parvati "in the likeness of the mother and the father" of king Rajendravarman, and of Vishnou with Brahma - and of eight lingas of the god in eight forms (in the eight small towers of the surrounding court). The Mebon belongs therefore to the series of temples consecrated to the memory of deified parents, - and a very fine statue of a feminine divinity found during the course of clearing and returned to the sculpture storeroom would seem to be the Parvati of the inscription.
Each axis is marked by a laterite embarkation terrace, framed by two sitting lions and forming projections from the retaining wall, itself supported on tiers. A border of five metres surrounds the external enclosure wall which, by the pleasing arrangement of its setting back, leaves sufficient space in front of each of the four gopuras. These are in laterite and sandstone - with no remains of either vaults or roofs - and cruciform in plan with three passageways and central sandstone porticoes. The inscribed stele is to be found on the right on entering.
A series of galleries with laterite walls pierced by variously arranged balustered windows and with sandstone porticoes follows the interior of the enclosure wall, serving as meditation or rest rooms. They are, as at Pre Rup, the precursor of the continuous galleries that were soon to make their appearance in the monuments. Except for in the southern part, there are but a few remains of these buildings, whose roof covering was in timber and tiles. Perhaps the materials were put to some other use after their demolition.
A 2m.40 high laterite retaining wall with a 2m.00 surrounding border defines the next level (first enclosure) which carries a low enclosing wall. One should not forget to admire, standing at the four corners of the platform of the first and second enclosures, the handsome monolithic elephants, treated in realistic fashion and showing every detail of their harnesses. The best preserved are to be found to the south-west, and are more impressive than those at Bakong.
Ahead of the axial stairways, flanked by lions, a return in the enclosure wall again frames each gopura - except for the western where the border has been left wider. The building itself, in laterite and brick, formed a towered passageway, though this has virtually collapsed. The western lintel of the east gopura shows Krishna wrestling with the naga.
Within the large courtyard of the first enclosure, eight small brick towers - two on each side - open to the east. Each sheltered a linga. They have finely detailed octagonal colonnettes with two bands, and lintels with figurines incorporated into a foliate decoration. To the east are three rectangular buildings in laterite - two to the south of the axis that contained in one a "stone of the nine planets" and the other a "stone of the seven ascetics", and a single one to the north. They open to the west like the "library" buildings, and traces of brickwork remaining above the cornice suggest that they were vaulted in brick despite their width. In the north-west and south-west corners are two similar buildings - without windows - but opening to the east.
The upper platform carrying the five towers is surrounded by a sandstone wall forming a plainly moulded base of 3m.00 in height. Another plinth of 1m.90, but which is ornate, allows the central sanctuary to dominate the four others. Lions embellish the stairways.
The towers are built in bricks which are much smaller than those at Pre Rup - 22cm x 13cm x 5.5cm - and constructed without mortar in the usual manner. Figures - all masculine except for the two western towers - are outlined on the corner piers. All were covered with a sculpted lime-based mortar that is mentioned in one of the inscriptions, but of which there remains no trace, despite the measure taken of boring small holes in the brickwork to aid adhesion.
The towers open to the east, with the other three false doors in sandstone. The sanctuary chamber measures 4m.00 in the central and 2m.80 in the corner towers. The one to the south-east still contains an interesting circular pedestal of the type already found at Phnom Bok and at Phnom Krom, where it carried a statue of Brahma.
The ornamentation is similar in many ways to Pre Rup, and all the sculpted sandstone elements are remarkable - even though the decoration remains slightly affected and is occasionally reminiscent in its complexity of certain failings in the Baroque style. The false doors are delightful with their lattice-work pattern and banded motifs set with tiny figurines.
It has been possible to secure the lintels in place nearly everywhere during the course of the works. These are far better than those at Pre Rup and are handled with real craftsmanship, vigour and imagination.
On the central tower, one should particularly note; - to the east, Indra on a three headed elephant with small cavaliers on the branches and flights of figures being disgorged by makaras, under a small frieze of figures in meditation, - to the west, Skanda the god of war on his peacock with a line of figures holding lotus flowers - and to the south, Shiva on the sacred bull Nandin.
Then on the tower of the north-west corner, east side, - the curious motif of Ganesha sitting astride his trunk that he has transformed into a mount.
On the tower of the south-east corner, north side, - the head of a monster devouring an elephant. On the west gopura of the first enclosure, east side, - Vishnou in the form of a man-lion, clawing the king of the Asuras who dared to challenge him. On the building of the north-east corner of the first enclosure, west side, - Lakshmi between two elephants who, with their raised trunks, spray her with lustral wa
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| Prasat Pre Rup
| Siem Reap | Date: Middle 10th century
Rekigion: hindu
Reign: Rajendravarman II
Style: Pre Rup
The temple is almost identical in style to the East Mebon although it was built several years later, following the return from Koh Ker to Angkor. Khmers believe this temple to have funerary associations. The name Pre Rup recalls one of the rituals of cremation in which the silhouette of the body of the deceased, outlined with his/her own ashes, is successivly moved through different orientations.Some archaeologiests believe that the large vat, located at the base of the eastern stairway to the central area, was used at cremations.
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| Prasat Bat Chum
| Siem Reap | Built in the middle of the 10th Century
by Kavindrarimathana, during the reign of King Rajendravarman II (reigned 944-968)
Prasat Bat Chum is a small and rather difficult to reach temple in Angkor. It was built for King Rajendravarman by Kavindrarimathana, the same architect who designed the king's palace as well as the temple of East Mebon, and also probably had a hand in Pre Rup. Kavindrarimathana is the only ancient Khmer architect whose name is known. To his own credit, he also designed Srah Srang.
I introduced Prasat Bat Chum to my tuk tuk driver Mr Han. Although he has not been to it, I told him where it should be, and insisted on searching for it. At first he was reluctant, but later helped to drive me on the lane that I pointed out, until we reached the temple.
Prasat Bat Chum consists of three brick towers, or prasat. They sit on a platform facing east. You can catch a glimpse of them from the main road that runs between Srah Srang and Prasat Kravan. From Srah Srang to Prasat Kravan, be on the look out for three brick towers (as seen on this page), and turn left into the lane that leads to it.
When I visited, the northern prasat was undergoing restoration, and hence was engulfed in scaffolds. I observed that the brick towers had stone door frames, lintels and octagonal colonettes, all similar to those found at Prasat Kravan. In front of the temple are the stone guardian lions. On each tower are inscriptions which, I learned afterwards, were poems of praise to the builder, and signed by different persons. And curiously, all the three inscriptions conclude with a sort of "ancient no parking sign", requesting that elephant owners prevent their animals from trampling on dykes and damaging them.
How to go to Prasat Bat Chum
Prasat Bat Chum is located aboout 400 meters south of Srah Srang. Look for a turning on the left. From the opposite direction, it is 300 meters north of Prasat Kravan, with the turning on the right. The turning in leads into an unpaved road which makes a turning to the left after about 300 meters before turning left again. If you need a reliable tuk tuk driver, contact the tuk tuk driver who drove me, Mr Han, (see contact below) to see if he is available to take you there. Hopefully he still remembers how to go there!
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| Phimeanakas
| Siem Reap | Phimeanakas, the State Temple of Suryavarman I (1002-1049), is located in the middle of Angkor Thom. The temple is aligned with Jayavarman VII's Victory Gate. The temple is relatively small , but impressively rises to a height of about 40m.
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| Prasat Ta Keo
| Siem Reap | Built between 968 and 1001, this temple of more than 50 m of height is the first one of Angkor, built completely for Wills. The decorations were never finished because carving in wills was very hard. This temple is typical Angkor's " temples-mountains ".
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| Kleangs
| Siem Reap | Rectangular sandstone buildings set opposite the Terrace of Elephants, behind the Prasat Suor Prat. ‘Kleang’ means ‘storeroom’ but it is unlikely that this was the function of the structures. A royal oath of allegiance is carved into the doorway of one Kleang indicating that they may have served as reception areas or even housing for visiting noblemen and ambassadors. The North Kleang was built in wood under Rajendravarman II and then rebuilt in stone by Jayavarman V, probably before the construction of the South Kleang. The Kleangs are unremarkable upon close inspection but picturesque from a distance, standing among the Prasat Suor Prat. Best photographed in the afternoon.
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| Chau Say Tevoda
| Siem Reap | Chau Say Tevoda is a temple at Angkor, Cambodia. It is located just east of Angkor Thom, across the Victory Way from Thommanon (it pre-dates the former and post-dates the latter). Built in the mid-12th century, it is a Hindu temple in the Angkor Wat style. As of 2005 it was under restoration by a Chinese team, and access was restricted.
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| Mebon ouest / West Mebon
| Siem Reap | The West Mebon is a temple at Angkor, Cambodia, located in the center of the West Baray, the largest reservoir of the Angkor area. Its date of construction is not known, but evidence suggests the 11th Century during the reign of King Suryavarman I or Udayadityavarman II. In the dry season today, it is reachable by land. In rainy season, the waters of the 7,800-meter-long baray rise and the temple, located on a site higher than the baray's floor, becomes an island. Khmer architects typically surrounded temples with moats that represent the Hindu sea of creation. The West Mebon, located amid waters so vast that they can seem like a real sea, takes this religious symbolism to the ultimate level.
West Mebon from the water
West Mebon from the water
The temple was built to a square design, with sides measuring about 100 meters. Each side had three tower-passages crowned with stone lotus flowers and arrayed about 28 meters apart. In the center of the square was a stone platform linked to the eastern wall by a laterite and sandstone causeway. Today the platform, causeway and much of the east wall and towers remain; the other sides are largely gone, though their outlines in stone are visible when the baray's waters are low. There is no central sanctuary to be seen, though the platform may have supported some comparatively small structure in times past.
Remaining east wall and towers
Remaining east wall and towers
In 1936, the West Mebon yielded up the largest known bronze sculpture in Khmer art, a fragment of the reclining Hindu god Vishnu. The fragment includes the god's head, upper torso and two right arms. A local villager is said to have dreamt that an image of the Buddha was buried in the West Mebon and wished to be freed from the soil. Subsequent digging unearthed the statue of Vishnu. The Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan, who visited Angkor at the end of the 13th Century, wrote that the East Mebon, the temple at the center of the East Baray, another large reservoir in the Angkor area, had a large image of Buddha with water spurting from its navel. Many scholars believe that Zhou mistook the Vishnu statue for the Buddha image and misrecorded its location. The statue, which in complete form would have measured about six meters long, entered the collection of the National Museum in Phnom Penh. It has also been shown abroad, including in Washington D.C.
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| Prasat Baphoun
| Siem Reap | Prasat Baphoun is built in middle of 11th century by King Udayadityavarman II, for Brahmanic (Shiva), built from
sandstone, located in Siem Reap.
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| Prasat Top ( Ouest / West )
| Siem Reap | The presumably original structures of this temple - a single sanctuary atop a laterite platform - are thought to date to the 10th century, though a 9th century inscription was also discovered here. The temple that we see today, inventoried as "Monument 486", is largely the result of successive transformations made for the Buddhist cult, beginning around the 13th century and continuing at least into the 17th.
Over the course of this period the laterite platform was refaced with sandstone, the existent sanctuary reconstructed using 10th-century decorative elements (pink sandstone lintels and columns). Two additional towers were erected, one to the north and the other to the south of what then became the central structure. The ensemble was abundantly sculpted with Buddhist imagery.
Of particular note are the standing Buddhas still somewhat visible on the collapsed facades of the northern tower. Other sculpture, primarily on architectural elements from the three towers, has been arranged by maintenance teams around the perimeter of the temple. The sandstone platform extending in front of the central tower, along with the statue pedestal built at its western end and scattered rooftile fragments, are all that remain of the Buddhist worship hall (vihear) once standing here, its wooden superstructure having long since perished.
As the fundamental ritual act in the appropriation of this ancient site for Theravada Buddhism in the centuries following the transfer of the capital from Angkor, the temple's sacred terrain was delimited at each of the eight cardinal and intercardinal points by double border stones (seima); though partially buried today, some of these leaf-shaped sculptures can still be seen in their original positions.
Western Prasat Top has a counterpart in Eastern Prasat Top that is found near the road to the Victory Gate. This monument, however, was not Buddhist but rather the last Brahmanic temple constructed by Jayavarman VIII in honour of a high-ranking priest and his mother.
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| Beng Melea
| Siem Reap | It is one of the largest ensemble in the Angkor region. It is unquestionably one of the most beautiful Angkorian sites, and
this beauty may be partly derived from the merciless struggle of nature against the stones.
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| Thommanon
| Siem Reap | Thommanon is a small temple built at the end of Suryavarman II's reign, around the middle of the 12th century. It is nearly symmetrical to Chau Say Tevoda, another of Suryavarman's temples that stands nearby. Although the placement of Thommanon and Chau Say Tevoda neatly frame the east causeway to the Angkor Thom complex, this was probably not the original intention, since in Suryavarman's time the center of the capital was closer to Angkor Wat. Thommanon is architecturally more advanced than its predecessors. The designers took advantage of the natural qualities of sandstone, rather than simply carving it in imitation of wood.
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| Prasat Wat Athvea
| Siem Reap | Wat Athvea (At wee ah) one of two temples that face west. Angkor is the other. Located between the Tonle Sap Lake and Siem Reap it's a nice get away from many of the overcrowded tourist sites
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| Kbal Spean
| Siem Reap | Commonly known as the valley of a 1000 Lingas, Kbal Spean: is set deep in the jungle to the north east of Angkor. A 45 minute steep walk takes you to the river and waterfalls where hundreds of phalluses are carved on the riverbed.
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| Prasat Prei
| Siem Reap |
Small,temple ruins in a forest setting near Neak Pean. Remains of a gopura , the central tower and halls, and the vestiges of a library and surrounding wall. Some apsara and lintel carvings. A quiet, peaceful location..
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| Prasat Preah Khan
| Siem Reap | Preah Khan is a temple at Angkor, Cambodia, built in the 12th century for King Jayavarman VII. It is located northeast of Angkor Thom and just west of the Jayatataka baray, with which it was associated. It was the centre of a substantial organisation, with almost 100,000 officials and servants. The temple is flat in design, with a basic plan of successive rectangular galleries around a Buddhist sanctuary complicated by Hindu satellite temples and numerous later additions. Like the nearby Ta Prohm, Preah Khan has been left largely unrestored, with numerous trees and other vegetation growing among the ruins.
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| Banteay Chmar
| Banteay Meancheay Province | 61 km from Sisophon and to the north-west of Angkor, this was one of the capitals of Jayavarman II. It was rebuilt during the reign of king Jayavarman VII and dedicated to his son, who was killed in battle.
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| Prasat Neak Pean
| Siem Reap | Built in XIIth century under Jayavarman VII's administration, a big pond surrounded with stairs and a sanctuary in the centre on a small island. The pilgrims came to the time there to make it their sacred ablutions. 4 overflows symbolize 4 rivers which took their source on the same lake meadows of the Kailash Mountain in the Tibet.
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| La Terrasse des éléphants / Elephant Terrace
| Siem Reap | Built at the beginning of the XIIIth century this terrace in border of Jayavarman VII th royal palace, reached 350 m of length. it was certainly built to attend the spectacles given onto the big place. The elephants sculptured on a part of walls (recently restored) gave their name to the place
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| Ta Prohm
| Siem Reap | Foundation and Expansion
After ascending the throne of Cambodia in 1181 A.D., Jayavarman VII embarked on a massive program of construction and public works. Ta Prohm was one of the first temples founded pursuant to that program. The stele commemorating the foundation gives a date of 1186 A.D.[1]
The original name of the temple now known as Ta Prohm ("ancestor Brahma") was Rajavihara ("royal temple"). Jayavarman VII constructed it in honor of his family. The temple's main image, representing Prajnaparamita, the personification of wisdom, was modelled on the king's mother. The northern and southern satellite temples in the third enclosure were dedicated to the king's guru and his elder brother respectively. As such, Ta Prohm formed a complementary pair with the temple monastery of Preah Khan, dedicated in 1191 A.D., the main image of which represented Lokesvara, the Bodhisattva of compassion, as modelled on the king's father.[2]
Expansions and additions to Ta Prohm continued as late as the rule of Srindravarman at the end of the 13th century. The temple's stele recorded that the site was home to more than 12,500 people (including 18 high priests and 615 dancers), with a further 80,000 in surrounding villages helping to supply the institution. The stele also notes that the temple amassed considerable riches, including gold, pearls and silks.[3]
[edit] Abandonment and Restoration
After the fall of the Khmer empire in the 15th century, the temple of Ta Prohm fell into neglect for centuries. When the effort to conserve and restore the temples of Angkor began in the early 20th century, the École française d'Extrême-Orient decided that Ta Prohm would be left largely as it had been found as a "concession to the general taste for the picturesque." According to Glaize, Ta Prohm was singled out because it was "one of the most imposing [temples] and the one which had best merged with the jungle, but not yet to the point of becoming a part of it".[4] Nevertheless much work has been done to stabilize the ruins, to permit access, and to maintain "this condition of apparent neglect"[5]
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| Banteay Kdei
| Siem Reap | Banteay Kdei is a temple at Angkor, Cambodia. It is located southeast of Ta Prohm and east of Angkor Thom. Built in the late 12th to early 13th centuries, it is a Buddhist temple in the Bayon style, similar in plan to Ta Prohm and Preah Khan.
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| Banteay Samre
| Siem Reap | Banteay Samré is a temple at Angkor, Cambodia located east of the East Baray. Built under Suryavarman II and Yasovarman II in the early 12th century, it is a Hindu temple in the Angkor Wat style.
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| Preah Paliley
| Siem Reap | Preah Palilay is a temple at Angkor, Cambodia. It is located in Angkor Thom, 400 m north of Phimeanakas. Built in the 13th or 14th century, it is a Buddhist temple (although with some Hindu imagery) in the Bayon style. Its most distinctive feature is its chimney-shaped tower.
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| Prasat Banteay Prei
| Siem Reap | One hundred and fifty metres north of Prasat Prei, an opening in what is left of the external laterite enclosure wall of Banteay Prei gives access to the remains of a terrace, bordered by naga-balustrades, crossing a moat.
A small and low sandstone gopura, covered in a crossing of vaults, presents all the characteristics of the Bayon style. It divides the laterite wall of the 75 by 65 metre second enclosure to the east. Further on, a 30 by 25 metre sandstone gallery surrounds the internal court. Its four gopuras - still in the same style - form towers with a single upper tier and a crowning motif. They are flanked by secondary doors, while the corners are marked by small low pavilions. The gallery vault has a short span and is particularly shallow. The walls, in terms of decoration, are restrained.
Only half of the central sanctuary superstructure, with its four upper tiers, remains standing. Cruciform in plan it has four vestibules which are increased in width externally by the presence of false half-vaults to either side. The cruciform sanctuary chamber is 1m.90 across at its centre and open to the four cardinal points. The frontons have been defaced and the false windows here have balusters without blinds.
In the south-west quarter of the courtyard stands one of the isolated standing pillars with a top tenon, such as one finds in most temples of this period. In the south-east corner, where the "library" would normally be found, a small rectangular pit has been excavated and lined with laterite. Its function remains a mystery.
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| Prasat Krol Ko
| Siem Reap | KROL KO
The shed of the oxen
Prasat Krol Ko is located in the northwest of Neak Pean, 100 meters from the road. A enter and leave from the east. It was built in late 12th century-early 13th century by king Jayavarman VII, in Buddhist religion with following to Bayon style art.
BACKGROUND
The main items of interest at Krol Ko are the pediments on the ground Two out standing ones are a bodhisattva Avalokitesvara standing on a lotus flanked by devotees and a strongly modeled scene of Krsna lifting Mount Govardhana to shelter the shepherds.
LAYOUT
Kro Ko is a single tower monument with two enclosing walls built of laterite with an entry tower at the east and a moat with steps. There is a library built of laterite and sandstone opening to the west on the left of the interior courtyard. The Central Sanctuary stands on a terrace in the shape of a cross.
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| Prasat Ta Som
| Siem Reap | Buddhist temple dedicated to the memory of the Kings's ancestors, the Ta Som temple is especially known by its towers with faces. As Ta Phrom, it is partially invaded by the jungle. It was built from 1186.
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| Preah Pithu
| Siem Reap | Preah Pithu is a group of five temples at Angkor, Cambodia, located in Angkor Thom east of the Terrace of the Elephants. The temples are identified by letter: T U V W and X. X is Buddhist, the others Hindu.
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| Chapelle de l'hôpital / Chapel of the Hospital
| Siem Reap | 102 hospitals were built throughout the empire under Jayavarman VII. The hospital itself was probably constructed of perishable materials such as wood and bamboo, which has long since disappeared, leaving only the sandstone hospital temple or ‘chapel’ for the ages. This temple and the one at Ta Prohm Kel opposite Angkor Wat offer two examples of hospital temples. Constructed of sandstone, this Chapel of the Hospital is in rough condition but some carvings are still visible. A quiet, meditative spot, easily accessible but visited by few tourists.
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| Prasat Ta Nei
| Siem Reap | Ta Nei was set up under Jayavarman VII, about the years 1200. Located at 800 meters in the north of Ta Keo, this temple little visited invaded by the vegetation has airs of Ta Prohm, in less spectacular.
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| Prasat Top ( côté est) / Prasat Top (East)
| Siem Reap | Of some historical importance, this small tower is located in Angkor Thom and was the final Brahmanic temple constructed in Angkor Thom during the Angkorian era. Prasat Top was built during a brief revival of the Hindu faith in the period following the death of Jayavarman VII.
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| Les tours de Suor Prat / Suor Prat Towers
| Siem Reap | The Prasats Suor Prat are the twelve rugged looking towers in laterite and sandstone which line the eastern side of the royal square in Angkor Thom and the start of the road leading to the Victory Gate, on either side of which they are symmetrically arranged. Their function remains unknown, since their romantic name, which corresponds to the local belief that they were used to support a high wire stretched between them for acrobatics during certain festivals, is probably irrelevant. The explanation of their use given by Tcheou Ta-Kouan, though picturesque, is also hardly adequate:- "In front of the palace there are twelve small stone towers. When two men dispute over some unknown matter, each of the contestants is forced to sit in one of them while the relatives stand watch at the base. After three or four days, he who is wrong shows it by suffering some illness - ulcers, or catarrh, or malignant fever - while the other remains in perfect health. Thus right or wrong is determined by what is called 'divine judgement'..."
The character of these towers is all the more puzzling since, with balustered windows on three of their sides, they do not correspond to the usual form of sanctuary, even though several statues were found there during clearing works. Their exact use remains therefore a mystery.
Square in plan, they were built in laterite, crudely finished inside and have two upper tiers, the higher of which is covered in a barrel-formed vault and has two gable ends. Only the frames of the openings, the lintels and the frontons are in sandstone, though they remain in rough form with only some of the frontons having the sketched outlines of nagas' curves mounted on flaming leaves and foliated scrolls decorated with the small lions which are typical of the 12th century. There is no trace of any plaster, and the collection gives the impression of being unfinished, which is only typical of later buildings. Antefixes sculpted with ascetics or nagas - which are not so typical - have been found in several places. The entrance doors, opening towards the royal terrace and the road to the Victory Gate and situated at a lower level than the interior of the towers, have been adjusted during the forming of a kind of raised terrace which partially blocked them for the length of the square. This embankment must have been formed at a later date.
On either side of the road leading to the Victory Gate, in a corner defined by the Prasats Suor Prat, is a large pool of 80 metres by 60 bordered with steps. Behind the southern is a well-preserved Buddhist terrace, modified to take the large statue of the "Buddha-King", discovered by Mr Trouvé in 1933 down the central well of the Bayon.
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| Ta Phrom Kel
| Siem Reap | Location:
At 200 meters only and almost opposite the principal entry of Angkor Wat, a little more in north.
You can go there walking from Angkor Wat.
Few people approach this small ruin of which there does not remain large-thing and it is a shame, it is full with charm.
This small temple was the vault of one of the 102 hospitals built by Jayavarman VII.
Inscriptions teach us that it is related to the legend of the paralysed beggar who was cured at this place and flew away by overlapping the horse of Indra.
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| Spean Thma
| Siem Reap | , Cambodia is known as the bridge of stone west of Ta Keo. It is one of the few Khmer empire era bridge to have survived to the modern day.
It was built on the former path of the Siem Reap river between Angkor Thom and the eastern baray and probably rebuilt after the khmer period (around 15th century). Il includes a lot of reused sandstone blocks.
The 14 narrow arches are 1.10 m wide.
Several other bridges on the same models are visible: in the Angkor site (Spean Memai) and at several locations of the former empire. On the road from Angkor to Beng Mealea, the Spean Praptos is one of the longest with 25 arches.
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