Terrace Rahal

Located on the western side of Beng Mealea’s baray, or Rahal Baray as early French archeologists recorded it, is a very large cruciform sandstone terrace that connects to the eastern entrance of Beng Mealea via a bollarded causeway.

At a guess, it is around 70 m long on its east-west axis and 40m wide in places on its north-south axis of the cruciform. It is over one meter high, and atop the platform has a series of low-height stepped rises to an unknown central feature.

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Living in Asia for over a decade and now residing in beautiful Siem Reap. Rodney Charles L'Huillier has spent over seven years in Cambodia and is the author of Ancient Cambodia (2024) and Essential Siem Reap (2017, 2019). Contact via [email protected] - more..

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