Ancient Remains & Temples

Wat Chambok Rangsei

Contemporary monastery and pagoda located near the Kampong Chhnang and Pursat border.

Wat Phnom Borvong

Contemporary monastery and pagoda located atop Phnom Borvong, about 12 km south of Pursat. The mountaintop features several attractions, all related to the pagoda. On there north side there is a monastery and pagoda with several buildings in development including a meditation area. Just south of that is a grand Chedi. A little to the … Read more

Wat Phnom Baktra

Contemporary monastery and pagoda located 15 km south of Pursat. It has recently been renewed and is quite pretty with a beautiful location on the mountainside.

Wat Sbov Rik

Contemporary monastery and pagoda located 25 km south of Pursat. It is one of the older pagodas in the area and features notable pediments along with murals on its inner walls.

Wat Keo Vichey  

Contemporary monastery and pagoda located 7km north of Pursat city. On our visit in Aug 2023 there is a massively tall construction underway behind the pagoda, let’s wait to see what it becomes.

Wat Banteay Dei 

Located in central Pursat city, it’s an older pagoda retaining its original inner murals, decorative pediments, and features. I am not sure of its exact foundation date, perhaps what we see dates to around the mid-1900s. The pagoda also features a beautifully decorated balan (pedestal for the Buddha) and outside, an equally beautifully decorated stupa. … Read more

Wat Svay Bopha (Battambang)

A contemporary monastery and pagoda located in Moung Russey Commune, around 7 km west of Battambang-Pursat Border city along the RN 5. There is a new pagoda under construction and the older pagoda has been preserved. The pagoda was constructed with donations from the US-based Khmer community according to the plaque on the roof, although … Read more

Wat Po Lanka (Battambang)

Also recorded as Wat Pothi Lanka, is a contemporary monastery and pagoda located around 20 km east of Battambang city along the RN 5. The pagoda has recently been renewed and at the main entrance, the original gate has been preserved. Interestingly, to the left of the pagoda, is a large pen with two ostriches. … Read more

Wat Kampong Preah (Battambang)

Contemporary monastery and pagoda located 15 km east of Battambang city along the RN 5. The pagoda has a style of the mid-1900s and the wood-pillared sermon hall has a plaque noting the monastery’s foundation in 1915. If the pagoda itself dates back to that time then it is surprisingly well preserved. Regardless, the wood-columned … Read more

Wat Kong Kang

Located at the southern end of Pailin city, and at the foothill of Phnom Yat, Wat Kong Kang is pagoda and monastery dating back to 1942. The pagoda, like the constructions atop Phnom Yat was built by the Kula people who lived here in the 1900s, working as gem traders. Monks had to abandon the … Read more

Wat Koh Keo (Battambang)

Contemporary monastery and pagoda located 4km east of Battambang city and just south of the RN 5 in Anlong Vil Village. It features two pagodas, one larger contemporary pagoda and one dating from the late-1800s – early 1900s. The older pagoda has been restored in recent times and it is demarcated by older-style stone sema … Read more

Wat Moni Reaksmey (& Crocodile Mountain Cave)

A contemporary pagoda located on the western foothill west of Phnom Krapeau (or Crocodile Mountain), about 15km south of Battambang. It is also the site of the Crocodile Cave. There is a trail leading to the site that comes off the Kampong Muoy Road just west of Wat Phnom Andoeuk and then a flight of … Read more

Wat Phnom Andoeuk

Also known as Turtle Mountain Pagoda, it is west of Phnom Sampov and on the north foothill of Phnom Krapeau (or Crocodile Mountain), about 15km south of Battambang. It is a quiet and peaceful place with lush landscaped grounds and a trail that winds around and up the small hill to the pagoda. While the … Read more

Wat Khsach Pouy 

Contemporary monastery and pagoda located around 7km south of Battambang central and on the west of the Sangker River.

Wat Khveng

Contemporary monastery and pagoda located on the east side of the Sangker River and about 5km south of Battambang city. It’s noted as having been founded around or before the 1800s. Unusually, the pagoda we see today, built in recent times, sits on a north-south axis as opposed the the usual east-west axis.

Wat Chheu Khmao (Battambang)

Located on the south bank of the Sangker River and in the floodplains of the great Tonle Sap lake, is a wondrous Buddhist monastery with two pagodas. The older wooden pagoda, raised on stilts is also known as Blackwood temple or Black Tree pagoda. The site is noted as having been founded in the late … Read more

Wat Sampov

Contemporary monastery and pagoda located on the southwest side of Battambang city.

Wat Kan Doeng

Contemporary monastery and pagoda located on the southwest side of Battambang city. It features a contemporary pagoda and an older pagoda, both are quite attractive and characterful. The older pagoda, is of the traditional Battambang style of the mid to late 1900s. Sansdone plinths and a sandstone pedestal from an ancient temple are also seen … Read more

Wat Toul Ta Ek

Contemporary monastery and pagoda located on the west side of Battambang city. It’s very ornately decorated with a low-height outer wall rendered with Buddhist Angkorian-era iconography, and the exterior pagoda walls are decorated with murals depicting local Buddhist narratives.

Wat Ta Mem

Contemporary monastery and pagoda, located on the east side of the Sangker River and about 4km south of Battambang city. The pagoda is a contemporary double-story while most interesting are the monumental gates of the original pagoda, three on a north-south axis, which were under restoration on our last visit in Aug 2023.

Wat Buon Muk

Contemporary monastery and pagoda located 7km south of Battambang city and to the east of the Sangker River.

Wat Kampong Seima 

Contemporary monastery and pagoda located on the southern side of Battambang central and west of the Sangker River.

Wat Pacha 

Contemporary monastery and pagoda in central Battambang, located on the east side of the Sangker River and east of Wat Sangke.

Wat Kor

Contemporary monastery and pagoda that was founded in the early 1900s, located on the southern side of Battambang central. It is one of the more beautiful pagodas in Battambang featuring lush grounds and a pagoda of the classical Battambang style with a few quirks all of its own. Wat Kor village is an older village … Read more

Wat Thommikaram

A new pagoda under construction on the south side of central Battambang city – photo is the temporary prayer hall while the pagoda is being constructed. Photos: Aug 2023

Wat Kuntakod

Contemporary monastery and pagoda located on the east side of Battambang city, just north of the airport strip. The monastery grounds feature several stupa and chedi with the pagoda finished in luminous gold, nicely contrasted by its deep red walls.

Wat Po Veal – Battambang (Wat Bovil)

Also recorded as Wat Bovil. Contemporary monastery and pagoda in the heart of Battambang city, east of the river, and south of Wat Po Knong. There are two pagodas here, that replaced an earlier pagoda reportedly founded in the early 19th century. In the 1930s the pagoda also featured a Pali school, Pali being the … Read more

Wat Sophy 

Contemporary monastery and pagoda, of Battambang style with a porched roof, also featuring two grand, tall pavilions. Located in the northeast of Battambang city and on the west bank of the Sangker River.