Located north of the main group of temples in Koh Ker, it’s also known as Prasat Beng Veng and Prasat Ben Ven. Still standing today is one brick shrine in what is recorded as a group of three built upon a common laterite base and opening to the east. The site is notable for featuring … Read more
Located on the eastern side of Preah Vihear province, around 20km west of the Laos border and 11km northwest of the village of Robonh, Prasat Chheu Teal Phliet is the ruins of a sandstone temple. It is a sing shrine, with a sandstone body that featured a brick superstructure, none of which is in situ … Read more
Located on the northern side of the Koh Ker group of temples, Prasat Dang Tung (or Don Ton South) features the remains of a rectangular laterite building that houses a beautifully decorated pedestal. This laterite building opened to the east and also featured decorated octagonal door columns. Remnants of other structures can be seen, looks … Read more
Located south of the main group of Koh Ker’s temples, Prasat Kok Krong is a rectangular brick temple that featured a corbelled roof and opened to the east. It is notable for featuring an inscription that, according to the onsite placard, notes the Jayavarman IV’a success in constructing Prasat Prang, mentions the Ganga river (a … Read more
Remains of a laterite temple with “library” and outer enclosure. The site is very easy to access being close by to road 62. As mentioned it is a walled site that featured a large entrance gopura on its east side with tall central temple that unusually opened on all four sides along with showing signs … Read more
Located 3km to the southeast of Purrieng village, and just north of the ancient road that led from Beng Mealea to Wat Phu, Prasat Mak Ma is reminiscent of Temple d’Etapes that are seen along the same ancient road from Angkor to Preah Khan of Kampong Svay. In this case, the single shrine is built … Read more
Located on the northwest side of the Koh Ker temple group, Prasat Bei is a group of three brick temples built on a common laterite base. The three towers are in good state of preservation with their sandstone doorframes and lintels still intact whilst the door columns are decorated the lintels are bare, never sculpted. … Read more
Located on the northwest side of the Koh Ker temple group, Prasat Dan is the remains of a square laterite temple. The temple opened to the east featuring a laterite body with a brick superstructure and an inscription is recorded from one of the door jambs. Inscription The monument named Prását Dán, reported for the … Read more
Located on the northwest side of the Koh Ker group of temples, Prasat Dang Tong, or Don Ton North (in some records, Prasat Reamker), is the remains of a brick temple, that according to an onsite report, was an elongated building with a corbelled roof possibly built prior to Jayavarman IV’s relocation of the capital … Read more
Located near the developing village of Prateal Hang and around 30km north of Srayong village, and around 6km to the northeast of Prasat Choan Sram, the site is also known as Prasat Komphus and is the remains of a group of five brick temples. As speculated by early French researchers, the site was possibly the … Read more
Prasat Prei, also known as Prasat Trapeang Prei, is a square laterite temple with a basin on the north and south. The temple, unusually, opens to the south and features a sandstone doorframe that is flanked by decorated door columns that are notable for their style. It has a tiered laterite base with steps on … Read more
Located on the northwestern side of the Koh Ker temple group, Prasat Rolom is the remains of a brick/laterite hybrid temple that featured an outer enclosure wall and basin to the east. The single shrine opens to the east and has a main body constructed of laterite with a brick superstructure rising above and remnants … Read more
Located on the southeast side of the Koh Ker temple group, also known as Prasat Sampor and Sampie, it’s the remains of a brick temple that opened to the west. On one side of the site, you can see a line of laterite that may have been the start of, or the remains of an … Read more
Located north of the Koh Ker temple group and just north of the ancient road that once led from Beng Mealea to Koh Ker, Prasat Ta Maen, also known as Prasat Ta Men, is quite similar in many ways to the sites known as “Temple d’Etape” so labeled by the French researchers in the 1900s. … Read more
Located to the southeast of the main Koh Ker temple group, Prasat Trapeang Svay is the remains of a brick temple that opened to the west. It was a single shrine by appearance and was built atop a laterite base. Fragments of its sandstone door frame and decorated octagonal pillars can still be seen along … Read more
Contemporary monastery and pagoda located on the east side of the Stung Sen river in Kampong Svay Commune of Kampong Thom.
The old wooden pagoda and salaa. I believe nowadays the monk resides a little further north in a new salaa. Stored here is an unusual Buddhist boundary marker.
Contemporary monastery and pagoda located on the east side of the Stung Sen river in Tboung Krapeu Commune of Santuk District, Kampong Thom.
Located on the high ground of the flood plains that surround the Stung Sen River in Kampong Svay, it’s a contemporary monastery and pagoda of a unique style that is dated to 1931. It features three chedi, or prasat, topping its roof and inside a large collection of Buddhist relics surround the Buddha statue. It … Read more
Contemporary monastery and pagoda located on the west side of the Stung Sen river in Kampong Svay Commune of Kampong Thom. Double-story pagodas can be seen here and there with a lecture hall on the first floor and prayer hall above but this features an unusual ventilation “attic” in between that and the roof.
Contemporary monastery and pagoda located just northwest of the village of Pyuor Chruk.
Contemporary monastery with an older wooden vihara. To the northwest of the pagoda are the remnants of an ancient temple site with only a scattering of laterite blocks to be seen atop a mound and nearby what may (or may not) have been a laterite-lined basin.
