Located in Cambodia’s west-southwest, Battambang Province is famed for its rice production, ancient temples, and the laid back simple life offered by the peaceful, and the clean capital city of the province which shares the same name, Battambang.
Key attractions are the French colonial buildings, traditional Khmer houses, the cuisine, Phnom Sampov, Prasat Snung, Phnom Banan, Wat Ek Phnom, and the Pagoda Trail.
Located around 40km southwest of Battambang, Laang Spean is an ancient pre-historic site located in a scenic natural cave atop a small limestone mountain. It’s a fascinating site that, with archeological research that dates back to the 70’s, resumed in contemporary times and is ongoing. It has been occupied by humans for over 60,000 years. … Read more
Contemporary monastery and pagoda located around 6km west of Battambang city. Immediately west of the pagoda is an interesting development that appears at first sight to be the trace of an old banteay, perhaps similar to Kampaeng Stoeng Preah Srok just west of Siem Reap along the ancient road. Or it could just be a … Read more
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
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
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
A contemporary monastery and pagoda located along the RN 5, east of Battambang city.
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
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
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
Contemporary monastery and pagoda located around 7km south of Battambang central and on the west of the Sangker River.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Contemporary monastery and pagoda located 7km south of Battambang city and to the east of the Sangker River.
Contemporary monastery and pagoda located on the southern side of Battambang central and west of the Sangker River.
Contemporary monastery and pagoda in central Battambang, located on the east side of the Sangker River and east of Wat Sangke.
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
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
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.
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
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.
Contemporary monastery and pagoda in the northeast of Battambang city and on the west bank of the Sangker River. It features beautiful decorative wood reliefs in its pediments, I am not sure of the age, but perhaps around mid to late-1900s.
Contemporary monastery and pagoda located 600m to the northwest of Wat Samrong Knong in Battambang.
A contemporary monastery and pagoda located around 1km north of Wat Samrong Knong on the east side of the Sangker River in Battambang. It’s built in the mid-1900s Battambang style and features a nice garden with…dinosaurs. Cambodia has some dinosaur-related discoveries in Koh Kong Province, while Battambang has an ancient marine fossil site at Phnom … Read more
With an auspicious name, Wat Keo, on the north side of Battambang city and the east side of the Sangker River, features an old pagoda that is immediately followed by a contemporary pagoda to its south. Unusually, the site is orientated to the north along a north-south axis while traditionally pagodas, and ancient temples too, … Read more
A contemporary monastery with a pagoda of the mid-1900s Battambang style and also on the monastery grounds, a stupa of that era, and a beautiful Khmer colonial-period building. Located in Kvit Village on the east side and south of the Sangker River, north of central Battambang city.
