Tuek Chhou District
Wat Kirisophea
Located to the southeast of Phnom Chhngok in Kampot Province, Wat Kirisophea is a contemporary monastery and pagoda featuring a stupa that is centuries old. The pagoda is quite old too, surrounded by a moat and featuring ornate pediments, one of which curiously features a Yin Yang symbol in a lotus medallion.
Brosat Chakkarh Vath
Located past Phnom Kbal Romeas and on the northern side of Phnom Chhngok in Kampot Province, Brosat Chakkarh Vath (as it’s named on Google Maps) is a sacred site featuring a series of shrines and a man-made path that leads into a scenic water cave.
Wat Angsdok
Located near to Phnom Kbal Romeas in Kampot Province, Angsdok Pagoda is currently under restoration at the time of visiting in 08/22.
Wat Kbal Romeas
Located around 7km east of Kampot city and a little south of Phnom Kbal Romeas, Kbal Romeas Pagoda features a bell-shaped stupa that may be quite old, plus curious pieces of sandstone that one may imagine are from an ancient temple. The balan of the pagoda appears to feature something interesting set into the balan … Read more
Wat Sampov Pram
Located atop Bokor Mountain, Wat Sampov Pram is a charismatic pagoda with an extraordinary location and part of what was an old French colonial resort area from the 1920s, Bokor Hill Station.
Phnom Bokor & Bokor Hill Station
Located atop the hill of the same name you can find numerous attractions along with spectacular views across the hillsides and out over the ocean. Located about 37 km west up a beautiful winding road, Bokor Hill Station was an old French colonial resort area from the 1920s also nearby is Preah Monivong National Park. … Read more
Phnom Kbal Romeas of Kampot
Phnom Kbal Romeas is a small mountain with an abundance of dramatic caves weaving throughout that has become a popular site for rock climbing (see Climbodia) and also a site inhabited during neolithic times (5000-3000 BC). En-route through the first natural chamber of the cave entered via a bridge is a small Buddhist shrine. Then … Read more
Wat Ang Sdok
Contemporary monastery that may have been built on an ancient site.
Phnom Chhngok Temple
Located around 12 km from Kampot, 25 km from Kep, and 140 km from Phnom Penh, Phnom Chhngok is a small mountain featuring a Buddhist temple on one side and on its western side a cave featuring an ancient temple dating to the 5th century Funan Era. From the site entrance on the western side … Read more