Puok District

Spean

A laterite bridge (not in use) with 11 arches measuring approximately 30 m long, 10 m wide, and 2.5 m high. Located along the ancient Royal Road and just within the grounds of Phokeethra Country Club.

Kok Srok (N.T.)

A Neak Ta shelter housing remnants of an ancient temple. Feet of a small statue, a grinding stone roller, what may have been a pesani, laterite, fragment of a sculpture, and an unusual rectangular piece with a flared end.

Kok Ta Moan

Located in Puok District some 30 km northeast of Siem Reap, and set among the farming lands of the village, Ko Ta Moan features the remains of an ancient brick temple. The mound the site occupies is quite pronounced indicating there may actually be a basement structure still intact. Above ground, brick rubble abounds with … Read more

Wat Kou Chan Rongsei – Prasat Kok Ku (Puok)

Located in the small village of Mukh Paen, about 30 km northwest of Siem Reap, is a small monastery and contemporary pagoda (also known as Wat Kuchan Rangsei – Khmer: វត្ត​គូ​ច័ន្ទ​រង្សី) that has superseded an ancient temple site as many pagodas do. A line of laterite blocks are exposed on one side of the pagoda … Read more

Spean Popa

Laterite bridge (still in use) that appears to be around a few meters wide and 15 m or so meters long. Cisark notes that it is composed of 10 arches, measuring 20 meters long and 6 meters wide with a sandstone terminal 10 m to the north that bears an inscription of two lines and … Read more

Spean

Laterite bridge consists of 4 arches. It measures 15 meters long and 6 meters wide.

Spean

Laterite bridge measuring 15 meters long and 8 meters wide according to Cisark, what can be seen appears as 2-3 m wide and 10 m or so long but it is overgrown and possibly partly buried.

Spean

Laterite bridge recorded as measuring 30 meters long and 6 meters wide, as at 06/21, it is heavily overgrown but a path does cut through the shrub to where a section of the bridge appears to have collapsed.

Kôk Angkanh

A site where several ancient relics were found BW Photos: EFEO

Wat Tatok

A very pretty monastery and pagoda where an inscribed cubic sandstone stele was recorded and registered under K. 892.

Wat Kdei Run

Modern monastery near where a bollard was found with an inscription registered under K. 897 and other sandstone remnants are seen.

Prasat Reangsey Pagoda

Contemporary pagoda that is built on a moated ancient site. On the east, you can see a neak ta shelter housing various small fragments of the old site. On the west of the pagoda there is an interesting shrine housing more remnants of the ancient site. The monastery complex is quite large and one of … Read more

Sasar Sdam Temple (Pouk District)

Monastery (Wat Sasar Sdam) built on an ancient site where an inscribed stele was found (K 832). The pagoda is still surrounded by the ancient moat and the remains of the ancient temple are neatly arranged on its western side.  The arrangement includes numerous sandstone plinths from door frames etc, some of which are pink … Read more

Spean Memay (Yeang Commune)

Located along the ancient road that led out of Angkor to Phnom Srok (and beyond), Spean Memay of Yeang Commune is a laterite bridge recorded as measuring 45 meters long and 9 meters wide. Note there are several bridges named “Memay” see here for others and a larger map of the ancient road network and bridges … Read more

Lvea

Also known as Phum Lovea, it was once the location of an ancient village dating to the Iron Age with occupation seemingly continuing till the present day. The circular nature of the site is most notable from an aerial view. Otherwise, there is little to recognise at ground level, although the monastery, Wat Lvea retains … Read more

Kok Svay Chek

A recorded mound that may have been the site where an important stele was originally located. The stele was recorded by French surveyors in the early 1930s as being found half-buried, on a low prominence, about three kilometres west of Wat Kok Khpos. Its exact original location is not completely clear. The marker for the … Read more

Wat Puok

Monastery and contemporary pagoda also known as Wat Bo (Puok). The pagoda itself has some unique design quirks and is quite charasmatic. It features ornate wood-carved pediments, images of Apsara on several of its columns, interesting murals, and is demarcated by double sema. The site also features several older stupa. Around the grounds of the … Read more