Located 380m south-southeast of Banteay Ampil temple and 190m south of the ancient East Road, the site features traces of an ancient temple with sandstone fragments and blocks. It’s recorded on Google Maps as “គ្រឹះប្រាសាទជាន់លេច”. The site sits in the centre of an undeveloped area measuring around 140m x 140m, surrounded by village homes. The … Read more
Located 700m south-southwest of Banteay Ampil temple and 450m south of the ancient East Road, the site features the traces of an ancient temple with a few sandstone and brick fragments and 50m to the east a large basin around 80m x 40m. Images 2021
Located 28 km east of Siem Reap along National Road 6 and near Angkor Wildlife & Aquarium and the village of Damdek, Angkor Wonder Garden is a massive 7-hectare landscaped flower garden. Opening in December 2023, it adds to the attractions in the area and to the list of major attractions in the Siem Reap … Read more
Located at the edge of the Tonle Sap on the southeastern side of Siem Reap Province, Kampong Khleang village is a characterful, natural, and charming village where the bulk of the locals draw their livelihood from the great Tonle Sap lake and its tributaries. Here, the homes are based along the water’s edge, rising up … Read more
Contemporary monastery and pagoda located in Kampong Khleang, on the west side of the ancient canal. Market stalls abound and on the east side of the pagoda, you can take the hire boat to cruise the waterways, see Kampong Khleang Floating Village.
Contemporary monastery and pagoda located in Kampong Khleang, on the east side of the ancient canal. The wooden bridge here is not only characterful but quite remarkable, it’s actually a cantilever and opens to allow larger boats through. As for the pagoda, it features some older funerary stupa/chedi, several replicating the style of the Angkorian … Read more
Contemporary monastery and pagoda located in Kampong Khleang, on the east side of the ancient canal.
A contemporary monastery and pagoda in the Kampong Khleang area. The site becomes an island in the wet season accessible only via a characterful wooden bridge crossing the ancient canal that’s lined with the stilted houses that the Kampong Khleang area is famed for.
The new Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport (SAI/VDSA) is located about 50 km to the northeast of Siem Reap City in Soutr Nikom District and takes over from the old airport (REP) (now closed) that was located to the northwest of the city centre. The new Siem Reap airport is much larger in all facets, offering improved services … Read more
Contemporary Monastery and pagoda with an interesting stupa. Images: April 2022.
Contemporary Monastery and pagoda located beside the ancient temple Banteay Srei (Damdek). Images: April 2022.
Shelter with what appear to be ancient sandstone plinths, carved with personages at some time
Located east of Banteay Ampil, along the route of the ancient East Road, a new pagoda/stupa is under construction. 09/22 12/22 12/2024
A small collection of remnants in a shelter near the local school in Samraong Village, Khnar Pou. Images 2021 Images 12/2024
A vast Buddhist-themed area featuring numerous contemporary shrines and a large basin. Interestingly, the site houses a number of ancient remains, including pedestals and what may or may not be an ancient linga stone. Nearby is the Teuk Chob Khnar Po Community Forest (Khmer: ព្រៃសហគមន៍ទឹកជប់ខ្នារពោធិ៍). Photos from the site visit in June 2021 2024
Located 26 km east of Siem Reap along National Road 6 and near the village of Damdaek, the new Angkor Wildlife & Aquarium opened on November 1st, 2022. Featuring a 500m3 aquarium featuring freshwater species as well as a 600m3 saltwater aquarium. The main aquarium building houses freshwater species that are endemic to Cambodia, Thailand, … Read more
A Buddhist boundary marker located beside a Chinese ancestral grave area and in between the ancient sites of Sasar Sdam and Preah Trapeang.
Ancient walled site located beside a contemporary monastery. The walled site is not large, around 25 m x 35 m long with a sandstone doorframe still standing on the east and a large opening on the west which may well be a later modification. The temple itself is no longer to be seen bar a … Read more
Located 800m west of Banteay Ampil temple and just north of the ancient East Road, the site features an array of sandstone fragments, and 200m to the east is a large basin 200m x 110m. According to the decorative style, the site may have dated to around the late 10th or early 11th century. Sandstone … Read more
Modern monastery, Wat Kriel, built near the remains of an ancient site.
Prasat Banteay Ampil located some 40km east of Angkor Wat, along the ancient East Road and around 20km east from Chau Srei Vibol Temple. It is incredibly well preserved and is still in its original state, mostly unrestored bar minor preservation works and structural supports. It sits on the north side of the ancient road, … Read more
The site of a modern monastery, Wat Sanlong, and also an ancient site with a tall brick temple and smaller satellite temple. Featured a moat and basin in the east. The tall brick temple features five levels and false doors on each side except the east which is open and has the remains of a … Read more
Prasat Don Diev is only partially standing, located on a small rise and surrounded by what once would have been a moat is the remains of an outer laterite wall that enclosed two laterite buildings (“libraries”) and five small square brick temples which have mostly collapsed and what isn’t collapsed is still buried. surprisingly there … Read more
Group of brick temples, some partially standing.
