Phnom Kulen Makara

Located around 2km northwest of Beng Mealea Temple on the foothills of Phnom Kulen, is a very unique piece of ancient infrastructure. Around 2020, a local discovered a large sandstone head of a Makara (part lion/part sea creature from Hindu mythology). Recently the site has been excavated and restored revealing it was actually part of … Read more

Wat Toek Lech 

A contemporary pagoda that is located west of Beng Mealea and near the ancient sites of Kuk Troap, Daun Chan and Ta Phou. On the pagoda’s east side, fragments of a pair of small lions can be seen. It’s possible that they originated from the nearby Prasat Kuk Troap.

Spean Khmeng (Toek Lich)

Laterite bridge reported as being 15m x 7m. Location unconfirmed. Noted as being “On the road linking Angkor to Beng Mealea, about 2 km southwest of Beng Mealea and 1.2 km south of the village of Toek Lich”

Phnom Bei

Sandstone quarry located in the area from the northwest corner of Prasat Beng Mealea at the foot of the Phnom Kulen.

Kap Chen Temple

Kap Chen Temple (not yet prepared for visitors – as of late 2021) is a sandstone temple featuring at least one tower that is only partially standing and a large sprawl of tumbled sandstone blocks buried in overgrowth at the time of visiting. The base of the partially standing tower appears intact and along with … Read more

Ta Phou Temple

Remains of a laterite temple that is curiously built attached to a rock shelter. It appears as it would have opened from the east with sandstone doorways leading to a shrine/balan at the rock face. You can reach the site via the trail that leads around the left of the monastery and follow it north … Read more