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Kompong Phluk Floating Village

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Kampong Phluk is a group of three towns of stilted houses worked inside the floodplain around 16 km southeast of Siem Reap. The towns are basically Khmer and have around 3000 occupants between them. Overwhelmed mangrove backwoods encompasses the zone and is home to an assortment of natural life including crab-eating macaques. Amid the dry season when the lake is low, the structures in the towns appear to take off on their 6-meter stilts uncovered by the absence of water. As of now of year a considerable lot of the villagers move out onto the lake and manufacture transitory houses. In the wet season when water level ascents, the villagers move back to their perpetual houses on the floodplain, the stilts now covered up under the water. Kampong Phluk's economy is, as one may expect, situated in angling, essential in shrimp gathering. Kampong Phluk sees relatively couple of outside guests and offers a nearby take a gander at the submerged timberland and lakeside town life. The zo...
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Bakong

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First of Angkor's large mountain temples Bakong sanctuary  Name:Bakong Date:881 King:Indravarman I Location:Village of Roluos, only South of National Highway 6 Nearby:Preah Ko, Prasat Prei Monti  The Bakong is the first of the expansive mountain sanctuaries in Angkor. It has a place with the Roluos gathering, work toward the finish of the ninth century.  The Bakong and alternate sanctuaries of the Roluos gathering, similar to the Preah Ko and the Lolei were work in Hariharalaya, an early capital of the Khmer domain. This territory is currently called Roluos, found North of Tonle Sap lake, around 15 kilometers East of Siem Reap.  State sanctuary of King Indravarman I  The Bakong was work by King Indravarman I, who likewise assemble the Preah Ko sanctuary and the tremendous Indratataka baray, a repository where water was put away to be utilized for water system amid the dry season.  It was the state sanctuary of King Indravarman...
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Preah Ko

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"The sacred bull",one of the oldest temples in Angkor Nandi the sacrosanct bull  Nam: Preah Ko, Prasat Preah Ko Date:879 King Indravarman I Location:Near the town of Roluos, only South of National Highway 6, around 12 kilometers East of Siem Reap Nearby:Bakong, Prasat Prei Monti, Prasat Lolei  Preah Ko, "the sacrosanct bull", is one of the most established landmarks in Angkor. The Hindu sanctuary committed to Shiva is named after the bull Nandi, the mount of Shiva.  Worked in 879, the Preah Ko is the most seasoned sanctuary of the Roluos gathering of sanctuaries to which the Bakong, Prasat Lolei and Prasat Prei Monti likewise have a place.  Ruler Indravarman I assembled the sanctuary to pay tribute to his progenitors in the town of Hariharalaya, the old capital of the Khmer originating before Angkor Thom by a few centuries. The sanctuary was cleared from the wilderness in the 1930's.  The channel and external fenced in areas   ...
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Lolei

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9th Century island temple in the old Khmer capital Hariharalaya Lintel with chiseling of a Kala  Name:Lolei, Prasat Lolei Date:893 King:Yasovarman I Location:Near the town of Roluos, only North of National Highway 6, around 12 kilometers East of Siem Reap Nearby:Preah Ko, Bakong  Prasat Lolei is an island sanctuary worked in 893 by King Yasovarman I, to respect his progenitors.  The sanctuary was developed on a counterfeit island in the Indratataka baray, a tremendous water repository measuring almost 4 kilometers in length and 750 meters wide. The baray, now dry, was uncovered for water system purposes and as a wellspring of drinking water for the capital.  Sanctuary of the Roluos gathering, in the old capital Hariharalaya  Lolei is one of the sanctuaries of the Roluos gathering, alternate ones being the Bakong, Preah Ko and Prasat Prei Monti. A Hindu sanctuary devoted to Shiva, Prasat Lolei was the last sanctuary worked in Hariharala...
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Beng Mealea

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Large, unrestored temple surrounded by jungle Beng Mealea wilderness sanctuary  Name:Beng Mealea, Prasat Beng Mealea, Beng Melea Date:First half of the twelfth century King:Suryavarman II Location:East of Siem Reap on Highway 64 to Phnom Kulen National Park, around 70 kilometers from Siem Reap Beng Mealea is a vast, unrestored sanctuary encompassed and incompletely congested by wilderness close Phnom Kulen National Park at impressive separation from Siem Reap and the primary Angkor sanctuaries.  The sanctuary worked out of huge sandstone squares enhanced with both Hindu and Buddhist portrayals is arranged towards the East. A wooden somewhat hoisted walkway prompts the inward asylum at the focal point of the sanctuary.  As no establishment stele has been discovered, the sanctuary's establishing date is not known with assurance. In light of its style archeologists trust that Beng Mealea was worked by King Suryavarman II amid the main portion of the tw...
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Kbal Spean

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"River of a thousand lingas" Carvings of lingas and Hindu gods  Name:Kbal Spean Date:eleventh century King:Udayadityavarman II Location:West of Route 67 in Phnom Kulen National Park, around 50 kilometers North East of Siem Reap Kbal Spean is an antiquated Khmer site in Phnom Kulen National Park, a remote place situated at extensive separation from Siem Reap and the principle Angkor landmarks. The site extends over a length of around 150 meters through the wilderness along the Stung Kbal Spean waterway, known as the "stream of a thousand lingas".  There is no sanctuary at Kbal Spean. The waterway bed is secured with several lingas, while delineations of Hindu divinities have been cut into the stone along and in the stream. The vast majority of the lingas and carvings were made in the eleventh century amid the rule of King Udayadityavarman II.  To shield the lingas and sculptings from additionally rot the waterway bed has been fenced off; guests...
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Banteay Srei

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"The citadel of women" Banteay Srei sanctuary  Name:Banteay Srei, Pink temple, The Ladies temple Date:967 King:Yajnavaraha, a Brahmin cleric of KingRajendravarman II Location:Along highway 67, around 20 kilometers North of the East Mebon Found far from the primary landmarks is the Banteay Srei sanctuary, one of Angkor's features. This sanctuary contains the finest, most mind boggling carvings to be found in Angkor.  Situated in a remote region the sanctuary was rediscovered in 1914 and cleared somewhere in the range of 10 years after the fact. It was recreated utilizing the strategy for anastylosis by French conservator Henri Marchal amid the 1930's. Today the Banteay Srei is an exceptionally very much saved landmark. Its impeccable ornamentations that cover a large portion of the sanctuary demonstrate awesome expertise and exactness.  History of the sanctuary  The sanctuary was work in 967 by Yajnavaraha, a Brahmin cleric and advisor of Ki...
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