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Preah Vihea Province

Preah Vihear border with northern Thailand and Laos, where the temple should be three-Angkorian temple Koh Ker and Preah Khan of Kampong. This is also a community shelters, many of the ethnic hill tribe.

Koh Ker was the capital of the emperor Khmer King Jayavarman Russell reference 4, built the city in the year 921. Some parts of the castle were buried away in the woods that are not able to travel to. Vihear province's most special places .

Temple was built and dedicated to Shiva and is located on the edge of the highlands plains country. Built by a temple, a series of stone flooring and stair, which is more than 800 meters and slopes There is a date in the first half of the 11th century. Although, the construction history since the 9th century when the hermitage was found. This place is kept very special especially depending on the remote location. Very unusual for the quality of its architecture, which uses the natural environment and its role as well as the unusual quality of marble decorations.


Unique architecture, construction of a series of churches series connected by a system of stone flooring and stair along the slopes over 800 meters, the temple is a unique masterpiece of Khmer architecture through design and decoration relationship between environmental landscape scenes. Really purity in design and detail of decoration.

Kampong Preah Khan is also known as the Pagan temples, construction of an enormous scale, which is located in the southwestern corner of the province . The temple covers an area 4 times larger than Baray Sunflowers with a length of 3 km and several towers or castles in premises. The temple is not known and rarely visited, and the temple was under tremendous steal the past few years.

Through great effort by the government under the leadership of intelligence and brilliance of Samdech Akka Moha Sena President Samdech Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia Preah Vihear has been registered and declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, on July 8, 2008.

Preah Vihea Province Preah Vihea Province Reviewed by Themelot on March 04, 2020 Rating: 5
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