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Tours Angkor travel,
Phnom Penh travel cultural travels
adventure travel
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Siem
Reap town
Siem reap the angkor
Wat gate and tonlé sap
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Bird
sanctuary
Bird Sanctuary of Prek Toal
floating village
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Cambodia
Tours Angkor travel,
Phnom Penh travel cultural travels
adventure travel
package tours |
Cambodia
Tours Angkor travel,
Phnom Penh travel cultural travels
adventure travel
package tours |
Cambodia
Tours Angkor travel,
Phnom Penh travel cultural travels
adventure travel
package tours |
Siem
Reap town
Siem reap the angkor
Wat gate and tonlé sap
cambodia travel |
Bird
sanctuary
Bird Sanctuary of Prek Toal
floating village
cambodia travel |
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angkor Vat travel angkor
Wat tour (siem reap) angkor package tours individual
KOBAL
SPIEN
Thousand Lingas River
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Kobal
Spien, Known under the name of " the thousand Lingas river
" consists of sculptures dug in the cliff of the bed of
the river on a 200 metre length between a bridge and a waterfall.
These sculptures to sanctify the water of the river, date between
XI and XIIIth century. To go there, after having seen Bantey
Srei's magnificent sculptures, there's at first a road mad of
a dozen km, and then approximately 40 minutes of walking in the
jungle by a small fitted out path. Several hundreds of "
lingas " (representation of the sex of the god Shiva in
the Hinduism) are sculptured by important groups in the river
with spaces sculptured by Hanuman (the monkey god ), of Ram and
Lakshmi as well as that of slept Vishnou meditating in a cosmic
sleep on the essential ocean. Kobal Spien's water is going to
join rivers Sieam Reap and Puok by way of Angkor Wat's temple. |
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PRASAT
KRAVAN
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Prasad Kravan Temple, Dedicated
to the God Vishnou, this temple was built in 921 and restored
there're about forty year. (Completely built in bricks of clay
) is famous by its numerous representations of the God Vishnou.
The northerly towers of Prasat Cravan are decorated with low
reliefs representing the goddess Lakshmi the wife of Vishnou |
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left photo, Garuda transporting
Vishnu -- right photo, Vishnu with 4 arms |
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NEAK
PEAN
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Built in XIIth century
under Jayavarman VII's administration, a big pond surrounded
with stairs and a sanctuary in the centre on a small island.
The pilgrims came to the time there to make it their sacred ablutions.
4 overflows symbolize 4 rivers which took their source on the
same lake meadows of the Mountain Kailash in the Tibet |
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MONUMENTS
RESTORATION
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Construction sites of restoration are opened in several sites,
Photo of the top, in front of the terrace of Elephants. This
below in Bayon, a restorer measures the size of a stone for a
pediment has to restore from an established plan. |
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