The name Siem Reap literally means "Siam Defeated". This once quaint village has become the largest boom town and construction site in Cambodia. Siem Reap has colonial and Chinese-style architecture in the Old French Quarter, and around the Old Market. In the city, there are traditional Apsara dance performances, craft shops, silk ...
Choeung Ek Killing fields the site of a former orchard and mass grave of victims of the Khmer Rouge - killed between 1975 and 1979 - about 17 km south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is the best-known of the sites known as The Killing Fields, where the Khmer Rouge regime executed over ...
Tuol Svay Pray High School sits on a dusty road on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In 1976, the Khmer Rouge renamed the high school S-21 and turned it into a torture, interrogation and execution center. Of the 14, 000 people known to have entered, only seven survived. Not only did ...
The Silver Pagoda is located on the south side of the Royal Palace, Phnom Penh. Formerly, it was known as Wat Ubosoth Ratanaram. The temple's official name is Preah Vihear Preah Keo Morakot means "Temple of the Emerald Buddha" which is commonly shortened to Wat Preah Keo in Khmer.
The National Museum of Cambodia (opposite the Royal Palace). Contains an excellent collection of art from Cambodia's "golden age" of Angkor, and a lovely courtyard at the center. A main attraction is the statue of King Jayavarman VII (1181-1219) in mediation pose; other exhibits worth seeing include graceful statues of Hindu gods, ...
1, Street 178: Has long been known as 'Art Street' for the local sculpture shops and art galleries that line the road near the National Museum and Royal University of Fine Arts. Sculptors work on the street next to Wat Sarawan and the local galleries clustered near the Museum, most focusing on ...
Gleaming in gold, the Royal Palace is one of Phnom Penh’s most splendid architectural achievements. It is home to His Majesty Preah Bat smdech Preah Norodom Sihanouk and Her Majesty Preah Reach Akka-Mohesey Norodom Monineath. The palace was built in 1866 by His Majeaty Preah Bat Norodom, great grandfather to our current ...
Phnom Penh means Penh's Hill takes its name from the present Wat Phnom (Hill Temple). Legend has it that in 1372, an old nun named Lady Penh went to fetch water in the Tonle Sap and found a dead Koki tree floating down the stream. Inside a hole of the Koki tree ...
A four-sided pillar in a cage between the two monuments bears an inscription consecrating Gubyaukgyi. Myazedi inscription also Yazakumar Inscription or the Gubyaukgyi Inscription, inscribed in 1113, is the oldest surviving stone inscription of the Burmese. "Myazedi" means "jade stupa" ("zedi" being akin to the Pali "cetiya" and Thai "chedi"), and the ...
The Gubyaukgyi (Great Painted Cave Temple) built to enshrine the golden image, is a fine temple in the Early Style, square, with a vestibule in the east. The temple is also noted for the paintings, which cover the walls of the vestibule, the corridor and the sanctum. These paintings are among the ...
This Museum was first opened on the first October, 1979 and established in 1904. Over the years, many items were added until the small building could no longer properly display them. The building was then renovated, enlarged and opened to the public in 1979. The new museum is a complex of one ...
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