It is a natural resort is located about 12 kilometers from provincial town along National Road No. 57. On the top of the mountain there are three natural wells, Pkar Slar, Lo Khoun, and Ak So Pheak.
Phnom Sampeu has an Angkor-era Baray-style pool; cave shrines with skulls and bones of Khmer Rouge victims and about seven hundred steps leading up to the main temple area, with its dynamite views. The temple on the top of the mountain is built in 1964 with old and modern technology.
What make this temple a shrine is that local people has brought skulls and bones of victim of civil war hoping that their spirits can rest in peace. This mountain is one of the most well known one in Cambodia.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
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Thank you very much for the information.
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