The two Khleangs are similar buildings of uncertain function; one at the north was built first. Two inscriptions dated from 1002 AD to 1049 AD with in the south Khleang are similar to the oath of functionaries to be found on the door opening of the east Gopura of the royal palace. These temples were built in the reign of king Suryavarman I, in the 11th century.

Baphoun

  It is one temple situated 200m at North West of Bayon, was the state temple which was built in the reign of king Udayadityavarman II, in 1060 AD and consecrated to god Shiva. It was the artificial mountain temple which piled up from soil, covered from laterites and sandstones foundations. This temple is state of ruins in Angkor, which charged to reconstructed by EFEO since 1995 up to now. It faces to east and linking by 250m long bridge which is supported by round drum columns, in the middle there is a cruciform pavilion, the two galleries surrounded the complex with details of Hindu divinities, Ramayana and Mahabharata. At west side of second gallery is the reclining Buddha which took to build in the seventeen century. 

West Mebon

  It situated in the axis of West Baray,  surrounded bank has three small entry towers on each side with two opposing doors all in sandstones set about 25m a part and a form of single tower unfortunately,  it is so badly ruined, just now remains as piles of rubbles. Each pavilion is square in plane, measuring 2.40m over all and 2.28m internally, the towers link to one another by sandstones enclosures. The platform is situated in center of basin must have carried some masonry or light-weight structure, though there remains no trace. The excavations detected the presence of well, first octagonal in section and 0.55m across and then circular and a meter in diameter with the base lintel of sandstones in depth 2.70m, carefully dressed with radiating joins. The platform joined by causeway to east entry tower and flanked by Naga railings. It was built in the reign of king Udayadityavarman II, in the 11th century, and consecrated to Hindu god Vishnu.

Chau Srei Vibol  (Wat Trach)

  This ruin located on the peak of hill Trach at Trach village, Balang commune, Bakong district, Siem Reap Province. It is a mountain temple was built of sand stones and laterite, the temple surrounded by large wall which made of laterite stones with four Gopuras at the four cardinal directions. The sanctuary has a central tower, two libraries and galleries linked to four Gopuras at four cardinal directions. At the east side consists a large terrace and the laterites steps staircases which built from top to the bottom, and at the southern side there is the Dhammasala, that was made of sand stones with the fascinated corbel roofs, three galleries built as the halls for the pilgrims at the former time, and at the west of Dhammasala contains the large pond which framed by laterites. Outside the temple we can see the large moat, that surrounding the complex.

Angkor Wat

  Angkor Wat is located around 5 km at the north of Siem Reap, the large monument of Khmer which counted as the world heritage since 1992 by UNESCO, known as the seventh wonder of the world, religious temple in Angkor that symbolized of Khmer soul, civilization and culture. It is stable, well-proportioned and preserved with its fascinated reliefs that detailed of Hindu epics and the army procession of king Suryavarman II. This temple is contrary to other monuments of Khmer which faces to west; this transposition is doubtless explained by faces. Who was erected this temple? When? For what?   The answer of this question is: It was built in the reign of king Suryavarman II, in the first half of 12th century, dedicated to god Vishnu. This temple is surrounded by moat with rectangular form that measuring 1500m x 1300m long and 190m wide, surrounding galleries with 1000m long together, the outer rampart is measuring 1025m x 800m with three entry towers at the west. The five towers are standing on the top of pyramid that arranges in quincunx, the central sanctuary is in the middle and other four sanctuaries are at four angles. The central sanctuary is symbolized of mount Meru, the replica of mount Himalayas; the four towers are the four continents. The water moat is a cosmic symbol of the ocean, the surrounding rampart and galleries are the cosmic symbol of mountain chain which enclosing mount Meru. The two causeways, first is 250 m long x 12m and around 7m depth, the second one is 350m and 9m wide. All causeways are flanked by the two Naga balustrades which supported by the lower pilasters, the Naga causeways are symbolized the rainbow bridges, which the ways leading to the heavens, they are linking from the earth to the home of gods.

Chau Say Tevota

  This is the small sanctuary, located at the small circuit and opposite side of Thomanon temple; this temple was built in the reign of king Suryavarman II, in the 12th century and dedicated to god Shiva. It was built of sand stone with four gateways, two libraries and one tower. The tower is linking by Madapa and at the east side there is a causeway which supported by round shaped columns, the terrace is cruciform shape, that flanked by Nagas, and the way is running from the terrace to river with flanking by sandstones lanterns.

Thomanon

  This is the small sanctuary, which is located at the small circuit and opposite side of Chau Say Tevota temple; this temple was built in the reign of king Suryavarman II, in the 12th century and dedicated to god Vishu. It was built of sandstones with two gateways, one library and one tower. The tower is linked by Madapa and at the east side there is a short bridge which supported by round shaped columns.

Banteay Samre

  This temple is located 400m east of the east Baray which linking to the dame of Baray at the west side with procession way that flanked by sandstones lanterns. The temple itself occupied around one hectare, which surrounded by two galleries, inner and the outer gallery made of laterites with four entry towers of sandstones. The central sanctuary is simple lotus bud in the same style of Angkor Wat. In side the temple there are many carvings details of Hindu epics. At the east entrance has the 200m long causeway and the cruciform terrace that flanked by two Nagas balustrades, and the elegant lions are watching the steps or staircases. It was built in the reign of king Suryavarman II, the 12th century, dedicated to home of god Vishnu.

Preah Palilay

  That is located behind the terrace of Tepranom, was linked by the elegant causeway with multi headed Nagas to the main entrance of temple, the central sanctuary is soaring up to top like close lotus bud which enclosed by the laterites enclosures. The temple was made of sand stones that piled up with staircases. At the entrance consists the details of Buddha such as Nirvana, preaching, meditation gestures, east side is the statue of Buddha Preah Palilay.

Preah Pitu

  It situated at the north east of the Royal palace, those are mostly bad ruined, the five towers took to build by different periods, some were built the same time of Khleang art style and some are same Angkor Wat art style. It seemed to be built at the end of reign of King Suryavarman II, in the 12th century. Over there, we still see many beautiful sculptures of god Vishnu, the churning of sea of milk and Shiva Nataracha.

Angkor Thom

  It was the largest capital city in the world in this period, the last capital City of Khmer Empire. This capital is enclosed by the ramparts with 12km all way round, that is 3km in square with its five monumental sanctuaries, each located at the each cardinal direction, except the east side has two gates, victory and the death gates. So every gate decorated with four faces which look to the four cardinal directions, the outside of the wall there is a large moat that surrounded the capital city, the causeway running across the moat to main entry tower, the causeway flanked by the two rows of gods on the left hand side and the demons at the right hand side, the two groups holding the Nagas for churning of sea of milk. Inside the capital city there are many hydraulic canals and ponds for use in that time, where the one million people lived in. It is the place for collected temples such as Bayon, Baphoun, Phimeanakas, Preah Palilay, Prasat Sur Preat, Khleang North and the South, Preah Pitu, the Terrace of Elephant and the Terrace of Leper king. Shou Daguan the Chinese emissary who said about the Angkor Thom, at the center of kingdom rises a golden tower (Bayon) flanked by more than twenty lesser towers and several hundred stones chambers. On the eastern side is a golden bridge guarded by two lions of gold, one on each side, with eight golden Buddha space a long the chambers. At the north of golden tower rises the tower of bronze (Baphoun) higher than the golden tower.

Bayon

  Bayon is located in the center of Angkor Thom, the famous one with its faces among a hundred temples in Angkor. This temple was built for several periods, first in the late of 9th century and then in the late of 12th century, the large scale complex inside Angkor Thom, which was built of basal stones foundations and sandstones galleries and towers, with its 72m long terrace that flanked by the Nagas  railings and lions guarded the staircases. The first gallery is 160m long by 140m wide with its fascinated reliefs details of the parades of  king Jayavarman VII's army, the war with Chams (rivalry, or neighboring enemy of  Cambodia who settled at the central Vietnam, in Champa), the every day lives of people, the civil war at the Malyoung, the real life of royal palaces and other entertainments, at the second level with complicated galleries and the chambers for worshipping, the carvings are combined between Buddhist, Hindu and daily lives of Khmer in that time, the real thousand Buddha figures had been destroyed or chopped out at the late of 13th century, which had the religion reaction, that way the Hinduist worshippers scratched the figures of Buddha firstly and then formed the Buddha's torsos as the Lingas and later on the Buddhists believers had chopped the Lingas out, on the walls surfaces there are only the niches without figures, but there we still see some spectacular carvings of every lives and look up many faces at the towers, at the third level has many faces locate near us, especially the smiling faces at north corner, there has 49 towers and each tower has four faces, these faces are the faces of Buddhist king Jayavarman VII or the faces of Bodhisattvas Lokesvara. The central sanctuary is 43m high that linked by Mandapa, with eight chambers to house of the gods and Buddha. The Bayon was the palace of the gods and Buddha, because there are the inscriptions on the door slabs which detail the names of gods and Bodhisattvas. This temple was built in the reign of great king Jayavarman VII, in the late of 12th century and the early 13th century, for dedicating the Mahayana Buddhism, it counts as the state temple in his reign.

Ta Prohm

  Ta Prohm is located at the small circuit near the corner ramparts of Banteay Kdei at the southeast. The jungle temple in Angkor that the trees grew on the temple with strangling roots. The roots occupied over the sanctuaries, carvings, and the galleries of temple. The French researchers kept some trees here for some evidences when they discovered here, saw plenty of trees which grew on other ruins like here, then they cleared all trees from the temples. But at Ta Prohm, Preah Khan and Ta Som they kept the trees there. The temple is enclosed by 1.000m long x 600m wide with four monumental entry towers at the four cardinal directions, so the two entry towers are broken down at the east and the south, each tower has four smiling visages that watch to the four cardinal directions. Inside the enclosure is the residential place of 79.365 inhabitants, of which 18 high priests, 2.740 officials, 2.220 assistants, 615 dancers, and there were 3.140 villages which supplied to the temple, such as rice, fishes, and honeys. The temple occupied the land area one hectare which has three galleries, 39 towers and other chambers for the gods, inside the temple has had 200 statues of Buddha, a golden dish weighing 5.00kilograms, 35 pieces of diamonds, 40.620 pearls, 4.540 valuable stones, 876 veils from china, 512 silk beds and 523 parasols. This temple was the large royal monastery which was built in the reign of king Jayavarman VII, in 1186 AD, and dedicated to his mother Prajnaparamitha, means the perfect wisdom, represented the mother of all Buddha. You may visit here at the afternoon or early morning to avoid crowded tourists around 9 am to 12 am; the best shot is the afternoon.

Banteay Kdei

  It is located on the small tour, opposite side of Srah Srang Lake, the first Buddhist monastery, with large enclosure which built of lava stones with four entry towers; each has four faces that looking to the four cardinal directions. At the east side, there is the elegant terrace with flanking Nagas railings and standing lions stand at the staircases. The inner enclosure covering the temple with two gateways in the cruciform shapes, in which the east entry has the Buddha statue which established in the seventeen century. There has the dancing hall, enclosing gallery and the towers which linking by the gallery or other chambers. This temple was built in the reign of king Jayavarman VII, in 12th century and dedicated to Buddhism. At the west side, there is Spung tree grows on the wall with its giant roots like octopuses. On the column at the north side has two Buddha that remained from iconoclasts destroyed at the former time.

Srah Srang (The royal bath)

  This is the royal bath that is measuring 700m x 300m, which framed by the laterites and sand stones steps leading down to the water. At the west side there is the landing terrace made of laterites and sandstones with its superb view of lions and Naga balustrades. The terrace flanked by two Nagas railings with steps stairs led in to the water. The giant Garuda holds the small serpents in the middle, and the balustrades supported by the lower column. In the center of pond has the small basic temple that so called Mebon. This pond was built in the reign of king Jayavarman VII, at the late of 12th century. We can take here the beautiful sunrise and sunset quietly.

Ta Som

  This is the small sanctuary, which is located at the grand tour, enclosing by the large laterites enclosures with two entry towers at the west and the east sides. it is normally surrounding by two ramparts, one moat, one galleries, and two ponds at the east side. This temple was built of laterites and sandstones. At the east entrance there is the strangling fig grew on the gate of monumental tower. You may visit here in the morning, because of the view of the nice roots at the east entrance.

Neak Pean (intertwined Serpent)

  It is situated at the grand tour, and in the axis of Jayatataka Baray. The temple stands on the island, which is 300m in square shape, with five ponds and one sanctuary in form of lotus bud. The central pond is 70m in square and the small one is 25m in square. The central pond linked the small ponds by four small chambers; in each chamber has the different heads. At the north is elephant (represented water element), the east side is human head (which is represented the earth element), the south is lion (represented the fire), at the west side is horse head (represented the wind element), in the former time, the people could go to the different heads if they lacked of element as well and then high priests arranged the ablutions ceremony, it means that, the temple was the hospital for treatment of diseases. The central sanctuary has three blind doors with the figures of  Avalokesvara, the real one is facing to east and at the east side is a horse Balaha, one of incarnations of Avalokesvara. This horse helped the Simhala, the merchants who believed and worshipped him, the horse flew to the Indian Ocean and then helped the merchants, that way, and we can be seen around 21 figures of merchants who held the body of the horse.  At the south of the central tower, there are many Lingas which carved on the stone beds. This temple was built in the reign of king Jayavarman VII, at the late of 12th century, dedicated to Mahayana Buddhism.

Preah Khan (The sacred sword)

  It is located about 1.7km at the northeast of Angkor Thom North Gate, at the grand circuit, near the western dame of Jayatataka Baray. It is enclosed by two ramparts that made of laterites with four entrances at all cardinal directions; each entrance has three monumental gates which supposed for king in the middle and for ministers and officials at the both sides. The west and the east sides have the procession ways  with flanking by stones lanterns with four niches, in the niches remain only some traces of scratched Buddha and at the basic supported by the monsters. The causeways extending at the four sided moat with the sculptures of the stone statues of the gods on the left and the demons on the right hand sides. At the enclosure there is 72 Garudas that is 35m set apart. The inner part of the wall was the residential places of ministers, officials, professors and teachers. The temple was previously the temporary resident of king Jayavarman VII, before he restored Angkor Thom and later this place became the training center or university. The recent year the World monument Fund found the ponds with surrounding hill which supposed to be the royal palace of king Jayavarman's father, so this group excavated here and they found the layers of laterites steps that made like stairs down into the water. This temple is similar to Ta Prohm and occupied over 56 hectare of land area. There are many chambers, galleries and the towers, which made of laterites and sandstones. The plan of temple looks like the satellite shape, the central sanctuary lies in the axis of temple with many horizontal frame doors at the four sided. It is a complex of the gods because of the inscriptions at the door slabs. At the central sanctuary has the Stupa, which was built in the seventeenth century. Beside there has been large dancing hall, and the building with double storey, which made of sandstones and it supposed to be the granary house. At the east side there is a large Spung tree (Tetrameles Nudiflora) with its giant roots grew on the temple gallery. This temple was built in the reign of king Jayavarman VII, in 1191 AD and dedicated to his father.

The Terrace of Elephants

  This terrace is located in front of the royal palace in side the Angkor Thom capital, which is measuring 350m long, 19m wide. At the wall of terrace has many hunting elephants and the Garudas in the middle part of the terrace, the Garudas supported higher superb view of dais, that is the palace in the heaven. The terrace is normally flanked by the two serpent railings but all mostly collapsed a part. At the north side there is a landing terrace with lotus flower, which made of sandstones, the elephant with three heads and the horse Balaha with five heads in chambers. In the previous time this terrace was the royal audience, that the king observed the troops or visited the theater, the both side of dais for officials or ministers who visited the royal opera, circus in the terrace lawn. It was built in the reign of king Jayavarman VII, at the early of 13th century.

The Terrace of Leper King

  This terrace is located at the north side of the elephants' terrace. It is known as the terrace of crematorium for the royal family. The lord Yama is the god of justice who sits on the terrace in front of the pyre of the death, and then sentenced all kinds of prisoners there. The terrace has two walls with fascinated sculptures at the both walls, the inner and outer walls. The sculptures detailed about the nine, five headed serpents, the judges or spirits with their concubines who lived under world or under the Meru Mountain. Later the French named this terrace as the terrace of Leper king, according to local people called, and the mosses, mushroom grew on the body like the leprosy and the tree felt on the statue and destroyed the fingers, toes and legs, then the local people thought that, this terrace is to leper king terrace.  It was built in the reign of king Jayavarman VII, in the late of 12th century.  

Prasat Sour Preat

  This is the group of twelve towers that located in front of the royal palace. This group was built of laterite stones. This was built in the reign of king Jayavarman VII, at the late of 12th century. Zhou Daguan wrote about an entirely different purpose of the towers describing a method of settling disputes between men. Each of contestants is forced to be seated in one of the towers, with his relatives standing guard over him. They remain imprisoned two, three of four days. When allowed to emerge, one of them will be perfect in health. Thus is right or wrong determined by what is called "celestial judgment". Henri Mouhot wrote that the towers were said to have been the royal treasure..... it served as a depository for the crown jewels. Another theory is that, they may have served as an altar for each province, on the occasion of taking oath of loyalty to the king.

                Tonle Sap

        Sihanuk ville-Beach

Royal Palace-Phnom Penh