Visiting the Remote Temple of Koh Ker in Cambodia
Reposted December 31, 2019
Koh Ker, capital of the Angkorian empire from AD 928 to AD 944, was one of Cambodia's most remote and inaccessible temple complexes.
There is no public transport from Siem Reap to Koh Ker so getting to there involved a 130km return trip on the back of a motorbike with a fellow traveller.
We left way to late and rushed around before a mad dash back with a inadequate head light on a very dark highway with dogs and cows randomly appearing in front of us. Not to mention all the insects.
Crazy Adventures if not down right dangerous. But at the end of yet another long hot day, cold Angkor beers. This is the life.
Fascinating place. Devoid of tourists, completely overgrown. The tree roots, overtaking the structures like some snake strangling the life out of them. Destroy it as we might, nature fights back and will survive long after we have gone.
Just in case you can't find it: gps location N13.790305, E104.5333698
We left way to late and rushed around before a mad dash back with a inadequate head light on a very dark highway with dogs and cows randomly appearing in front of us. Not to mention all the insects.
Crazy Adventures if not down right dangerous. But at the end of yet another long hot day, cold Angkor beers. This is the life.
Fascinating place. Devoid of tourists, completely overgrown. The tree roots, overtaking the structures like some snake strangling the life out of them. Destroy it as we might, nature fights back and will survive long after we have gone.
Just in case you can't find it: gps location N13.790305, E104.5333698
This post has been rewritten for Nomadic Backpacker and is based on my travels in 2014
This post was from 2014. Feels like a lifetime ago. I wish I had taken more notes.
Rising 36 meters above the forest floor, Prasat Thom, merely the base for the 4 meter tall linga that was enshrined at its peak, although no traces of the linga remain.
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