Sights in Phnom Santuk

1. Phnom Santuk

   • Phnom Santuk, Cambodia
   • Sights › Architecture

   Phnom Santuk has an active wat and the local monks are always interested in receiving foreign tourists. For travellers spending the night in Kompong Thom, Phnom Santuk is a good place from which to catch a magnificent sunset over the rice fields, though this means coming down in the dark.

   The parking fee, which is clearly not being spent on litter pickup, depends on who's collecting it and who you are. There are food stalls and lots of beggars around the car park.

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2. pagoda

   • Phnom Santuk, Cambodia
   • Sights › Religious, spiritual

   The stairs up the holy mountain wind their way up through a forest and emerge at a colourful pagoda that has many small shrines quite unlike others around Cambodia. Balanced around the wat are a number of interesting sandstone boulders into which images of Buddha have been carved.

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3. reclining Buddhas

   • Phnom Santuk, Cambodia
   • Sights › Religious, spiritual

   Just beneath the southern summit of the mountain are several large reclining Buddhas - some modern incarnations cast in cement, others carved into the mountain itself centuries ago.

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