Phnom Santuk Sights

  1. pagoda

    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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  2. Phnom Santuk

    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.

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  3. reclining Buddhas

    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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