Wat Ek Phnom Sights

  1. Pepsi bottling plant

    From Battambang by bicycle or moto, it's possible to make a number of interesting stops. About 1.2km north of Battambang's ferry landing is a 1960s Pepsi bottling plant, its logo faded but otherwise hardly changed since production ceased abruptly in 1975. You can still see the remains of the old production line and, in a warehouse out back, thousands of dusty empties - bearing Pepsi's old script logo - whose contents quenched someone's thirst back when Nixon was in the White House.

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  2. Slaket crocodile farm

    Drive 700m further from the Pepsi bottling plant and turn left (west) and after 200m you'll get to a signless house behind which is the Slaket crocodile farm. It's open all day, including mealtimes - the crocs are always happy to have tourists for lunch.

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  3. Wat Ek Phnom

    Wat Ek Phnom an atmospheric, partly collapsed, 11th-century temple situated 11km north of Battambang, measures 52m by 49m and is surrounded by the remains of a laterite wall and an ancient baray (reservoir). A lintel showing the Churning of the Ocean of Milk can be seen above the east entrance to the central temple, whose upper flanks hold some fine bas-reliefs.

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