Udong Sights

  1. Chet Dey Mak Proum

    At the northwestern extremity of the ridge stand four large stupas. The first is the cement Chet Dey Mak Proum, the final resting place of King Monivong (r 1927-41). Decorated with garudas (mythical half-man, half-bird creatures), floral designs and elephants, it has four faces on top.

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  2. memorial

    At the base of the ridge, close to the road, is a memorial to the victims of Pol Pot that contains the bones of some of the people who were buried in approximately 100 mass graves, each containing about a dozen bodies. Instruments of torture were unearthed along with the bones when a number of the pits were disinterred in 1981 and 1982.

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  3. Phnom Vihear Leu

    The smaller ridge has two structures and several stupas on top. Ta San Mosque faces westward towards Mecca. Across the plains to the south of the mosque you can see Phnom Vihear Leu, a small hill on which a vihara stands between two white poles. To the right of the vihara is a building used as a prison under Pol Pot's rule. To the left of the vihara and below it is a pagoda known as Arey Ka Sap.

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  4. Vihear Preah Ath Roes

    The larger ridge, Phnom Preah Reach Throap (Hill of the Royal Fortune), is so named because a 16th-century Khmer king is said to have hidden the national treasury here during a war with the Thais. The most impressive structure on Phnom Preah Reach Throap is Vihear Preah Ath Roes. The vihara and the Buddha, dedicated in 1911 by King Sisowath, were blown up by the Khmer Rouge in 1977.

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  5. Vihear Preah Ko

    About 120m northwest of Vihear Preah Ath Roes is a line of small viharas . The first is Vihear Preah Ko, a brick-roofed structure that contains a statue of Preah Ko, the sacred bull; the original statue was carried away by the Thais long ago. The second structure, which has a seated Buddha inside, is Vihear Preah Keo. The third is Vihear Prak Neak, its cracked walls topped with a thatched roof. Inside is a seated Buddha who is guarded by a naga (serpent). ( Prak neak means 'protected by a naga '.)

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