Cave sights in Cambodia

1. Killing Caves of Phnom Sampeau

   • Phnom Sampeau, Cambodia
   • Sights › Cave

   About half-way up the cement access road to the summit, a turn-off leads 250m up the hill to the Killing Caves of Phnom Sampeau. An enchanted staircase, flanked by greenery, leads into a cavern where a golden reclining Buddha lies peacefully next to a glass-walled memorial, dedicated in 2007, filled with the bones and skulls of some of the people bludgeoned to death by Khmer Rouge cadres before being thrown through the overhead skylight.

   Nearby is the old memorial, a rusty cage made of chicken wire and cyclone fencing.

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