Style : Between Pre-angkorian and Angkorian Periods
Construction : Inauguration Founded in 802 – More than 400 years before Angkor Wat
Initiator : Jayavarman II, Founder of the Khmer Empire
Dedication : Creation of the cult of a god-king : Devaraja
Visit : 2 hours including 1 hour climbing to the site
• Phnom Kulen is a hoy mountain in Cambodia on which in 802, King Jayavarman II has been declared a god-king.
• An exquisite mountain region of waterfalls and riverbed carvings. Hundreds of images have been carved into the sandstone floors along a shady brook.
• The Khmer Rouge used the mountain as a final stronghold for two decades after losing power in 1979, so nothing is left from the temples which were built at the time of Javayarman II and successors..
Comments
• You will for sure enjoy the most beautiful section of the thousand lingas river cascades, where a majestic sunlit waterfall streams through dense jungle.
• I would like to organise there a pleasant recreation between the combined visits of Bantaey Srei and Bang Melea
