Webbed Feet, Web Log » temples https://jinja.apsara.org Art, life, art of life in Cambodia. Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:19:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Temple In The Sky https://jinja.apsara.org/2008/08/temple-in-the-sky/ https://jinja.apsara.org/2008/08/temple-in-the-sky/#comments Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:24:47 +0000 Jinja http://jinja.apsara.org/index.php/2008/08/10/temple-in-the-sky/ I envy Geoffrey and Kounila for their chance to go to Preah Vihear.  It’s a stunning setting, and I hope to visit again when things have calmed down.

While some may believe it’s challenging to enter from the Cambodian side, it’s do-able if you think of it more as a road trip than a day outing. My first visit was in 2003, when the border was closed, and it was nearly deserted.


Click for 2003 Anlong Veng/Preah Vihear writeup & pictures.  

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It seems in life we are sometimes bound to often retrace our steps. In this case I don’t mind too much: I’d recently gone by dirtbike to Koh Ker, and subsequently Preah Vihear.
I did both in a day by helicopter, which was great fun. I’m used to thinking in terms of how difficult the road is, or which monument is close to another. Flying provides another topology entirely.

Preah Vihear by air


Koh Ker by air


Some of the small ‘linga’ monuments in the vicinity of Koh Ker. This was a first for me, some are quite intact after years of complete neglect!
(More pictures to follow!)

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