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EXCELLENT Based on 69 reviews Rosie H2024-07-21Verified Best driver in Siem Reap - Highly recommend Chan really is the best driver in Siem Reap! He always made sure we were comfortable and hydrated, giving us ice cold water on our return from each temple and driving with care and safety. His knowledge and expertise are amazing and made our 3 day tour of the temples a highlight of our south east Asia trip, providing us with insight into each temple, Cambodian culture & history, and always with a huge smile! If you want to truely enjoy Siem Reap and all its beauty, you need to book Chan! He truely is the best driver we have ever hired :) We cannot wait to return to Cambodia and drive with Chan again one day. Bryony H2024-07-12Verified Brilliant tour guide! Goes above and beyond! Fantastic tour guide! Chan was very informative, gave us as much time as we liked at each temple and was flexible in the temples we wanted to see. Cold water between temples was perfect on such a hot day! Would definitely recommend Chan for a temples tour and super affordable Jonny E2024-07-12Verified Fantastic tour for great value. Kosal is a fantastic tour driver for Angkor Wat. Extremely friendly and accommodating. Kosal has amazing english and a lot of knowledge about the temples you visit so you can ask plenty of questions! He also provides free bottled water at every stop and always gives you plenty of time to look around the temples so that you don’t feel rushed. Absolutely recommend him to anyone looking to visit Angkor Wat! Thank you Kosal! G Black2024-07-12Verified The smiliest tuk tuk driver in Siem Reap Kosal is an amazing tour driver for Angkor Wat. He is incredibly friendly, always with a smile! He speaks English very well, and provides unlimited ice cold water throughout the day which is very much needed between temples. I can’t recommend him enough!!! It was also very good value… Nico R2024-07-09Verified Best tuktuk driver Great guy really helpful and very friendly. He speaks great English and is very informative. 100% recommend him to anyone who wants to get around Angkor Wot. carthaigh q2024-07-08Verified Great guy and guide We had a great three day temple tour with Kosal. We visited the temples around Angkor Way and also some a good bit further from Siem Reap. Doing it by tuc tic was great. Kosal is a really friendly guy., with good English. He was flexible and was a real pleasure to get to know. He is honest and very punctual. Hire him, you won't go wrong. cecilia f2024-07-05Verified Temples Kosal is great for a tour in Cambodia. He is very predisposed, friendly and helpful, and is always willing to adapt the tour to your interests. With your knowledge and kindness, you ensure a unique and memorable experience. Fully recommended. Thomas T2024-07-02Verified Tuktuk driver Amazing lad great time, took us around where we need to go and informed us on the history, speaks great English too. Def recommend and may ask him again Tim M2024-06-24Verified Highly recommended! We spent an amazing 2 days with Kosal. He gave us the history of each temple we visited as well as plenty more information about Cambodia, past and present. He made a few stops along the way and told us about farming practices and traditional building methods. It was a very interesting and informative experience. Kosal is a great guy, he speaks good English and is a very safe driver too! Jana-Alin B2024-06-11Verified Best Tuk Tuk driver Kosal drove us to our hotel when we arrived in Siem Reap and told us a lot about the city during the short drive, including a short language course. We liked him so much that we booked our two Angkor tours with him. Unfortunately, he didn't have time for our first tour (sunset), but he organized a tour with his brother, which was also great. On the second day, we did the sunrise tour with him and it was amazing. We were always provided with water and were able to leave our backpack in the tuk tuk. Kosal knows so much about the temples and Cambodia's history that he is both a tuk tuk driver and a tour guide. You can have a great conversation with him, also about every day stuff and he speaks very good English. And he is so nice and friendly. We can absolutely recommend Kosal and would book a tour with him again at any time.
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History
The coexistence of hindu and buddhist elements and lacking of foundation stele or inscriptions make somewhat difficult dating this temple. It is generally ascribed to Jayavarman VIII reign, but it seems difficult to explain how the buddhist imageries could have survive from the iconoclast fury of that epoch. Maybe it was built in different periods: the sanctuary in the first half of 12th century, while the gopura in the late 13th or early 14th century. The temple was cleaned by Henri Marchal in 1918-19, while the gopura was restored by anastylosis by Maurice Glaize in 1937-38.
Description
The temple has a cross-shaped terrace, 8.5 m by 30 m long, with seven-headed nāga balaustrades in good conditions, on the east, guarded by two decapitated dvarapalas and a lion (of an original two). A 33 m-long causeway connects it to the single sandstone gopura. Before the laterite enclosure 50 m square there is a shrine with a 3 m tall statue of Buddha, sitting on a lotus, of a later period.
The gopura has three entrances, the east-facing pediment of the northern one shows “the offering of the animals in the forest of Parilyyaka”, where the Buddha retreated after leaving Kosambi. It seems that the origin of Pralilay could have been the alteration of the name Parilyyaka.[1] Even the other pediments shows exemplary scenes of Buddha.The sandstone sanctuary stands on a three tiered basement, 6 m high in overall. It has a 5 m square central chamber that opens to the four cardinal points with as many vestibules. Their classical ornamentations, unfortunately ruined, suggest that the sanctuary belongs to the first half of the 12th century and is older than the gopura. Even the characteristic “chimney-like” tower that stands above seems to be a later addition, maybe a frame for a covering.
Some parts of the pediments have been taken away for safe-keeping, others lying on the ground. The visibile parts show Indra on his mount, the elephant Airavata, and the assault of the demoniac army of Mara.
At the present time there is a little buddhist monastery near the temple and the presence of the monks in its area is not uncommon.