Preah Khan Kompong Svay

We have visited this big temple area in the forest on our way from Kompong Thom (base for Sambor Prei Kuk) to the BeTreed Adventures Eco Project. Actually the temple was a recommendation from Sharyn who runs BeTreed with her husband Ben for many years to stop along the way. We had to tell our private driver arranged by BeTreed to return as he had already passed the place. I only found out later that it´s a tentative WHS. I was only semi keen on visiting the temple at that moment of time as I had already seen quite a few of the Khmer WHS temples and was expecting similar.

Actually the experience was much better on site than expected. There were some guards hanging around and some local women were harvesting something from the bush. We were the only visitors. Only a small part of the big area of the temple that is marked by a rectangular moat can be easily visited. The access road leads to the entrance over the inner moat. From there it´s possible to pass through three building ruins until the jungle starts directly behind the third. According to the map the temple continues all the way through to a river, but we had only limited team and without machete and probably guide this was the area that was easy to visit. It was still a lot and we spend an hour in the ruins. Also along the paths between the main …