Koh Ker tour

Photographs of Koh Ker A selection of photographs of Koh Ker, aka Chok Gargyar or Lingapura, as it was originally named.  The ruined city is a remote site lying in the forest some 3 hours northeast of Siem Reap in Preah Vihear Province.  For a brief period in the first half of the 10th century, the ‘City of Lingas’ replaced…

Angkor period ruined temple Came across this nameless Angkor period ruined temple whilst poking around in some villages outside of Siem Reap recently. Even the locals weren’t sure of the name and although these days, the few remaining stones scattered across the grounds of a contemporary Buddhist don’t really merit the term ‘temple’ it’s interesting to think that even these…