Phnom Udong Cambodia | A former Khmer capital
Phnom Udong You wouldn’t guess today, looking at the scrub-covered low hills surrounded by paddy-fields and red-roofed temples, that the site of Phnom Udong (also written Phnom Oudong) some 40 kilometres north of Phnom Penh, was for a long period the capital of the Khmer kingdom. As in Angkor times, only religious edifices such as the surrounding temples and various…