Koulen Mountain and Sras Damrei ( Private Tour)

Koulen Mountain and Sras Damrei ( Private Tour)

At 7:00 AM pick up from hotel / Airport.

MORNING (08:00AM) 

Our professional tour guide and driver will escort you to visit Koulen mountain it will be take around one and a haft hour to reach the hill. along the way you will see local village, rice field and their daily life. While you on the hill at first, you going to visit the Preah Ang Thom “ The biggest Buddha Status” then visit 1000 Lingas and waterfall.

After lunch you will take motorbikes to visit the previous Royal Palace was built in 802 by the king Jayarvarman II after that you going to visit the hidden temple and nice view with elephants status we called “ Sras Damrie ” that is a largest, sandstone sculpture.

Back to City and Overnight at Hotel.

Phnom Koulen National Park is a National park in Cambodia. It is located in the Phnom Koulen mountain massif in Siem Reap Province. During Angkorian era the relief was known as Mahendraparvata (the mountain of Great Indra) and was the place where Jayavarman II had himself declared chakravartin (King of Kings), an act which is considered the foundation of Khmer Empire.

On the hill beside water fall you can see the previous Royal Palace, Chup Preah the plain spot where having cool water flows and is located at the mountain’s valley, Terrace of Sdach Kamlung is a plain terrace with a small ruined temple made of bricks in the middle. The terrace was once covered with lava. Preah Ang Thom is an 8 meter tall statue of the reclining Buddha reaching nirvana. The statue is carved into a huge sandstone boulder and Srah Damrei is a large, sandstone sculpture of an elephant. It is joined by several other smaller sculptures which have been dated to the 8th or 9th centuries.