The temple is located along road No. 154 parallel to Sang Ke River around 22Km from Battambang City and it takes around 36 mn to reach there.
The temple is on the top of approximate 75m height mountain. Adapts the architecture of mid 11th century and the end of 12th century, the temple was first built by king, Ut Tak Yea Tit Tya Varman II (1050-1066) and then was finally built by the king, Jarvarman VII (1181-1219).
The shape of this temple is rectangle with 5 towels of which 4 towels is represented the 4 directions and the middle towel is represented Mount Merrito. At the mountain's valley, there are Ku Teuk and two main natural wells, namely: Bit Meas and Chhung or Chhung Achey.
Towards the base of the mountain is a cave called L’Ang But Meas, it is quite a scramble down the mountainside to reach it, but worth it. After squeezing through an easy to miss fissure in a small rocky outcrop and after a couple of short squatted crawls the cave opens into two magical large airy caverns, with a shaft of light penetrating from above. Here you will see a large stalactite hanging from the ceiling with sacred sparkling water dripped from it into a bowl below. Local legend says that drinking this water leads to knowledge of the past, present, and future. The short walk around the base of the mountain back to the car park passes through a peaceful stretch of countryside where you can listen to the birds, skirt a small pond, and pass a very old traditional pagoda.
When you arrive Banan Temple, you need to take around 350 steps stair to reach the temple and you have two options to reach Bit Meas by go down another path or go down by the same path and follow the sign. We would advise to access the same path as the other path is a bit risk.
The temple is on the top of approximate 75m height mountain. Adapts the architecture of mid 11th century and the end of 12th century, the temple was first built by king, Ut Tak Yea Tit Tya Varman II (1050-1066) and then was finally built by the king, Jarvarman VII (1181-1219).
The shape of this temple is rectangle with 5 towels of which 4 towels is represented the 4 directions and the middle towel is represented Mount Merrito. At the mountain's valley, there are Ku Teuk and two main natural wells, namely: Bit Meas and Chhung or Chhung Achey.
Towards the base of the mountain is a cave called L’Ang But Meas, it is quite a scramble down the mountainside to reach it, but worth it. After squeezing through an easy to miss fissure in a small rocky outcrop and after a couple of short squatted crawls the cave opens into two magical large airy caverns, with a shaft of light penetrating from above. Here you will see a large stalactite hanging from the ceiling with sacred sparkling water dripped from it into a bowl below. Local legend says that drinking this water leads to knowledge of the past, present, and future. The short walk around the base of the mountain back to the car park passes through a peaceful stretch of countryside where you can listen to the birds, skirt a small pond, and pass a very old traditional pagoda.
When you arrive Banan Temple, you need to take around 350 steps stair to reach the temple and you have two options to reach Bit Meas by go down another path or go down by the same path and follow the sign. We would advise to access the same path as the other path is a bit risk.
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