Photo log of my trip to Phnom Bok mountain, near Siem Reap, Cambodia
This is a sacred temple site, located on the top of Phnom Bok in Siem Reab province, Cambodia.
To reach the site you have to climb a very long and steep staircase, wich is very exhausting and sweaty when the sun is out, imaging climbing the stairs in the picture below at 40 degrees celcius...
This is the view you get when you reach the top of the hill.
Now i will show you what the actual temple site looks like. Its also part of the Angkor Wat complex, wich is huge, and has temples and sacred sites in many locations in the province. This particular hill is about 2 hours by motorcycle from the city of Siem Reap.
Pictures dont do this place justice but for me it was an amazing experience. Just thinking about how they got all the stone building materials up that steep hill, its quite an impressive feat of engineering and craftsmanship, not to mention the elaborate and intricate carvings on the walls. Its also not been excavated or reconstructed, so it really feels almost as if you are the first person to ever lay eyes upon the site. When I visited the site, i had the place all to myself, nobody else was there, it was an experience i will never forget and thats why i decided to share this adventure with the steemit community.
Hope you get somewhat of an impression of what it was like.
Thanks for reading this post :)
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STOPThis is pretty cool. I like the image of the building with the tree growing at the top. It must have been a lot of work haling those blocks up the hill. Do you know how old the buildings are? When they were constructed?
im pretty sure more than 1000 years ago
Hmm, a bit before my time...Not much though. 😂
Did you get a weird feeling being there with so much history around you?
I feel i the whole region of Siem Reap and especially Angkor Wat has a very special and strong energy to it, and the way i percieve it, a very positive and nice energy, i believe this is a place of higher frequency of vibration. I feel great here to be honest. I love in Siem Reap city about 5 km from the main temple of Angkor Wat.
Yes, that's how I imagine it to be so thanks for confirming that. A friend of mine at work (Viet-Cambodian heritage) was there this year volunteering in a school...She loved the experience and will do it again. I plan to visit at some stage...
Thanks for responding and your great post.