The most dramatically situated of all the Angkorian monuments, 800m-long Pra-sat Preah Vihear is perched high atop an escarpment in the Dangkrek Mountains (elevation 625m). The views are breathtaking: lowland Cambodia, 550m below, stretches as far as the eye can see, with the holy mountain of Phnom Kulen (p152) looming in the distance.
Prasat Preah Vihear, an important place of pilgrimage during the Angkorian period, was built by a succession of seven khmer monarchs,
beginning with Yasovarman I (r889-910) and ending with Suryavarman II (r 1112-1115), builder of Angkor wat. Like other temple-mountain from this period, it was designed to represent Mt Meru and was dedicated to the Hindu deity Shiva, though, unlike Angkor Wat, it's laid out along a north-to-south processional axis.
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