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    March 2, 2025

    Wat Phnom is probably the most famous stupa in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.

    Built on a 27-meter-high artificial hill with a diameter of 300 meters, it is the highest religious building in the city. The sanctuary is accessible via stairs and ramps.

    According to legend, the wealthy widow Daun Chi Penh had the building constructed in 1372 after she found five Buddha statues, four of them made of bronze and one of stone, in a Koki tree trunk on the banks of the Mekong, which had been washed downstream by a large flood wave. She had the hill piled up northeast of her house and the temple that was to house the statues built from the washed-up tree trunks. She gave the complex the name Wat Phnom Daun Penh. Phnom means "hill" in Khmer, and this formed the nucleus of the city, whose name literally translates as "Hill Penh". Incidentally, Wat means "temple".

    Source: de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Phnom

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      February 3, 2023

      Worth a visit. Free.

        April 19, 2025

        No longer free... But only a $1 entrance fee. A hornbill lives in the trees.

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