Prasat Ta Muen Thom is a great Khmer temple in the Dangrek mountains.

"Prasat Ta Muen Thom is a Khmer temple in the Dangrek mountains, where is located on the border of Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey Province and Thailand’s Surin Province. It is on the northwest of Samrong city about 50km go through Kouk Morn district and then direct to the north side until the Dangrek Mountains.  People in the villages nearby said that Prasat Ta Muen means that “Ta is referred to grandfather, Muen is referred to as magic (working by magic; having supernatural powers)”. It means that it is a magic hospital (No clear reference)".

Temple Info

Today, road the conditions to get there is good (new construction), you can drive car claim into the mountains and you need to walk about 100 or 150 meters to reach the temple. To reach this temple, you will need permission from the army first because this temple right now still has border conflict with Thailand (No worry, it is safety).

Prasat Ta Muen Toch ("Minor Temple of Grandfather Chicken"), the hospital chapel, lies two and a half kilometers to the northwest and just 300 meters beyond that is the rest house chapel, Prasat Ta Muen ("Temple of Grandfather Chicken"). During the 1980s-90s, when the Khmer Rouge controlled the area, the temples in the region were looted by the Khmer Rouge to finance their guerrilla campaign.

Many architectural pieces and original sculptures were stolen, sometimes detached using dynamite, and smuggled out of Cambodia or sold on the black market. These three temples, all within a few hundred meters of each other, formed a complex which was an essential stop on a major route of the Khmer Empire, the Ancient Khmer Highway from its capital at Angkor to its major administrative center in the northwest, Phimai (now in Thailand).

Temple Facts

Name: Prasat Ta Muen Thom (The magic hospital of the Khmer empire during the 11th century).
Creator: Udayadityavarman II
Completed: the 11th century
Affiliation: Hinduism
Deity: Shiva
Cultures: Khmer Empire
Address: It's about 50km from Kouk Mon district, Otdor Meanchey Province, Cambodia.


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