Things to do in Sot Nikum

Pub Street is a vibrant and lively area with plenty of restaurants, bars, and entertainment. The atmosphere is fun and welcoming, making it a great place to spend an evening in Siem Reap. While busy and tourist-focused, it offers a good variety of food, drinks and nightlife option

【Pre Rup Temple】 Pre Rup Temple is located about 1.5 kilometers south of East Mebon Temple. It is also a pyramid-like building. It was built in the same period as East Mebon Temple, but its scale is larger than that of East Mebon Temple. Pre Rup Temple is the place where cremation ceremonies are performed. Pre Rup Temple (PRE RUP) is the temple where the ancient royal family was cremated and transformed into gods, also known as the Transfiguration Tower. You can see traces of burning. Thousands of years ago, ceremonies were held here. It must have been a gathering of dignitaries and could not be entered casually.

Angkor, Royal Park This park is located near the museum. If you come, you can include it in your one-day itinerary. This park is free and open, covers a large area, and has a full range of recreational facilities and some fitness equipment.

Prasat Kravan is a small, easily overlooked temple which you will likely pass on the way to Pre-Rup temple. But it's definitely worth stopping. The carvings in one of the chambers are really impressive.

A white, small villa with a surrounding garden and a red sloping roof. The golden relief on the front is very eye-catching. The colonnade is quite delicate and it is easy to find in the core area of ​​the city.

The south gate of the Great Angkor Thom is the main passage for tourists to the Great Angkor Thom. Zhou Daguan once recorded, "There are five large stone Buddha heads above the city gate, facing the west. One of them is placed in the middle and decorated with gold. On both sides of the gate, there are carved stones. For pictograms.” It can be seen that the South Gate was very magnificent at that time, symbolizing the prosperous national power of Khmer.

This is the oldest temple in Siem Reap. According to information, there are well-preserved murals at the end of the 19th century in the temple, which is also famous for its beautiful murals. The walls of the old Buddhist temple are white, and the top is Cambodian temple style, i.e. three-storey spire structure. Religious stories are carved on the eyebrows. A thick layer of earth has fallen on the top, and the window frames and doorframes are carved with patterns. The surface of the wall has cracked. It seems that it has not been maintained and repaired for a long time. The hall is surrounded by a circular corridor. The guardrail outside the circular corridor is decorated with Buddha statues and patterns. On each side of the outer guardrail of the circular corridor is an arched gate. Above the lintel is a four-sided Buddha statue. On each side of the statue is a god bird and an unnamed monster. Outside each door there is a pair of stone carvings. The stone carvings of the four doors seem different. The stone carvings of the two doors are lions and elephants, and the other two doors are not remembered. It is said that the murals are kept in this Buddhist temple, but the door is locked and can not be seen. To the east of the ancient Buddhist temple are the Tallins and the Burning Towers, where people are cremated into heaven in this way. Close to the north of this ancient Buddhist temple is a beige semi-open-air building surrounded by circular beams above the two pillars of the column structure and low barrier walls below. It's like a place for collective activities. There is a large hall building to the north, where the door is open. We look inside out of curiosity and courage, and nobody stops us, so we take off our shoes and go in to visit (because there are several pairs of shoes in the door). When preparing to leave, an old woman came to the temple with several children to give alms. They brought a large pot of soup and vegetables. It was said that every day the donors came to the temple to give food. The monks ate a hundred kinds of food. In a large hall room (I really don't know what to call this room a living room, dining room, Buddhist hall or auditorium), there is a Buddha statue on the inside of the hall. In front of the Buddha statue, there are lotus flowers and other donations on both sides. At the entrance of the Buddhist hall, there was a long wooden cave. A young master was sitting on the wooden cave to receive the old woman who had just given the alms. On the wooden cave, there was food from other donors. On the wall above the wooden collapse hangs pictures of many monks, presumably of the monastery's elite monks of all ages, with Cambodia's national flag and religious flag printed on the top. This hall is very clean. The tile floor is shiny and there are many carpets sitting on the floor beside the wall. Everyone who enters the hall must put their shoes outside. On the other side of the hall were two rows of small tables, each covered with a fly-proof cover and an aluminium pot. An older monk and a volunteer are preparing lunch. It is said that the monk's meal is strictly time-bound. He only eats two meals a day. He must finish his lunch before 11 o'clock. After that time, he can't eat any more. It's 10:10. It's estimated that dinner will be ready soon. Because we had to rush to the Luoluo Temple, we couldn't wait for the monks to have dinner before we left.

This is a very small attraction in Cambodia, but the area of ​​this temple is really large. It is also a temple that I accidentally punched in. I originally wanted to walk from the night market to the Siem Reap Post Office, but I saw such a large temple, and it was full of many historical stories, so I stopped here and spent about half an hour to visit it.

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