Is an ancient site located at the Southeast of Kampong Cham province, at
Prey Nor Kor village, Daun Tey Commune, Ponhea Krek district in the
distance of 42 Kilometers from the provincial town of Kampong Cham. Prey
Nor Kor Knong-Krau temple can be accessible by the National Road No 7
and turn right by a trail at Dam Nak Cha village. This resort has five
trails at the public gathering place of Daun Tey Commune such as: - The
trail at the public gathering place of Knar has six-kilometre distance. -
The distance from the main road to Preah Theat is five kilometers. - he
distance from the main road to Preah Theat is five kilometers.
The
distance from the trail to Dam Nak Cha is 10 Kilometres. - The distance
from Poan Chrey to Prey Nor Kor Knong is 5.3 Kilometres. The resort of
Prey Nor Kor Knong-Krau temple is the gathering place where the local
people and tourists meet each other for enjoying popular games and
religious purpose during the traditional festival. The Temple of Prey
Nor Kor has the same form to the temple of Sam Bour Prey Kuk, and it was
built in the 9th century. Until the assassinated plan set up by the
princess of Kun Bot he had mobilized troop to fight successfully against
the princess. Prey Nor Kor Knong-Krau temple has 2500-square meter
landarea consisting of: - Thum Temple: Located on high hill of the
Khoeun of present temple. It included three temples made of solid brick:
one at the left was completely damaged and other two temples remain
good forms. Inside these two temples, there are some statues and broken
ancient objects remain.
The local people believe that the temples
have been protected and maintained by sacred spirit if tourists would
like to photograph the two temples, they should light incense to pray
for allowance first otherwise the picture of the two temples do not
appear in their cameras.- Preah Theat Temple: Located at the East of
Thum temple. It included six temples, which were damaged by war. At the
present, there is one temple remains but it is almost collapsed because
of digging in search of treasure. - Preay Theat Pond: Located at the
Northeast of the Thum temple. At that time, there was a Pond called Ku
Teuk. - Koh An Det or Kor Prak (30 meter length by 20 meter width): or
another name called Sras Toem located at the North of the village. - Tum
Nup or Kam Pheng Poat Chum Vinh: Located around the city of Prey Nor
Kor Knong-Krau and was planted the complex and inaccessible wild bamboo.
- This dam has approximate 10-metre height, 15-metre vertical angle,
and square angle; each angle has 2,500 Metres. Some parts of the dam
have been damaged.
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