Prasat Prei

Prasat Prei
"The forest sanctuary"
Date: late 12th - early 13th century
King: Jayavarman VII (posthumous name: Maha paramasangata pada)
Cult: Buddhist
Clearing: H. Mauger in 1934

After the ninth kilometer marker stone and just past the course Fombertaux prompting the eastern passage of Prah Khan, one takes a woods track to one side. At around 100 meters on the left, roosted on a hillock, stands Prasat Prei.

Encased by a solitary laterite divider - the majority of which has caved in - this sanctuary comprises of the remaining parts of a gopura in laterite and sandstone and afterward a sandstone haven opening toward the east, shaping a tower with four upper levels went before by a vestibule that has been restored. The asylum chamber, with three false entryways - shaped on the outside - is cruciform in arrangement and 2m.90 in width.

The improvement is connected with no eccentricity to the style of the Bayon (thick ornamentation, devatas, false windows with brought down blinds) while the frontons have been mutilated.

In the patio - where on the southern side a seriously demolished laterite and sandstone "library" has a formed false way toward the east - an intriguing chariot being pulled by bulls was discovered, set on a base. It has been uprooted to the Bayon figures storeroom.