Preah Vihea Temple (Video inside)

Prasat Preah Vihea view from top

Cambodia has a lot of ancient temple in most provinces. Among those, Prasat Preah Vihea is a sacred shrine which located on the very high and smooth plateau along the Dang Rek Mountain in Preah Vihea province. This shrine first built by the King Yasa Varaman in 9^th century. All forms of this temple are the basic of Khmer Arts include planning, building drafts, and other sculptures. On the sculptures we can only see ancient Khmer Script and Sanskrit. These evidences clearly verify that “Preah Vihea” belonging to Cambodia.

Under French colony, Preah Vihea temple was controlled by Siem (Thailand). In 1962, under the premiership of King Norodom Sihanouk, the King had tried all his best in demanding by peaceful talk. Finally the international court as Lahe had judgedin unanimity that Preah Vihea belonged to Cambodia on 15^th June, 1962.

This enthusiastic news had spread across the whole country that made all Khmer people very happy and cheerful to congratulate in accepting this temple which was becoming as the Khmer Heritage as before.For this testimony of satisfaction, the chief of state, King Norodom Sihanouk made as formal visiting to Preah Vihea to be symbol of Khmer Heritage on 5^th January, 1963.

Recently, we had introduced Preah Vihea into world Heritage which prepared by UNESCO on 7^th July, 2008.

For detail please find as below video link:

https://youtu.be/hzLnNGtZJHs?sub_confirmation=1


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