Eastern Cambodia - Cambodia - page 533

3 Mekong Hotel C2

4 Mekong Sunrise C3

5 Monorom 2 VIP Hotel D2

Eating

Chaplin's Bar & Restaurant (see 1)

Destiny Coffee House (see 7)

6 Lazy Mekong Daze C3

7 Mekong Crossing C2

Smile Restaurant (see 5)

Sights & Activities

There's still a fair-sized population of Cham Muslims around (hence the name 'Kompong
Cham'). One Cham village is on the left (east) bank of the Mekong north of the French
lighthouse. Its big, silver-domed mosque is clearly visible from the right bank. Another
one is south of the bridge just beyond Wat Day Doh , which is worth a wander en route.
Aerobics OFFLINE MAP takes place on the riverfront near the bridge at dusk if you want to
get down with the locals.

Wat Nokor
(admission US$2) The original fusion temple, Wat Nokor is a modern Theravada Buddhist
pagoda squeezed into the walls of an 11th-century Mahayana Buddhist shrine of sand-
stone and laterite. It is a kitsch kind of place and many of the older building's archways
have been incorporated into the new building as shrines for worship. On weekdays there
are only a few monks in the complex and it's peaceful to wander among the alcoves and
their hidden shrines. The entry price includes admission to Phnom Pros and Phnom Srei
( Click here ) , just outside of town.
To get here, head out of town on the NH7 to Phnom Penh, and take the left fork at the
large roundabout, 2.5km west of the bridge in Kompong Cham. The temple is a couple of
hundred metres down a pretty dirt road.

BUDDHIST TEMPLE

Koh Paen

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