Bakong Temple near Siem Reap: The First Great Temple-Mountain of Angkor
Angkor Wat may be the monument everyone comes to Cambodia to see, but the architectural idea behind it began developing centuries earlier. About 15 kilometres southeast of Siem Reap, in the Roluos area, Bakong preserves one of the most important stages in that story. Consecrated in 881 during the reign of Indravarman I, Bakong was…