Battambang is the second city of Cambodia after Phnom Penh was founded in the 11th century, is located in the heart of Northwest Cambodia's border with the Thailand. This is the main producing province of rice in the country and Buddhist shrines.
Located 40 km west of the Tonle Sap, the city along the Sangker River, the surrounding countryside houses old pagodes, ruins era Angkorian, caves, waterfalls.Places of interest include Phnom Sampeu, a hill with the statues of Buddha caves; Prasat Snung in the 12th century, Wat Banan: a temple of Angkor now occupied as a Buddhist Sanctuary; Wat Baydamram where reside the thousands of frugivorous bats and Wat Ek Phnom.
The name Battambang or Batdambang, literally means "loss of stick" referring to a legend of Preah Bat Dambang Kranhoung.
This "lost stick" would have belonged to one of the fallers, who worked in the forest, wanted to Cook rice but had no spoon. He picked up a branch of Rokar as utensil and when he mixed his rice, it became black. As he was hungry he decided to eat it and as soon as his meal ends, he felt invaded a great power. He was able to break a branch of Cheutal and he then cut the trunk of a Kranhoung, a tree whose wood is deemed as hard as iron. This trunk, he is made a weapon, which won him the nickname of Dambang Kranhoung (Kranhoung stick). Before such power, he formed an army to capture the throne with his stick.
The years spent.Seven years later, he had to fight a son of the former Royal family who had on a white horse to capture the throne. The King Dambang Kranhoung prepared to combat, the young prince on his steed voya jumped above the royal palace.King Dambang he threw his stick in the air to kill him, but missed its target. The stick landed in a vast secluded forest called today still Bat dambong 'Battambang', the forest of the "lost stick".
Attractions in Battambang
Cruise on the Sangke River with lunch picnic on board:
- Lunch picnic to edge and cruise on the Sangke River .
Discovery of the manufacture of rice cakes:
On the road, you will be able to assist in the manufacture of cakes of rice by a local family and communicate with people on their daily lives.
Bamboo train experience :
- Reinstalled by the villagers to facilitate the transport of the goods, you will take place on a bamboo platform covered with cushions and you travel 8 km on this train reduced to its simplest expression, through beautiful landscapes of rice fields.
Tower of orientation in Tuk - Tuk in Battambang town :
- Discovery of the city of Battambang, a charming city where you can observe the elegance of the houses of the French colonial style along the River with a first round of orientation in Tuk - Tuk.
Visit around Battambang
Vat EK Phnom :
Wat ek Phnom is a Hindu temple whose construction started in 1027 during the Bayon period, during the reign of Suryavarman
Located 10 km north of the Cobra I bridge. It consists of several prasats connected by a platform. Today, only a few sculptures are still in relatively good condition. Since a more recent pagoda was built next to the ruins of the first temple. This temple, with the ruins of the temple, is the center of the festivities of the day for the people of the village nearby. They dress in their best Sunday and have a celebration between old and new temples and climb around the ruins with their families.
Phnom Banoan :
Wat Banan, located south of Battambang town, 25 kilometres from the provincial town.Begun in 1057 during the reign of Udaya dityavarman II (1050-1066) and then completed a century later by Jayavarman VII (1181-1219), it is built on top of a mountain about 400 metres. At the top of the Hill, accessible by a staircase of laterite of 358 walks.
This temple of the mountain is certainly worth a glance. At the top, you can admire the beautiful views of the meandering River Sangker defined in the palms of sugar, rice fields and small villages. To the South, you will see a chain of mountains which showcases a crocodile-shaped mountain.
Even today, it is very popular Khmer families who like to go there in picnic and admire the magnificent landscape at their feet.
Phnom Sampov :
The mountain offers a beautiful panorama on the rice of Battambang.
Phnom Sampeou means 'Mountain of ship' because its particular form reminiscent of a ship, is a natural site located at 18 Km from the city of Battambang. at the top of a mountain of 100-metres high with 700 steps, is a pagoda and three natural caves: Pkasla, Lakhaon and Aksopheak.
-Cave of Pkasla is full of stones uprooted and is considered as important, because it is where residents of Phnom Sampeou come celebrate after a marriage. side of Phnom Sampeou, there are several mountains important.
Phnom Sampov offers a beautiful panorama on the rice of Battambang.
Village Wat Kor :
Wat Kor village houses of very old traditional houses Khmer. This village, consisting of many houses typical of the beginning of the last century which is mostly made of precious wood, houses many growers who every day go to the market to sell their crops.
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