It’s a good
idea for a trip in January when the weather is getting cold and fresh during
the dry season in Cambodia. For me, if I can to choose which place I
wanna visit, I’ll choose my favorite historic and natural place, Banan hill or Banan
temple.
One of the many attractive places in
Battambong province of Cambodia, Banan temple is far from the provincial town about 15
kilometers. The temple is located on the top of the hill which height about 100
meters.
I love that Banan hill has about 358 stone steps that surly
make everyone sweats and have fun to climb up.
I remember when I got on the top of
the hill I could see the first tower of the temple standing right in front of
me and I felt like succeed because I was finally on the top.
Banan temple has
five towers just similar to layout of Angkor Wat temple but each tower standing
single without any connection to one another.
Inside of each tower is like the
dark cave so if you wanna go there be ready to find the light to see what's inside. Sometime there have some bats. Talking about the history of this temple, It was started to
build at the mid of 11 century left unfinished until the beginning of 13 century, finished by the
king Jayavarman VII.
Banan hill has beautiful the
nature surrounded around the temple. We can look down to the ground from the top of hill just behind
the temple to see the rice field sprawling just like the green sky upside down because it's often so green.
Even though it was afternoon with the high heat of sunlight it’s still okay for people on the top of the hill because
there are so many trees around there with the fresh air and the silent of joy.
People can watch the sun set and taking photo then get down from the hill and
counting the stone steps before the sky getting dark.
I can say that I’m
really into that place since I was there for the first time. I love the natural
around there, the architecture of the temple and the view around it. I really impress Banan, not because of the
building of the temple but I impress those ancient people who carried all every
single heavy stones to the top of the high hill and built a temple that can standing there for hundreds of years.
It’s the place that always on my willing to go.
source: +google's picture
+my own experience there :)
vandara
