Preah Vihear temple

We hired car and driver for the day and spent the morning driving about 1 1/2 hours to Prasat Preah Vihear, an ancient Angkor temple (and now a World Heritage Site) located in a dramatic mountaintop setting along the long-disputed Thai-Cambodian border. Construction of the temple took place from the 9th through the 12th centuries and was dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva. In two separate rulings (the most recent in 2013), the International Court of Justice has ruled that the temple belongs to Cambodia.Read more