Thursday, July 7, 2016


The Mebon frames an island amidst the western baray and is just open by pontoon since the raising of the water level. To visit, one ought to be joined by a guide.45 In some courses reminiscent of the delightful group of Neak Pean - manufactured a century later in the center of the Prah Khan baray - the Mebon was framed by a levee of earth that encases a square of a hundred meters. This was then unearthed as a bowl and lined with sandstone steps. The middle is set apart by a stage, additionally in sandstone, of twelve meters every side joined by a laterite and sandstone interstate to the eastern barrier. A few pieces of naga-balustrades on squares have additionally been found. The encompassing bank has three little passage structures on every side with two contradicting entryways, all in sandstone, set around 25 meters apart and as a solitary layered tower with an expansive eight-petaled lotus crown. Lamentably gravely demolished they now stay just as heaps of rubble, aside from the focal eastern also, southern towers which, disintegrating and very temperamental, have been the object of some clearing and reclamation work. The bases of a few dividers still remain on the north (focal and eastern towers), south (focal tower) and east (north tower) sides. Every structure is square in arrangement, measuring 2m.40 in general and 1m.28 inside.