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Visit Pongro village, Banteay Meanchey

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If you travel to Banteay Chhmar temple during raining season from Sisiphon district to Thmor Puok districk. You will across one village call "Pongro village", the people in this village always havest corn every year, so if you want to eat corn can buy corn. They are made by hand the people who live in that village. It is delicious when we burn it. In this village people always grow corn in the farm on the mountain during the raining season, and in the field rice in the drying season near the pound which have enough water for corn or water milon. You see this burn corn sound delicous. Please try to buy and burn corn to eat your taste with burn corn!

Banteay Chhmar Temple

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Banteay Chhmar, rarely visited temple to the North-West of Angkor, was one of the capitals of Jayavarman II and dedicated to his son and four generals who were killed in battle repelling a Cham invasion in 1177. Banteay Chmar, because of its secluded location, received a few visitors only and waits to be discovered. If you go to visit during Khmer New Year, there are a lot visitors temple and you can play game with people live there, It is a remote and ruined temple with massive face-towers and intricate carvings shrouded in mist and jungle vegetation conjures up all the romanticism of a lost Khmer city. One such place where this is a reality is Banteay Chhmar in the northwestern corner of Cambodia, close to the border with near neighbor Thailand. Never fully excavated and inaccessible for decades due to Khmer Rouge activity in the area, Banteay Chhmar ("Narrow Fortress") was constructed late in the 12th century, allegedly as the funerary temple of King Jayarvarman VII's...