I knew this ruin by the site
"Sundial, calendar & Khmer
temples" of
Mr.Asger Mollerup.
This Ruin is 11.5km far from Prasat Ta Muan Thom.
And the locatoon of this ruin is on the
border between Gombodia and Thai.
It's still not clear which country
this belongs to.
And there might be a lot of land mines near
here.
Firstly I left for the base No.2602
of the border army.
The road from R224 to there was too bad.
The under body of my car
contacted to the ground.
When I arrived at the base No,2602 of the
border army,
I asked the army leader to lead
me to Prasat Ta Khwai.
(The army in here could not speak
English.)
And next we went to the second base in the
jungle by the motorbike through rubber plantation, over the
reservior and across the small river.
This second base didn't
have any supply of the electricity.
And it fenced the
stockade made with woody spears, and there were a lot of the
isolated bases.
Pigs were fed for the provisions,
maybe.
And then we walked to Prast Ta Khwai together with
soldiers with a rifle through the path in
jungle.
The soldiers walked fast. I could follow them
scarcely.
If it's rainy season, nobody could go there.
And
even if in dry seaon, there might be the risk of poisonous snakes,
malarian mosquitos in jungle.
But when I arrived at this ruin and find this,
I was
stirred.

Inside of the
main tower, there was a "Linga" of natural rock.
There were a lot of black grains.
These
are droppings of bats.

I looked up into
the roof of the main tower.
Before the relief was
carved, the time stopped.

From west side of
the main tower.
South slope of
the mountain.
There were a big rock with
several holes.
These holes might be used for the pillars of the
woody building.

A
soldier is taking a rest by putting the rifle on the rock.
This ruin was in tropical forest.

When you go to the second
base, you need to cross this woody bridge over the small river.
From the bank of this reservoir I
looked back toward the mountain of Prasat Ta Khwai.
On the way that I
returned back to the base No,2602, a tire of our motorbike went
flat.
When we visit this border area, we should be
careful to study whether we go or not, because the relation between Thai
and Gombodia is not so good as of about Jun-2010, sometimes the news of
the conflict happen.