Prasat Chau Say Tevoda

This guide to Prasat Chau Say Tevoda in Siem Reap opens with a puzzle: how do you rebuild a twelfth-century sanctuary when four thousand of its carved stones have gone missing, some sunk in the Siem Reap River, others hauled off as landfill. You'll hear how the temple, built under King Suryavarman the second and paired with its twin Thommanon, kept collapsing long after that neighbor was restored, and how a Chinese heritage team eventually took on sorting the wreckage by hand. Along the way it traces the shrine's shift between Hindu and Buddhist imagery on its gateway carvings.