Kampong Thom Province : ប្រាសាទសម្បូរព្រៃគុក
Sambor Prei Kuk Temple is located in Sambor Village, Sambor Commune, Sambor District, Kampong Thom Province. The temple is located along the Sen River, about 28 kilometers northeast of Kampong Thom Provincial Capital, and about 181 kilometers from the Angkor capital of Siem Reap Province, and about 170 kilometers from Preah Vihear Temple in Preah Vihear Province, and about 196 kilometers from Phnom Penh. Sambor Prei Kuk Temple is a cultural and historical site, about 37 kilometers away, turn onto National Road 64, turn right along Sala Sektar, and cross Bos Sramoch Road. This road is flooded during the rainy season, but we can only travel to Sambor District. Built on a flat land with an area of 3,000 hectares. Sambor Prei Kuk Temple is an old capital called Esanpura, which was at that time the center of Brahmanism to dedicate to Shiva or Esora. The temple complex is built of mud bricks and dried rice stones, decorated with carvings on the bricks, poured with mortar, and made of brick panels, but now some of them are destroyed. The carvings and writing in diamond words, the door frames are all made of sandstone. The temple was built during the reign of King Isanvarman I in the 7th century (616-635 AD) during the Chenla period. The Sambor Prei Kuk temple complex has been abandoned since 1971 and was reorganized in 1980. In the forest clearing, a total of 140 temples were found, and the remaining temples have not been found yet. The Sambor Prei Kuk site is divided into 4 major groups: the Northern Temple Group, the Central Temple Group, the Southern Temple Group, and the Kraol Romeas Temple Group.