This wat is also in Sisophon, and has a beautiful, new pagoda in the center. The wooden doors and windows are elaborately carved and painted sky blue. It's surrounded by the monastery and stupas. In the corner of the site is a ghastly genocide memorial with a bunch of skulls and bones encased in a glass box. They might have been removed from on of the mass graves around here.
An old government lookout tower is perched just across the street. They used it to track the movements of the Khmer Rouge. I read that visitors can still go up there to look at the view, but the walk alone through dense trees was not appealing.
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