Travel to Laos Rachathani Ubol – Wat Phu Champasak Laos
Wat Phou is a dilapidated or Khmer temple complex of Wat Phu in southern Laos. Situated at the foot of Mount Phu Kao, some 6 km from the Mekong river in Champassak province. There was a temple on the site of the 5th century, but the surviving structures date from 11th to 13th Century. The temple has a unique structure in which elements lead to a shrine where a linga was immersed in water from a mountain spring. The site later became a cult center of Theravada Buddhism, theIt remains to this day. Wat Phu for the first time with the city Shrestapura lying on the banks of the Mekong River just east of Mount Lingaparvata (now Phu Kao connected). [1] By the second half of the 5th century, the city was the capital of a kingdom that was constructed texts and inscriptions with two Chenla and Champa, and the first facility in the mountains during this period. [2] The spiritual significance of mountains produced by the linga-shaped protuberance on its summit, theMonte was therefore considered the home of Shiva, and as a representative of the sea or river Ganges. [3] The temple was dedicated to Shiva, of course, as the water source, the show just after the temple was considered sacred. Wat Phu was part of Angkor Khmer Empire centered in the southwest, at least since the reign of Yashovarman I in the early 10th Century. Shrestapura has been replaced by a new city of Angkor in the period directly…