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Ah cool. I've ridden that river road to Kratie a few times but never spotted it. Will see if I can find it next time.kinard wrote:Yes, my badepidemiks wrote:...Is Kroachamer = Krouch Chhmar?
I've been to the one on Koh Rong Sanloem as I lived on the island for a while. I found those massive guns in front of it funny. With a sign that says you're not allowed to take pictures. In the house next to the lighthouse was a Cambodian man watching TV. I asked him for water, he gave me a cup. I asked him what he was doing. He just pointed at the TV. I asked him if he lived there. He said no, he'd be working. I asked him what he would work and he said he was a soldier. Sitting all day in a room watching TV. Best job!
DD coordinates 12.275339 105.651919epidemiks wrote:Ah cool. I've ridden that river road to Kratie a few times but never spotted it. Will see if I can find it next time.kinard wrote:Yes, my badepidemiks wrote:...Is Kroachamer = Krouch Chhmar?
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The old Chruoy Changvar "lighthouse" is something of a mystery. It was dubbed a lighthouse by the French no doubt because of its appearance, not because of its function as there apparently never was a light atop. From a 1884 book by a critical - not to say patronizing - French military officer who had been stationed in Phnom Penh: "...it's always the same: the lighthouse without a lantern, the ruined steamships, one without a boiler the other without a propeller, the dirty gilding..." Moreover, there was little need for a lighthouse as few boats/ships sailed at night in the old days. So perhaps it was a watchtower, as was the one across the Mekong from Kompong Cham city. More likely, however, it was a minaret, like the quite similar one which stands in Svay Khleang village in Kompong Cham province, whose wooden mosque was destroyed by the Khmer Rouge, as has been pointed out, leaving the brick tower. Chruoy Changvar has long been the home of Moslem communities, and today the peninsula counts four mosques. The question is when the tower disappeared. A "phare" (lighthouse) is marked on my 1920s map but there is no indication of an attached mosque. The same for my early 1950s map. This one even has a small drawing of the "lighthouse" which resembles photographs of the tower. However, the tower is not indicated on my more detailed 1945 map, although a mosque farther up the Mekong is. Finally, I once searched in vain for any trace of the tower; I could not even find even a pile of bricks. My best guess is that the tower was located somewhere to the northeast of the primary school down Tonle Sap Street, towards the tip of the peninsula.
:thumbs: I must have always taken gone straight on at the bridge.kinard wrote:DD coordinates 12.275339 105.651919epidemiks wrote:Ah cool. I've ridden that river road to Kratie a few times but never spotted it. Will see if I can find it next time.kinard wrote:Yes, my badepidemiks wrote:...Is Kroachamer = Krouch Chhmar?
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I found this old image of that tower recently. Interesting construction for a mosque, almost indistinguishable from any Buddhist pagoda building and quite unlike any of the more modern mosques in Cambodia.kinard wrote:Lighthouses in Cambodia
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From that thread, referring to the minaret above:
penisjokeforaname wrote:That definitely isn't a minaret. It's an old French light house come observation tower near a treacherous part of the Mekong north of Kampong Cham and just south of Chhlong, once a colonial port of some import.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
The tower in Kroa Chamer and the one that used to be on Chruoy Changva are very similar in appearance.
So, was there a mosque on the peninsula as well?
EDIT- there were at least 3 mosques on Chruoy Changva, but none close to the tower
I was thinking perhaps these were in fact 'watch towers' and there before mosques were built, as it would seem a bit odd to build a minaret, and then build a mosque that didn't look like a mosque as we see here below -
So, was there a mosque on the peninsula as well?
EDIT- there were at least 3 mosques on Chruoy Changva, but none close to the tower
I was thinking perhaps these were in fact 'watch towers' and there before mosques were built, as it would seem a bit odd to build a minaret, and then build a mosque that didn't look like a mosque as we see here below -
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I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this one on Koh Dak yet:
I know it's modern.
I know it's modern.
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Quite a beauty, but looks very Chinese/Vietnamese. Is there a link to where you found that pic?
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I took them myself about two years ago. It's just south-east of the beach at the north of the island.kinard wrote:Quite a beauty, but looks very Chinese/Vietnamese. Is there a link to where you found that pic?
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@11.70617 ... a=!3m1!1e3
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Thanks for sharing.
Mundane by comparison is the Kampong Som South Mole lighthouse
Mundane by comparison is the Kampong Som South Mole lighthouse
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