{"id":4101,"date":"2023-01-15T04:47:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T09:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2023-01-12T23:34:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T04:34:43","slug":"return-to-monkey-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2023\/return-to-monkey-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to Monkey Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last month during our team visit to Prey Veng<\/a> we spent a morning at Toul Baray Andet just outside of Prey Veng town. The last time we visited was in 2021 with that year’s YAMEN class<\/a>. ‘Toul’ is a river delta word, it means ‘an elevated patch of land that is an island in the rainy season and a hill in the dry season’. Baray Andet is home to a pagoda today and an archeological site dating back to Funan<\/a>, the earliest Khmer Kingdom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It also home to a large troop of monkeys and, so, foreigners often call the site ‘Monkey Island’.<\/p>\n\n\n

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If only human kids came with built-in leashes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Monkeys being Monkeys.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Monkeys being Monkeys.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Baray Andet also has two small reservoirs that are stocked with fish and beautiful water lilies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aside from a few signs, there’s not really anything that makes it evident that Baray Andet is an archeological site. There are no active excavations or ancient structures. I read that they recovered a statue and some other artifacts from here several years ago. So the reason to visit Baray Andet isn’t for it’s historical significance – though that’s an aspect that certainly could be developed – but more for the cool breeze coming in off the rice fields, the abundant nature surrounding it, the old growth trees towering over it, and – of course – the monkeys.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Shepher, from India, standing at the edge of Baray Andet with the seasonal lake behind him. Soon this lake will recede and be transformed into rice paddies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The same area in March 2020, demonstrating how the seasonal lake will be transformed after a few months of dry season.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month during our team visit to Prey Veng we spent a morning at Toul Baray Andet just outside of Prey Veng town. The last time we visited was in 2021 with that year’s YAMEN class. ‘Toul’ is a river delta word, it means ‘an elevated patch of land that is an island in the… <\/p>\n

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