Prasat Top (Jayendranagari)

In the forest between Ta Prohm and Ta Nei, south-west of Ta Keo. It no longer shows on Google Maps, so use the coordinates on this page. It is inside the Angkor park, so you need an Angkor pass.

Go early: in the morning the sun comes through the trees in shafts.

A single small sandstone tower in the forest about 600 metres south-west of Ta Keo. It is thought to be the last standing piece of Jayendranagari, the royal city of King Jayavarman V, who reigned from 968 to 1001 and began Ta Keo as his state temple in 975.

Its style matches the four corner towers on the summit of Ta Keo, and unusually it has a single door, opening to the south. It may have marked a corner of the city. Nothing else of Jayendranagari has been found standing, and how far the city reached is unknown.

Maps and guides often call it West Prasat Top. That name belongs to a different and much later temple inside Angkor Thom, Monument 486. Prasat Top is a modern name, shared by several small towers at Angkor.