The story goes that in the 14th century, a Buddhist nun by the name of Penh went down to the Mekong River to get some water. There, She found a Koki tree that had become stuck on the riverbank. Investigating further, she discovered three statues of the Buddha inside the tree! These relics needed a sacred place so everyone could see them, and so Penh had the wood from the tree made into a temple on temple up on Penh’s Hill, and since phnom is Khmer for ‘hill’, The town that grew up around the temple is now called Phnom Penh.