The French surveyor Etienne Aymonier visited the area nearly a century ago and apparently noticed neither of the 2 smaller structures Prasat Chan nor Ta Muean dharmasala wrote that the
''biggest ruins of the province of Souren [Surin] are two temples built at less than two miles distance to the west of the passage of Chup Mach [Chong Klang 4 km towards east], on rather flat terrain in the vicinity of the last crest of this plateau of this sudden fault which is called Dangrek mountains and which rises like a wall of three to four hundred metres north of the basin of the Great Lake of Cambodia. These temples, called Ta Mean Thom, 'the big one', and Ta Mean Tauch, 'the small one', stand four hundred metres apart, in a deserted, silent forest which covers several miles in area and the gigantic columns of which support a dark roof of green foliage, mostly belonging to the tree species which the Cambodians call 'sparrow foot', the most durable and lasting wood of all the hard woods of Cambodia.
Ta Mean Thom, the eastern most temple, at sixteen hundred metres only of the rocky crest, was announced, from the foot of the Dangrek [Dongrek], by a staircase which climbs the mountain and which today still serves as a path for bandits rather than for the very rare travellers who dare to penetrate these deserted areas. The locals claim that there are statues of elephants and of crocodiles
at the bottom of this staircase but this has not been verified. The staircase reaching the upper plateau, ends in a road which goes straight to the entrance steps of the temple. This monument faces south.''
The French surveyor Etienne Aymonier visited the area nearly a century ago and apparently noticed neither of the 2 smaller structures Prasat Chan nor Ta Muean dharmasala wrote that the ''biggest ruins of the province of Souren [Surin] are two temples built at less than two miles distance to the west of the passage of Chup Mach [Chong Klang 4 km towards east], on rather flat terrain in the vicinity of the last crest of this plateau of this sudden fault which is called Dangrek mountains and which rises like a wall of three to four hundred metres north of the basin of the Great Lake of Cambodia. These temples, called Ta Mean Thom, 'the big one', and Ta Mean Tauch, 'the small one', stand four hundred metres apart, in a deserted, silent forest which covers several miles in area and the gigantic columns of which support a dark roof of green foliage, mostly belonging to the tree species which the Cambodians call 'sparrow foot', the most durable and lasting wood of all the hard woods of Cambodia.Ta Mean Thom, the eastern most temple, at sixteen hundred metres only of the rocky crest, was announced, from the foot of the Dangrek [Dongrek], by a staircase which climbs the mountain and which today still serves as a path for bandits rather than for the very rare travellers who dare to penetrate these deserted areas. The locals claim that there are statues of elephants and of crocodilesat the bottom of this staircase but this has not been verified. The staircase reaching the upper plateau, ends in a road which goes straight to the entrance steps of the temple. This monument faces south.''
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