via Xinhua, 06 March 2023: Cambodian experts are restoring two ancient Naga balustrades on Angkor Wat’s causeway and they will be open for tourists in April.
A Cambodian authority has recently begun to restore two 50-meter-long sandstone Naga balustrades on the north side of Angkor Wat’s causeway in the famed Angkor Archaeological Park in northwest Cambodia, the authority said in a news release on Monday.
Undertaken by stone conservation experts from the Authority for the Protection and Safeguarding of Angkor and the Region of Angkor (APSARA), or the APSARA National Authority (ANA), the restoration work is expected to be completed before the Khmer New Year in mid-April and they will be open for tourists after that.
The two Naga balustrades are in the Angkor Wat’s causeway restoration project and they had been temporarily removed in the past, An Sopheap, an archaeologist and head of the working group in charge of the Angkor Wat Temple’s causeway restoration project, said in the news release.
Source: Cambodia restores Naga balustrades on north side of famed Angkor Wat’s causeway-Xinhua
