At the back of Wat Phou

Date: Apr 28, 2009

At the back of Wat Phou

khonthakek · Guru

i don't like the color of roof, it should has done other color. but not light blue

Date: Apr 28, 2009

ugly

Date: Apr 28, 2009

looks mystyerious

paris_vientiane · Guru

temporary? to protect a weak part of the temple?

Date: Apr 29, 2009

khonthakek wrote:

i don't like the color of roof, it should has done other color. but not light blue

I agree with you. That roof should be taken down. It doesn't math with the rest of antique stucture of Wat Phou.

Date: Apr 29, 2009

Anonymous wrote:

khonthakek wrote:

i don't like the color of roof, it should has done other color. but not light blue

I agree with you. That roof should be taken down. It doesn't math with the rest of antique stucture of Wat Phou.

OOPS...typo " match" instead of math

Date: Apr 29, 2009

Anonymous wrote:

khonthakek wrote:

i don't like the color of roof, it should has done other color. but not light blue

I agree with you. That roof should be taken down. It doesn't math with the rest of antique stucture of Wat Phou.

The French guy (Paris-Vientiane) is correct. I agree with his assessment of the roof. It is there to protect the crumbling structure. Imagine if rain fill up the place. The wall will surely collapse.

Date: Apr 29, 2009

Anonymous wrote:

Have you eve seen Wat Phu from this view ?

Wow!!! thank you for showing this photo. Where is it ?

Date: Apr 30, 2009

I think we they sould not put the roof on it
it look untraditional

Date: Apr 30, 2009

Tolex wrote:

I think we they sould not put the roof on it
it look untraditional

Then how would you protect the structure from collapsing?

Do you not see the area where the roof was installed? Doesn't it look like it is crumbling? Can you not see if the roof is not there what will happend when rain season start? The water would fille up and push the thin brick wall out as a result the structure will fall apart.

The roof is not a permanent thing. I suspect it is there temporary while they are fixing the fall.

Date: Apr 30, 2009

Are those mango trees behind the wat? Yak ow ma jump jail dae nor.

Thatluang · Veteran Member

Anonymous wrote:

Are those mango trees behind the wat? Yak ow ma jump jail dae nor.

I think those are mak muang hi ma phan tree...behind the temple. hahahahaha

tinko · Guru

roof not enough to cover the entire structure.

it will only take one wall to collapse for the whole thing to come down.
maybe put more roof to slow erosion from rain and the elements, yes?

illustration below *

onthafloor · Senior Member

wat used to go on around wat phou? like wat is the history about it? lemme get some knowledge about it if anyone knows!