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Wat Ounalom Monastery

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Step­ping into Wat Ounalom Monastery felt like hit­ting the pause but­ton on Ph­nom Pen­h's fre­net­ic pace. Com­pared to oth­er, more well-trod­den tem­ples, Ounalom was a sanc­tu­ary of tran­quil­i­ty, a hid­den gem for qui­et con­tem­pla­tion. In­tri­cate carv­ings, burst­ing with vivid col­ors, adorned the struc­tures, each one a silent tes­ta­ment to his­to­ry. A pal­pa­ble

sense of seren­i­ty per­me­at­ed the open court­yard, draw­ing vis­i­tors to­geth­er in a col­lec­tive mo­ment of re­flec­tion. But the most en­dur­ing feel­ing was the deep sense of peace that seemed to wash over us. It stayed with us long af­ter we left, a cher­ished re­minder of the still­ness dis­cov­ered with­in those time­worn walls.

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