Angkor Wat Causeway’s second phase restoration 90 percent complete

via Khmer Times, 21 January 2023: Wow, five years flew by pretty quick! But the Angkor Wat Causeway is expected to be fully restored in a year’s time.

From 2016 to 2023, the APSARA National Authority, in collaboration with Sophia University, Japan, is implementing the second phase of a restoration project to restore the causeway in front of Angkor Wat to enhance the value and maintain the original form of this ancient structure to be strong again, the authority’s news release pointed out this afternoon.

Satoru MIWA, a representative of the Asia Sophia Center and head of the Angkor Wat Causeway restoration site, said that the second phase of the Angkor Wat Causeway restoration project is nearly 100 meters long, while the first phase of 100 meters long was completed.

He said that according to the actual situation, so far about 90 percent of restoration work has been achieved, in which the team may take at least another year to complete these works.

Source: Angkor Wat Causeway’s second phase restoration 90 percent complete – Khmer Times