Centre-ville, Daun Penh statue

The statue of Daun Penh next to the Wat Phnom, Phnom Penh. The legend said a wealthy widow lady whom the local affectionately referred her as Grandma (or Madam) Daun Penh who was settled on a high land at the west river bank of Sap River had uncovered four bronze and one stone Buddha statues inside a hole of a floating big koki tree down from upstream which hit her compound during high flooding season; in respect of the her belief, she thought it was a good omen and has decided Lord Buddha should be placed over the ordinary, hence, she ordered her people to pile up earth to create a man-made hill and used the original Koki tree trunk to construct a small temple on top to house the discovered Buddha statues and that was how the original shrine was constructed, the Wat Phnom.