The White Lady Statue in Kep

The Sreysor statue or White Lady statue is one of the iconic of Kep province. The nude lady statue constructed in white concrete and rose to face the island in front of the beach side.

Sitting on a formed rock base with the left leg folded under the strait down right leg. Her left hand placed cross on the straight right leg and her right hand touch her right chin. Her face looks calm and show her passion of waiting, her both eyes deeply viewing the far away sites, as she waited for somebody to shore to the beach. The statue has beautiful look on her face and she kept her hairs naturally and combed by the fresh flow sea breeze. She also applied red lipstick to keep her looks event more beautiful when her man come back to her one day as promissed.

About the image above: visitors are taking photographs with the White Lady

About the image above: White Lady from the entrance

About the image above: White Lady from the beach

About the image above: White Lady from the back

About the image above: White Lady from front side view

The story of this statue was built is a lady waited her man to comeback from the fishing trip. This is a symbol of the passion and faith of unconditional love of every Cambodian women to they family and beloved husband.

Why the statue builds naked? The purpose of the statue built naked probably to attract the visitors or following the path of European technique statue builder, to see the talent and art part of the human body. Now the statue wrapped in various fabrics, but some peoples told me that every time it wrapped; the wrapper will last only for 2-3 days and the fabrics will be disappear. This is probably because of the wind blow continuously and the fabrics does nor tight up properly so that why the fabrics easily blown up by the wind. Or has some believe that the statue do not want to wear any fabric as the original to show the world of her pure heart and love, especially for the visitors to see this site.

The statue is easy to find while you in Kep. Visit Kep and say hello to her!