The West Mebon east wall is a small island temple built under the rule of Udayadityavarman II and is in a very poor condition, located on an island in the middle of the West Baray. The West Baray was an enormous reservoir 8km long and 2km wide, which experts claim would have taken 6,000 men over three years to complete. It still holds water today and has become a popular picnic and swimming spot. Only the eastern towers of the West Mebon remain relatively intact and they are carved with lively animals, the first Angkorian carvings of animals in natural, non-mythological scenes. It you walk along the shoreline of the island and look back you will see heaps of stones from the collapsed areas. The West Mebon is perhaps most notable for the discovery in 1936 of a large 6m long bronze statue of a reclining Vishnu, the statue now resides in the National Museum, Phnom Penh.