Royal Crusade of Independence Garden or simply Royal Garden is located opposite of Royal Residence in Siem Reap. It was here that King Sihanouk and General Lon Nol plotted Cambodia's independence from their French colonial overlords in the 1950s.The garden area is really huge and actually has lot of big trees and walking paths. The park is sometimes known as the “Bat Park” because of the hundred of bats which call the trees their home