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Preah Monivong National Park is well known for the abandoned Bokor Hill Station, a remote settlement build by the French colonialists in 1921. They also built a Catholic church nearby in 1928, a very rare sight in Cambodia. The park is named after King Sisowath Monivong who used to visit the area and eventually died here in 1941. Monivong ...
Bokor Hill was abandoned first by the French in late 1940s, during the First Indochina War, because of local insurrections guided by the Khmer Issarak. It was only in 1962, for the reopening of the "Cité du Bokor", that a casino was established in the new hotels near the lake, (Hotels Sangkum and Kiri).
Kampot (Khmer: កំពត, lit. ' The Kampot's Fish ') is a province in southwestern Cambodia.It borders the provinces of Koh Kong and Kampong Speu to the north, Takéo to the east, Kep and the country of Vietnam (Kiên Giang) or Kampuchea Krom (kramuon Sor) to the south, and Sihanoukville to the west.
Cambodia. Central Cardamom Mountains National Park; ... Preah Monivong National Park (aka Bokor National Park) Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary;
This is a list of protected areas of Cambodia. A total of 8 forms of protected areas are recognized under the Cambodian Protected Area Law of 2008. [1] These are: National Park; Wildlife sanctuary; Protected landscape; Multiple use area; Ramsar site; Biosphere reserve; Natural heritage site; Marine park
Phnom Sorsia, Phnom Chhnork, Kep, and Bokor National Park make up a popular day trip of the Kampot Province. [4] The forest-covered hill has several limestone caves. The White Elephant Cave is so named as there are many stalagmites in the limestone formations which resemble white elephants. [3]
Bokor Church being one of the few churches in Cambodia to have survived the Khmer Rouge massacres, it has become an important place of pilgrimage for the small Catholic community in Cambodia. The church also welcomes many pilgrims from Vietnam, who deposit various devotional objects there: statues of the Sacred Heart and of the Virgin Mary ...
Nepenthes bokorensis is known with certainty only from the Mount Bokor massif in Bokor National Park, Kampot Province, Cambodia, where it has an altitudinal distribution of 800–1080 m above sea level. [1] Three populations are known from the mountain. [5]