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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).
Phnom Bokor National Park occupies most of the highland plateaus and summits of the Dâmrei Mountains. The authorities are trying to curb illegal logging . [ citation needed ] The park has a great variety of plant species, including rare orchids , [ 8 ] an endemic pitcher plant only first described in 2009, [ 9 ] as well as some spectacular ...
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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 / n ɪ ˈ p ɛ n θ iː z ˌ b ɒ k ɒ ˈ r ɛ n s ɪ s / is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Cambodia.It is known from Mount Bokor (also Phnom Bokor or Bokor Hill) in the south of the country, and an as yet undetermined specimen suggests that it may also be present in other parts of the Dâmrei Mountains of Kampot Province.
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
The park includes a small mountain range and a number of hiking trails. The trails offer views of Phu Quoc and the Bokor Ranges on the south and west sides, and also views across islands of the Vietnamese marine reserve in Kiên Giang to the east side.