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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 ...
Pages in category "National parks of Cambodia" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Phnom Kulen National Park; P.
Kep National Park (Khmer: ឧទ្យានជាតិកែប) is a national park in Cambodia's Kep Province that was established in 1993 and covers an area of 11 ...
Every year nearly 2.6 million [1] tourists visit Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Tourism in Cambodia is one of the most important sectors in the country's economy. In 2013, tourism arrivals increased by 17.5 percent year on year, with business travelers increasing 47 percent. [2]
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]