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Bokor National Park, Cambodia.

By Vikasacharya

Established by the French as a hill station in 1925, Bokor has since been abandoned twice, during World War II and the Khmer Rouge period. The area including Bokor 'mountain' was established as a national park in 1993 with its 1,500 square kilometers spanning four Cambodian provinces. Despite substantial illegal logging, it's still home to gibbons, hornbills, civets and sunbears. Recent development of a new casino, hotel and hangar-like convention centre may have affected the ghostly ambiance of the hill station, but included building a wonderful curving road to the top of the hill, making Bokor much easier to access. The most beautiful and most mystical natural park of Southeast Asia, 140 thousand hectare of untouched mountain jungle, the biggest herd of wild elephants in Southeast Asia. Park Phnom Bokor is located in Elephant mountains being continuation Cardamon mountains (Kravan). Most park Phnom Bokor point - mountain Kamtjaj is high (Bokor, Phnom on khmer dictionary means - the mountain) has height of 1077 metres above sea level and is the point second for height point in Cambodia. At once at entrance to park virgin forests begin.


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