
Bokor Hill Station in Preah Monivong National Park, Cambodia was worked during the 1920s by French homesteaders needing to get away from the warmth and mugginess of the capital Phnom Penh. The principle highlight of the retreat was the Bokor Palace Hotel and Casino. In light of the remote mountain area, fabricating the retreat was work escalated and about 900 individuals lost their lives amid development. Other than the Bokor Palace Hotel and Casino there was a mail station, shops, church and illustrious condos. At the season of its activity it was known for its extravagance and greatness and was one of the royal gems of France's South East Asian provinces.
The town was surrendered by the French in the main Indochina war of the 1940s. When that finished, the new Kingdom of Cambodia was made and Bokor Hill Station was utilized by the royals and honorability of the nation. In 1970 the Khmer Republic was made when the Khmer Rouge assumed control Cambodia and Bokor Hill Station was deserted. Such style made by their previous pioneer rulers had no place in their communist designs. The Khmer Rouge utilized Bokor Hill Station as a fortification amid the Vietnamese intrusion of 1979.

The Cambodian government intends to redevelop the site, returning it to its previous reason as a visitor resort. Presently, Bokor Hill Station gets countless and the administration have rented the site to Sokimex Group who have attempted fix to get to courses. New lodgings will be manufacture adjacent, restoring the zone to the reason expected by the French almost 100 years prior.
Coming up next is a record of an excursion to Bokor Hill Station by an American couple, Steve and Stef.
The day after we touched base in Kampot, we saw instances of the Khmer Rouge frenzy when we visited Bokor Hill Station close Kampot. In it's prime, there was an inn, clubhouse and church over Bokor Hill, that blossomed with the extravagance of the rich. Be that as it may, when the Khmer Rouge assumed control, they totally wrecked the place, and it's consistent with say the place is an apparition town. Strolling through the old lodging you can nearly detect the spirits. The Khmer Rouge took everything from it, including the wiring inside the dividers. You can see where mortar shells have blown through windows and blown separated stairwells. As the fog attracted as we were there, it gave a genuine feeling of the spooky trouble of the place; not a place you'd need to be during the evening. Be that as it may, it is a decent place to visit to see the impacts of the Khmer Rouge years, without seeing the torment that occurred.
Area: Kampot, Cambodia
Class: Ghost Town
Relinquished: 1979
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