http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Bokor-Hill-Station/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Cambodia , South , Bokor Hill Station en-us Thu, 23 May 2013 14:06:09 +0000 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:06:09 +0000 Day Three KampotThe morning brought rain to our peaceful village but nevertheless we decided to rent a moto and visit Bokor National Park. Said to be Cambodias most alluring protected areas famed by its abandoned French Hill Station refreshing cool climate and lush rainforest home to the tiger leopard indian elephant asiatic black bear malayan sun bear pileated gibbon pigtailed macaque s http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Bokor-Hill-Station/blog-753075.html Wake at 0700 and crawl out of bed around 0730 for the 0800 collection. Scrambled eggs and baguette for breakfast.Minibus takes drives us the 7km to the ranger station just inside Bokor National Park. Out of the bus for a briefing on staying safe or it39ll ruin the park for generations. We climb in the back of a flatbed truck and a park ranger with an assault rifle climbs Chinese made Type5 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Bokor-Hill-Station/blog-620000.html Today were off for a trip up to Bokor National Park which is not as easy as it sounds. Its a long climb up Bokor Hill in the heat and we're all exhausted one guy takes his shirt off wrings it three times and a flood of sweat actually comes gushing out of it each time We all agree its the first time weve ever seen anything like it. As we approach the top we realise the worst is http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Bokor-Hill-Station/blog-491688.html KampotThe next day we left for Kampot which is a sleepy riverside village but is slowly coming alive with tourists. This bus journey was the worst so far we had the whole of the back seat and we were flying around two lorrybus tyres was in the walk way so when we wanted to get off we had to climb the chairs in front all good fun. These roads had the biggest pot holes and the roads are red du http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Bokor-Hill-Station/blog-286030.html From Kampot it is an easy day trip up to Bokor Hill Station. The road is a rocky uphill climb by 4WD. Bokor was built in 1925 by the French for a coastal mountain retreat and includes a hotel casino Catholic church and a small get away home for the King. Abandonded decades ago these buildings were also occupied by the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970's. As we wandered around the old hotel and churc http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Bokor-Hill-Station/blog-285033.html July 24 bus to Kampot CambodiaJuly 25 Bokor National Park CambodiaJuly 26 Taxi to Vietnam border Motorbike to Chao Doc Mekong DeltaWe hopped on a bus from Phnom Penh down to Kampot in the south of Cambodia. The little town of Kampot was pretty empty and there really wasn't much going on. People mainly come to visit on their way to see Bokor national park and the deserted French hil http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Bokor-Hill-Station/blog-231097.html Where do I start what a fantastic day out. We left our guesthouse in the back of a pick up truck at 8.30 to head up to Bokor Hill Station and National Park. Our group of 8 were fantastic including Malaysian girl with Dutch guy another dutch couple and an English girl. The road to the station is very steep and like a very bad Aussie Outback road that has been washed away. The driver was exc http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Bokor-Hill-Station/blog-229998.html Fri 12th OctoberToday we went to the Bokor National Park in Cambodia which is in the Kampot area. Essentially it is a disused hill station that was built firstly for the King he had a palace the size of a bungalow it was hard to get materials up there and then the French built a town further up with hotel casino etc to get away from the heat further down. It is now a bit derelict looking but w http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Bokor-Hill-Station/blog-211773.html Dzien 15. 14102007No i juz po wakacjach. Nie moglismy sie doczekac powrotu do PP i cieplego prysznica. W piatek wieczorem w Bhodi Villa byli juz Tim Mike i Jon ktorzy przypedalowali z PP i z ktorymi mielismy jechac na Bokor. Forrest stwierdzila ze sa nudni moze tak ale moze ja wole jak ktos mniej gada niz nasz wspollokator Arron ktory nie zamyka dzioba. W sobote rano ruszylismy na Bok http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Bokor-Hill-Station/blog-211161.html Started off today slightly weary I'd booked a day trip to Bokor National Park and the taxi that came to pick me up didn't represent a taxi in the slightest. It was just some heap rammed full of shady looking Cambodian guys. I was given front seat thus had to devise a self defence choreography in my head for when they decided to stop off in the middle of nowhere and brutally savage me. As it turne http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Bokor-Hill-Station/blog-197640.html Well at some point it was time to leave the civilisation of the capital and head to the south of the country to the province of Kampot and the town of the same name that is Kampot. This whole area used to be the cote d'azur of Cambodia where the colonial expats and creme de la creme of Phnom Penh would whizz down for the week end for a bit of beachingdrinkinggambling. They would also keep s http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Bokor-Hill-Station/blog-195635.html After leaving Sihanoukville we took a twohour bus to Kampot a small dusty town built along a river. Kampot is the launching base for trips to Bokor Hill Station an abandoned and battleravaged French colonial town up in the rainforested hills at 1000 meters. Two movies have been made up there City of Ghosts and some Korean horror film. As we climbed off the bus we were surrounded by the u http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Bokor-Hill-Station/blog-192590.html The World's bumpiest bus journey is undertaken from Bangkok to Siam Reap so bad that I am surprised the buses survive the journey at all. We saw one car on this five hour bone rattling test of endurance that had slid into a river off the muddy slippery roads. Reassuring. We stopped to ask if they needed help but a truck and some rope were on the way. So we left on our arse numbing way and arri http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Bokor-Hill-Station/blog-192127.html Day 110 Packing up and having another lazy morning on the beach broken only by a trip to the bar to order food and Chrissie getting a beautiful and bargain manicure and pedicure we hopped onto a moto to the bus station. A bus ride later made shorter by us both falling asleep we disembarked to a scrum of touts for hotels trying desperately to insert the cards for their hotels into our nostrils http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Bokor-Hill-Station/blog-189227.html We didn't have much beach weather in Sihanoukville so decided to head off on the 24th to Kampot. 2 hours later we arrived though there wasn't a huge amount of time left in the day so gorged ourselves on steaks in what we thought was a swanky restaurant though we definately didn't look the part The next morning we wanted to hire a dirtbike and make our way up the long rocky track to the Bo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Bokor-Hill-Station/blog-174662.html hello all hope everybody is fine and well.......we are both fine and still having the time of our lives here well since the last blog we decided to travel to kampot in the end we shared a taxi with a dutch couple called Lyke and Maarten and we have been with them ever since ha ha ha kampot is a small town near the coast very quiet and not many tourists which is great the main attraction is b http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Bokor-Hill-Station/blog-157865.html Well we booked our Taxi to Kampot thought we would travel in a bit of luxury and comfort and at a good price too for the 2 hour journey. Should have known it was too good to be true 11am and our taxi arrives it was like a beat up old nissan sunny or something similar. A Canadian couple were also heading to Kampot and it seems they were in our taxi too so we load all the big rucksacks in the bo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Bokor-Hill-Station/blog-128941.html La station de Bokor est un ancien lieu de villegiature de l'elite coloniale francaise qui fut definitivement abandonne lors de la prise du pouvoir des Khmers Rouge en 1970. Depuis des projets ont ete fait pour y reintroduire le tourisme mais rien n'a encore ete fait ce qui donne encore a l'endroit un lieu de ville fantome assez marrant avec notamment le casino et l'eglise encore debout meme s http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Cambodia/South/Bokor-Hill-Station/blog-128666.html