Phnom Bourkor

 I think we all have a beautiful place in our mind. I have a wonderful place that made me happy a lot of time, year ago. But sometime I think that I am the only person who likes this place and I’m asking myself if this place will be beautiful as I thought when I will back to visit it again. Perhaps I made it beautiful in my mind. This place is meaningful to me because it is part of the country I loved, is part of the country where was born and is part of my childhood. This place is in the South-west of the country, it is the highest mountain in Kampot province. 

It is Named Monivong Bokor National park, nowadays people called it Thansuor Bokor or Phnom Bokor. It is about twelve kilometers west of Kampot province town. Phnom Bokor was first discovered by a group of foreigners in twentieth century and later organized by Frenchman named Toulouse, during the reign of king Sisowath. During colonial time, Phnom Bokor was a place of leisure for the French colonists looking for an alternative to the coastal plain. During then-Prince Norodom Sihanouk’s Sangkum Reaser Niyum regime, many public buildings were built here, and Phnom Bokor became a small town, Borie Bokor. 

Today, most of those buildings are dilapidated and no longer for use. For the ride, for the scenery, for the cool mountain air, for the adventure, for relaxation. All good reasons to travel the the top of Bokor Mountain. 32 kilometers and 1,101 meters up from road 3 near Kampot, is the Bokor Mountain Hill Station, in Bokor National Park. Originally a small resort town, it is now an abandoned ghost town and National Park. Except for the many tourist and Park personnel, and a few hundred construction workers that is. Most famous for the abandoned Casino at the top of the mountain, there is also a church, buildings for the former king. When you arrived the Phnom Bokor, you would have a wonderful experience when visit the beauty of nature here with a number of animals and plants such as elephants, tigers, foxes and monkeys, so on. Walking at the top of the Phnom Bokor is an old temple that you can visit its interior and observe a spectacular view from the top of this hill.

In conclusion, I really enjoy this place too much. Although I have gone this 3 or 4 time, I don’t feel bored even I want to go more than before. I wanna say I love this place. I have feeling pleasure where this place in my province.