Do Not Sleep Here !!

Do Not Sleep Here !!

Bokor Hill Station, Bokor Palace Hotel, Kambodscha Februar 2004
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Unable to cope with the Cambodian heat during the hottest months of the year, the French searched for
cool relief among the higher elevations of the Elephant Mountains. Thus the hill station of
BOKOR, 40km northwest of Kampot, was born, combining the requirements of a milder climate at
its elevation of just over 1000m, and magnificent views across the Gulf of Thailand. As in Kep, the
villas, King Sihanouk's former royal palace and casino were abandoned in the 1970s, but here
the buildings, while still derelict, remain somewhat more intact.

In 1979 the Vietnamese were holed up in the hotel shooting at the Khmer Rouge sheltering in the
church; more recently it was the scene of a different kind of shooting when Matt Dillon and crew
arrived to use the buildings as a backdrop for the feature film ''Under the Banyon Tree''.
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