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Bokor
National
Park Cambodia Trekking
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The national park
is in Kampot, there is tree
and bamboo jungle,
great waterfalls and some scenery out of a horror
movie.
In the
wilds of southern Cambodia it's a real
highlight, a
nature perspective in a totally different
direction as
Angkor Wat.
Bokor Cambodia should be
on any travel plan when visiting the country,
its only a few hour with the bus from Phnom Penh
over a good road to Kampot. Bokor national park
tours are available every day, just talk with
the hotel they arrange everything.
One of the
best tours in Cambodia,
a bit to the west is
Sihanoukville and from there the bus is waiting
to Koh Kong with more great nature destinations
that's travel with a different twist,
no ruins, no temples, just waterfalls,
wilderness, rivers and ideal for dirt biking,
Cambodia trekking and dirt bike tours can be
done up to the Bokor Hill Station and around.
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A young man is
our tour guide for the trek at the Bokor National Park
in Kampot,
the idea is to trek up the mountain to the hill
station.The guide's connection to nature is not
really shared by this
boatful of townies, he's constantly grabbing
waxy leaves, pointing out how this and that one can cure
hemorrhoids and solve other health problems. What do we eat for such problems at home?
Tablets, we tell him. At the end of of our
trekking group a soldier follows us with the
"Kalashnikov" wild animals are still around and
the civil war is not so many years ago.
Currently (2012) the whole road from Kampot
up and
down Bokor mountain is under construction to
make a about 8 meters wide asphalt road which is
a difficult undertaking considering the terrain,
before it was only a
dirt road. The basic road
into the park is
already finished and also the asphalt cover is
done for around 50% of the distance (2011), but the
trekking group climb down from the back of the truck and
off we go into the quiet forest, we call it
Cambodia trekking, the truck will move on
without us and wait a couple of kilometers
further up at the meeting point we will reach in
about 2 hours. The trek is a constant climbing
and the trail is over slippery earth, limestone
boulders, through the bamboo jungle and plenty
of other lush tropical jungle. The thickets are very dense
from time to time which makes
the walk difficult on top of it there are
constantly sharp broken bamboo pieces popping
out from the earth i guess everyone can imaging
what happen when losing balance and fall into
this bamboo spears, means good
shoes are mandatory and some gloves will avoid
cuts.
Cambodia Travel
Bokor National Park
Waterfall
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Beside of
hiking and trekking there is
"Dirt Bike Cambodia",
considering the bad condition of
the roads or often no road at
all, but a small trail dirt bike
tours make sense,
read more.
Misty view
of the coast,
looking down from the Bokor plateau to the
southern coast is a breathtaking experience. The
best viewpoint is behind the blackened walls of the Bokor
Palace Hotel and Casino.
Once the
playground of French colonialists, later
occupied by Vietnamese soldiers, the walls of
this grand structure are now a mosaic bullet holes and graffiti.
It
is possible to book accommodations at the Bokor
hill station at the Ranger HQ.
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