Bokor Hill Station
On top of this quite significant mountain, surrounded in dense jungle, overhanging the southern coastline of Cambodia, sits Bokor Hill Station, a once-upon-a-time luxurious and expensive retreat location for French colonialists wanting to escape the hot temperatures of sea-level Cambodia. Sometime since the 1920s however, this whole place was abandoned and fell into disrepair, and crumbled, and grew bright red fungus on the walls. In the 1970s the whole ghost town was of great strategic importance during the Cambodian wars and was one of the last points of Khmer Rouge defence during the Vietnamese invasion in 1979, when the Vietnamese were shooting from the hotel below at the Khmer Rouge guys, who were hiding out in the old Catholic church about 500 metres away.
Bokor Palace Hotel:
the old ballroom:
Catholic church: 
The view from the hotel:
The old watertower:
The pictures you took through the broken windows remind me of some I took on our trip up north to the gorges in Kalbarri. Jagged glass frames the pictures which try to capture hundreds of birds perched atop the beams inside an old schoolhouse. I don't know where along the road I took them, but they're black and white, in a set with photos of JumpMusic Studio, a tiny place in an even tinier town, in the middle of nowhere, really. Do you remember that?
ReplyDeletereally nice photos. i wish i was there to see it with my owned eyes. welcome back to Thailand dude.
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