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Black Palace
As you drive up from Kampot, the first buildings you come to atop Phnom Bokor are Sihanouk's villa complex, known as the Black Palace. Inside the blotchy, windowless villas, you can still find rooms with elegant marble floors and bathrooms partly tiled in mid-century shades of pink and brown.
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Bokor Hill Station
The eerie ruins of the old French hill station of Bokor, high atop Phnom Bokor (1080m), are known for their cool - even chilly - mountain climate and dramatic vistas of the coastal plain, one vertical kilometre below.
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Bokor National Park
Bokor's moist evergreen forests - with dry dipterocarp and mixed deciduous forests in the north - shelter a wide variety of rare and threatened animals, including the Indian elephant, leopard, Asiatic black bear, Malayan sun bear, pileated gibbon, pig-tailed macaque, slow loris, red muntjac deer, lesser mouse deer, pangolin , yellow-throated martin, small Asian mongoose and various species of civet, porcupine, squirrel and bat.
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Bokor Palace
The highlight of a visit to the hills station is the shell of the Bokor Palace , which has been stripped of everything of value. You can explore all four levels and the rooftop terrace, from which there's a magnificent view over dense jungles that stretch almost to the sea.
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Catholic church
The old Catholic church at Bokor Hill Station looks like the priest locked it up only yesterday. Inside, bits of glass still cling to the corners of the windows and the altar remains intact; drawings of what appear to be Khmer Rouge fighters adorn the walls. Near the kitchen, one window holds the rusty outline of a cross. A bit up the hill, past the rusted green base of some Khmer Rouge military hardware, a sheer drop overlooks virgin rainforest.
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Popokvil Falls
This two-tiered waterfall is a fine place to bathe on a sunny day. The upper falls, the best place to swim, are 14m high. The lower falls, 18m high, can be reached by a path and a wooden stairway. The name translates as 'Swirling Clouds' and much of the time mists do indeed whorl just above the falls.
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Wat Sampeau Moi Roi
About 250m northwest of the church, a road leads through a three-towered gate to lichen-caked Wat Sampeau Moi Roi, known as Five Boats Wat because some say the five oddly-sculpted rocks nearby resemble boats (although what they were smoking at the time is up for debate). Built in 1924, it affords tremendous views over the jungle to the coastline below, including Vietnam's Phu Quoc Island. Four cement supports that once anchored a Khmer Rouge radar station still stand just outside.
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