Sunday, June 10, 2012

PHNOM BOKOR NATIONAL PARK

The most beautiful and most mystical natural park of Southeast Asia, it is, of course, Phnom Bokor. 140 thousand hectares of untouched mountain jungle, the biggest herd of wild elephants in Southeast Asia.  Park Phnom Bokor is located in Elephant mountains, being a continuation of the Cardamom Mountains (Kravan). Most park Phnom Bokor point - mountain Kamtjaj is high (Bokor, Phnom on Khmer dictionary means - the mountain) has a height of 1077 meters above sea level and is the point second highest point in Cambodia. Once at the entrance to the park, virgin forests begin. National park Phnom Bokor, beginning somewhere with 250 meters, it is densely covered by almost impassable primary jungle, from a height of approximately, 910 meters
all of park Bokor is covered by a rather equal plateau. Where there once lived a wild herd of elephants, there are now more than 100 individuals. Also in Phnom Bokor live tigers, foxes, the greatest set of snakes and others, certainly monkeys. On the top there is a Pagoda.

Read More in Cambodia Insight Website on Issue 7 Page 25.

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