page_title: Bokor Hill Station
section_title: Modern day
hierarchical_section_title: Bokor Hill Station / Modern day
caption_attribution_description: Sculpture of Buddhist Goddess Lok Yeay Mao - Bokor Hill Station - Near Kampot - Cambodia
context_page_description: Bokor Hill Station refers to a collection of French colonial buildings constructed as a temperate mountain luxury resort and retreat for colonial residents in the early 1920s atop Bokor Mountain in Preah Monivong National Park, about 37 km west of Kampot in southern Cambodia. Abandoned for long periods of time, modern infrastructure has made the location easily accessible as re-development is taking place. It was used as the location for the final showdown of the movie City of Ghosts and the 2004 film R-Point. To the north-east are the Povokvil Waterfalls.
context_section_description: Now abandoned, with the exception of the old post office, most of the buildings are still standing. The strategic importance of the location is underlined by the fact that the Cambodian authorities maintain a ranger station on the site. The only other historic building currently in use on the site is a small temple. There is also a waterfall which tends to be dry in high season and in full flow during rainy season. About 10 km before on the way for Bokor Hill Station there is the Black Palace (Damnak Sla Khmao). It was a little summer palace of King Sihanouk, abandoned some decades ago.
  The site is owned by the government but is now under 99–year lease to the Sokimex Group who are undertaking to relay the road and redevelop the site, repairing the old hotel and casino along with new buildings (hotels, hospital, restaurants, golf clubs etc.). The project was announced on Jan 19th 2008, construction of the road and resort was expected to take 30 months at a cost of US$21 million.  The Thansur Bokor Highland Resort hotel opened in 2012. The subsequent re-development is budgeted at US$1 billion over the next 15 years after which a further application may be submitted to create a larger Bokor city, the plans for which are unknown.
caption: Statue of Yeay Mao (Grandmother Mao)
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