·        Official title - Preah Monivong

·        Area - 1581 square kilometers

·        The entrance fee - $5

·        Open almost all year round

·        Built by French in 1920s

·         Especially known for Nepenthis flower, wild elephant and tigers.    

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The first part regarding National Park Bokor in Cambodia you can read here.

Black Palace

The Cambodian Mational Park Bokor is unique because of its wild life and unique surrounding nature. The core of the place is the Black Palace. Once you climb the mountain of the park you will be able to see the former royal house of the King Norodom Sihanouk. He received this Palace as a present during the times of the French colonization of the Khmer empire. Formerly the place was a unique symbol of luxury and royalty, however the time has its own power that is even more devastating than it may seem from the first site, therefore now the Palace is truly black with abundant and destroyed hallways, that resemble now a prison rather than royal rooms. Only the elegantly and beautifully crafted mosaics on the wall remains and the pale crackled piles of the white marble floor remind the visitors about the royal atmosphere of the place.  

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Phnom Kulen when translated from Khmer language means “mountain lychee”. Currently it is a national park found at the distance of 50 km from the town of Siem Reap. It is considered to be one of the most unique and historically as well as religiously significant sites in Cambodia. This sacred place has enormous energy and is reputed to be among the pilgrims' the place of true and pure Buddhism. The power and pureness of this place is also seen in the jungle surrounding the site. 

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