This day I arranged to go on a guided tour to the Bokor National Park Hill Station. The hill station is a vestige of the French Colonial era. The colonists used it as a place to relax and escape from the heat of the low lying regions. It sported a casino, administrative centre and police station. Now the Cambodian government has sold/leased land to the same Vietnamese guy who runs the Angkor concession. He is in the process of building a monstrosity of a casino... in the national park grounds. In the name of misguided development I hope it is a failure.
I met some great people who I spent the entire day with. A young Canadian couple, an elderly Australian gent and an Englishman. They were a great hoot and good company.
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