The three of us agreed to go to Ta Eng Guesthouse. As soon as we got there the owner invited us to have lunch with his family as it was the eve of the Lunar New Year (Chinese New Year) : The year of the Rat. The owner told us that Bokor Hill (the reason why we got to Kampot) had been closed for over a month and it just opened for the four days of Chinese New Year…so we got really lucky on that one. After a 3-hour nap we set off to the riverside, had a relaxing drink and set off to a new year’s eve party which he had heard about on the way to our relaxing drink. We ended up walking for around one and a half hours to get to the place ….got there, exhausted!
The following day we managed to find two motorbikes for rent… with which we set off straight away to Bokor Hill. It took us around two hours to go up the hill, the road wasn’t that great but was not that bad. For your info Bokor Hill, apart from being a fascinating place, is also home to an old hotel, Bokor Palace, which was used for the shooting of the film The Shining by the oh so admired Stanley Kubrick. The hotel had a ghostly feeling and we roamed around the condemned place on tip toes and whispering. Yakof and Janet decided to head back to town as the sun would soon be setting down while Sijs went to check out the waterfall which he never really got to anyway.
Off to Rabbit Island… Koh Tun Sei
At the time of writing we do not have pictures of Bokor Hill as we are still waiting for Sijs to send us the photos.
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