Asia - Bokor Cambodia

Interesting article (http://www.canada.com/vancouvercourier/news/travel/story.html?id=2e48a0c6-0c84-4183-b818-d1938f6ef289&p=1)on an apparently recent trip to Bokor. The article mentions the road is currently closed.

Bokor figures prominently in the 2002 movie City of Ghosts (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164003/). I see that Google Earth/Maps now has high resolution imagery of the immediate area (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bokor,+cambodia&sll=10.6248,104.023565&sspn=0.007719,0.020063&ie=UTF8&ll=10.62461,104.025443&spn=0.015438,0.031972&t=h&z=16).

Bokor is a fabulous place. I'd heard they were thinking of re-opening it to development. I wish they'd instead fix up the old villas and turn them into informal hotels. Some of those buildings are remarkable in their architectural style.

IIRC, the Sokimex/Sokha Hotel group has gotten a concession to develop the area at the top of Bokor -- I think I read that they were going to put in a golf course (shudder) among other things. They've been working on the access road for a while now, and it seems to be mostly closed (though occasionally open).