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/ 5 March 2007

Faded grandeur in Cambodia’s mountains

In the ruined ballroom of the Bokor Palace Hotel it is easy to imagine, amid the shattered floor tiles and mouldy walls, the clink of champagne flutes and lively chatter of a night out in this tiny colonial hill station. A symbol of both the excesses of Cambodia’s golden age and the apocalypse that followed, the long abandoned hotel and casino is now only haunted by curious tourists.