Near the foot of the mountain is the Kirirom Hillside Resort, where
offer visitors a wide variety of leisure activities and facilities such
as hotel, restaurants, zoo, waterfall, family shopping mart, recreations
and children playground, beautiful Dino park, fishing, canoeing, horse
riding, biking and rope sliding. Visitors can also play sports such as
tennis and basketball at the resort. In addition, stream, sauna, spa,
swimming pool and fitness center are available beside conference and
banquet facilities.
Our dining facilities have been prepared to
offer guests with a wide selection of international cuisine Western,
Chinese, Thai and traditional Khmer. Good meal is a celebration of life
and at Kirirom Hillside Resort restaurants, you will embark on a
culinary journey that will take you to new gustatory heights.
Located
at Phnom Sruoch district in the province of Kampong Speu, Kirirom
National Park is established on a seven hundred meters hill covering an
area of over thirty five thousand hectares in the Elephant Mountains.
The name 'Kirirom' meaning Mountain of Joy was given to it by the King
of Cambodia. Kirirom National Park, a high altitude plateau, is known
for its unique high elevation pine forest, which forms the headwaters
for numerous streams feeding Kampong Speu Town. This park is part of the
'Southwest Cluster Protected Areas' which include Phnom Bokor, Preah
Sihanouk and Kep National Parks.
Attractions at this hill
station of Kirirom are its spectacular scenery and its astonishing
waterfalls. This park is also the home to many endangered species of
animals such as pleated gibbon, sun bear and tiger . You can take a ride
in the traditional ox-cart ride or trek along the walking trails among
the pine trees. Since this natural resort is located one hundred and
twenty kilometers to the west of Phnom Penh, visitors can hire taxis to
get here. Traveling along National Road No. 4 will also get you here.
The
Kirirom National Park, whose official name is Preah Suramarith Kossmak,
is about 80,000 acres of forested land on a rare plateau in
southwestern Cambodia. The elevation is about 2,200 feet, high enough to
support a large pine forest quite distinct from most of the country's
tropical jungle. Our last stop in the park was a newly renovated
visitor's center which was small but quite impressive. The visitor's
center has some really attractive displays although there are too many
for such a small space. Still it was refreshing to see such high
standards applied to the center.
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