Why this ride
curated scenic road. Gulf views, rainforest, historic hill station. 17 km from Kampot to Kampot, about 19 min of riding. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Bokor Mountain Road
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 17 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 19 min
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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Scenic road chapters
Bokor Mountain Road
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 14 km this is Bokor Mountain Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 14 km
- Named road
- Bokor Mountain Road
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Kampot
Kampot is a lazy river town on the southern coast of Cambodia, and it wears its faded French colonial architecture with a sort of gentle indifference. Old shophouses with peeling yellow paint and wooden shutters line the riverfront, and the wide Preaek Tuek Chhu river flows slowly past, with fishing boats heading out to sea in the evening. Across the river, the bulk of Bokor Mountain rises over the town, often wrapped in cloud. It is a place where people come for a few days and stay for weeks.
Read the complete Kampot write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Bokor Mountain Road point 1 sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Bokor Mountain Road point 2.
2. Near Kampot
At the foot of Bokor, west of Kampot, the land is flat and green, and then suddenly it isn't. The mountain rises abruptly from the coastal plain, a long ridge of sandstone covered in dense forest, and the road up begins with almost no warning, leaving the rice paddies and palm trees behind and starting to climb. Here is the entrance to Preah Monivong Bokor National Park, and the beginning of one of the best mountain roads in Cambodia.
Read the complete Near Kampot write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Bokor Mountain Road point 2 comes up 9 km in. Next is Bokor Mountain Road point 3.
3. Bokor Mountain Road point 3
On top of Bokor the forest opens onto a wide, windswept plateau of scrub, rock and boggy grassland, and out of the mist appear the ghosts of a French hill station. The old Bokor Palace Hotel, opened in the 1920s, stands empty and blackened, its grand rooms open to the wind, and nearby a small Catholic church, also abandoned, sits on a rocky outcrop looking out over the sea. In the fog, which comes in fast and often, these buildings look like the set of a horror film, and indeed they have been used as one.
Read the complete Bokor Mountain Road point 3 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
17 km in you reach Bokor Mountain Road point 3.