Cambodia's Ghost Town In Bokor National Park

[@cryptoisthewaytogo]

Good day Richy, thank you for another video.. keep it up, I enjoy watching these videos and seeing how people live all around the world.. I would love to travel one day like you but I’m a single dad and still have one kid left in school that I need to care for

[@ParkinsonRaw]

Thanks mate, I’ve been there mate. I have two children and four grandchildren. The future though is yours to plan, depends where your dreams lye mate. Plan ahead if you want to travel, my channel is to inspire and show you what you can do, maybes not tomorrow but in the future👍🏻

[@YomijnMe]

very good location for festivall - take it in a list Richy)

[@YomijnMe]

TechNeut in a Cambodia's

[@ParkinsonRaw]

🤣it does mate.

[@ParkinsonRaw]

@@YomijnMe it would be wild.

[@notinservice3724]

great show, this area sure looks a lot like parts of Cuba, what with the abandoned hotels and constuction of others being walked away from, plus high prices in US $ with little value, but I really enjoy your walk throughs

[@ParkinsonRaw]

Thanks mate, I really enjoy exploring stuff but some of this was like a horror movie

[@gregorythomasfitness]

Hi Richy. Glad you found something that you really liked in the Country. Yes, there are plenty of snakes, so I am glad you got through ok 👍 Those street markets looked like a mobile 7-11 but I don't get how they all sell the same stuff, right next to each other, and seemingly no customers?

[@ParkinsonRaw]

I did mate thank you, Kampot was great and also Kep is a beautiful place too. Everywhere has good and bad but the south has being the highlight. Three massively disappointing things that sadly will draw people away from Cambodia. 1/ The rubbish, a bin can be 10 metres away yet it seems a habit that they throw it over the shoulder rather than do the right thing. 2/ Burning Plastic is huge in the rural areas and in the cities to be honest, they are slowly killing themselves and all around them. 3/ Dual pricing, there are no prices on no street food whatsoever. i went to eat somewhere last night and managed to get a menu in Cambodian for the 1st time. the meal i got was 3000r i translated it. they charged me 3 times that price and were not happy that i got the menu. These are the things that will definitely stop people returning and recommending the country. They need to take note, if not Cambodia will never reach their potential. I will come back because i have friends here but many many people will not unfortunately.

[@gregorythomasfitness]

@@ParkinsonRaw that's such a shame to hear, hey. I can see that in your videos too, and probably why they don't have such a roaring tourism and all those abandoned buildings? I get that a local can usually get things for less, and I know in the Philippines I always had people that I worked with there telling me to come back and visit and they would book my holiday to get local prices. The burning of the plastic and rubbish is so dissapointing. I am really glad to see your unbiased and raw vlogs to know this. Thanks for taking the time and the time to reply mate! So appreciated. Onwards and upwards!

[@ParkinsonRaw]

Thanks Greg, let’s hope they move on sooner rather than later mate.

[@grahammurray7426]

Shame about the clouds,mate stunning on a clear day

[@ParkinsonRaw]

It is Graham but high season is approaching and then I’ll be hoping for rain haha

[@JuneOyston]

Arrived in Egypt late last night and the wfi is hitty miss, you need to use your Parkinson charm with the ladies especially those at the beginning lol. Loving the statues and amazing views one of these days your going to get chased by a security guard lol and the encounter with the monkeys so funny and also yep I thought the same as you about the scrap again made me laugh 😊brilliant vlog 😊

[@ParkinsonRaw]

Haha thank you June, I keep away from the ladies. I don’t need the headache that comes with it. They can be a nightmare🤣😊

[@ParkinsonRaw]

You’ll have to let me know how Egypt goes I’ve never been there, hope you have a great time😎

[@JuneOyston]

@@ParkinsonRaw lol Gary says that about me 🙈

[@JuneOyston]

@@ParkinsonRaw thankyou and I will do 😊

[@grahammurray7426]

You missed armistice day in kanchanaburi today mate. A very special and sombre event

[@ParkinsonRaw]

One of my friends was there, Jay Rossi. I’m disappointed I missed it.

[@YomijnMe]

Hi Richy Mate

[@ParkinsonRaw]

Hiya mate🇳🇱🙏🏻

[@lifewme1205]

That place was like a scene out of hostel movie

[@ParkinsonRaw]

It was Craig, I think ive got bottle but walking through there I was bricking it mate🤣

[@ParkinsonRaw]

All in a days vlog, I need to stop thinking like that ha. The day started tame and just went mental the more it went on. Hence the 50 odd mins

[@lifewme1205]

I was scared for you 😂😂😂 thought I’d be next seeing you in the latest saw movie

[@ParkinsonRaw]

@@lifewme1205 haha it was a crazy place, being talking to some locals and apparently it’s a big sex trafficking point and very very dangerous with a camera oops

[@vgshwk]

My guess would be that big abandoned complex would be either an abandoned military complex or school.

[@ParkinsonRaw]

Yes they could of being mate

[@cryptoisthewaytogo]

It’s a ghost town when it comes to anyone staying at the hotels around there

[@ParkinsonRaw]

I’ve got big balls and I can handle myself very well. I’m not going to lie, that was extremely daunting. It was the creepiest place you can ever imagine mate

[@rogerstokes2646]

The golden statue's at the beginning, if they have wings, usually angels of some kind and the black dildo was sitting on a shiva lingam stone, which is predominantly hindu culture and a fertility symbol, the Cambodian religion adopted a mixed relationship with hindu, Buddhist and other cultures, the shiva lingam usual face north east.

[@ParkinsonRaw]

Yeah I’ve seen the cocks all over Thailand, I thought it had something to do with Buddhism. Thanks mate👍🏻

[@simonnz7193]

That grim place with the buses outside would probably be for the hotel workers Sad to see all the abandoned buildings, just cheep Chinese rubbish, looks all the same and not built to last. Parts of Vietnam the same shit, like they dont know how to do authenticity. Interesting vlog mate, you are definitely getting your exercise.

[@ParkinsonRaw]

Thanks Simon, apparently a lot of these places where abandoned when the Khmer Rouge drove everyone out

[@simonnz7193]

Sorry I meant thoes rows of empty houses with the for rent signs,@@ParkinsonRaw They look like cheep colonial knock offs not 45 years old.

[@cryptoisthewaytogo]

28:00 I don’t think that place has been cleaned since it was built

[@ParkinsonRaw]

It was like the shining mate, I’ve got big balls and I second guessed to walk through there🤣

[@cryptoisthewaytogo]

@@ParkinsonRaw 😳

[@AndrewpeterkilleyAndrewKilley]

The Chinese Evergrande Group is now virtually bankrupt, so there hundreds if not thousands of these abandoned developments all over SE Asia, it's shocking and sad. Hardly any of the locals benefited from the developments, which was a shame.

[@ParkinsonRaw]

It is mate, the government should do something about it, to help the locals.

[@grahammurray7426]

Yes mate the French had a casino before the chinese

[@ParkinsonRaw]

Yeah Graham this wasn’t the Chinese, these are there from the 70’s when the Khmer Rouge drove everyone out. I’ll be looking more into this near Kep apparently there’s a lot of villas abandoned from then that nobody owns and nobody can by. I will be investigating

[@grahammurray7426]

​@@ParkinsonRawloads they are everywhere. Totaly abandoned

[@ParkinsonRaw]

@@grahammurray7426 shame mate, no one can buy and they stay derelict. I’ll hopefully be able to cover more of this in Kep from what I’ve been told. This type of thing needs highlighting.

[@grahammurray7426]

​@@ParkinsonRawput an offer in ?

[@ParkinsonRaw]

@@grahammurray7426 haha you wanna go shares Graham, be cheap mate haha. Did you see the Bokor Palace $320 a night. You couldn’t pay me £1000 a night to stay there, creepy is an understatement

[@exoticvicroy3694]

reminds me of a horror film,hostel!😂

[@ParkinsonRaw]

Haha it does mate, scary place🤣

[@cryptoisthewaytogo]

I would rather buy a travel tent and bathe in the ocean than stay at some of them hotels lol

[@ParkinsonRaw]

Haha definitely mate.

[@cryptoisthewaytogo]

Sell a couple hotel buses and hire a cleaning crew

[@ParkinsonRaw]

Haha weird there mate, i wouldn’t live in them hills after seeing that guesthouse thing. It was like watching the shining

[@globaltreats]

easy to get stuck in kampot!

[@ParkinsonRaw]

It is a lovely relaxing city.

[@globaltreats]

@@ParkinsonRaw i did a lot of relaxing in the bars :)

[@ParkinsonRaw]

@@globaltreats that’s easy to do mate, 50c a drink is too tempting.

[@thekeeler846]

Chinese construction practices are atrocious. I'm sure you've all heard "Tofu Dreg" before... these buildings will be falling apart as soon as the last contractors vehicles leave the site.

[@ParkinsonRaw]

Yeah I’ve seen loads of them mate, buildings made like dust.

[@thekeeler846]

@@ParkinsonRaw, it's a shame, Richy... looking to a larger more developed country for partnership and then get taken advantage of!? ... don't want to be entirely cynical, but unfortunately that's how development seems to happen for/by us hominids. Thankfully people like you refresh our spirit and hope.

[@ParkinsonRaw]

@@thekeeler846 thanks mate, yeah unfortunately the world is run around cash now. It’s up to us to try our best and dodge it. Head for the hills ha

[@TerryTibbs-k4p]

Fk me mate,I've had nightmares with places like that in 😂

[@ParkinsonRaw]

🤣crazy place mate, scary.

[@rogerstokes2646]

Better burning the crap than throw it in the river or ocean probably the lack of refuse collection services leave limited options?

[@ParkinsonRaw]

Burning it in populated areas is a slow killer mate causing tuberculosis etc. There is no good way but burning is definitely the worst, its everywhere

[@rogerstokes2646]

@@ParkinsonRaw not sure Tuberculosis can spread that way but I hear what you're saying

[@ParkinsonRaw]

@rogermanifold8615 tuberculosis is a lung infection from infected air like plastic burning if I’m not wrong mate.

[@ParkinsonRaw]

People breathing in the likes of plastic gain tuberculosis then the start coughing which infects everybody around them. That’s why it’s extremely hazardous, in my experience. I could be wrong but that’s what I’ve been taught being a builder all my life. Burning plastic is a slow killer

[@ParkinsonRaw]

Uk Regulations I got a lot of boring lectures on this but I’d be extremely surprised if I’m wrong bud. Every street I walk down here they put a match to everything. I wouldn’t care the bin men seem regular. Think there just fire bugs lol

[@cabovermike]

That was a truly awfull video richy, you won't be getting any job offers from the cambodian tourist authority, lol, those hotels looked like something out of a horror film, did you see the film "saw", i cant recolect one thing in that video that i liked, it stinks of chinese developments to me but all they have done is ruin it, that 1st set of massive buildings i thought could have been a hospital but corridors way to narrow ,got to have been workers accommodation blocks, then the other place with all the glass partitions in it must have been offices, and that massive hanger would have been a factory of some sort, i wonder how much they wanted for those new builds, and who the f,k would pay big money to stay in those hotels ?,. ive been watching paddy doyle videos on laos and he's changed my mind on it, but i'm going to see what picture he paints of cambodia and view his videos , i hope you show us cambodias beach front around kampot before you leave,?. ffs beirut looks a better option than this hell hole, thanks for taking one for the team richy, cheers ,.

[@ParkinsonRaw]

Haha thanks mate, they all had a weird feeling. I like Paddy but he is to much this is great and not any of the bad stuff. It doesn’t draw the true picture of where you are.

[@kellydavison2656]

Really good.👌 love your inquisitiveness, but would i nelly have gone anywhere near some of them dodgy gaffs😮 keep following your nose, but get yourself something to protect it , before you explore/snoop about. 🫣 was expecting something to leap through an opening in the graffitied Palace. I wonder how much £ could be made , in recycling their waste?? ( im sure money would be an insensitive, ) Their major crime is the pollution (as well as /lung breathing probs etc) The whole bigger picture. Heyho I'll shut up , could spout loads !! Keep Safe mate x

[@ParkinsonRaw]

Haha thanks Kelly, all makes for a good vlog🤣🤣x