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Architecture

Architecture

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15 years ago

FOFO

juliasegal:

I like ‘em cute and mean.

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14 years ago
Evolution Zumbie

Evolution Zumbie

15 years ago
Urban

Urban

15 years ago
Foot

foot

14 years ago

feltron:

Muji Handkerchief

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15 years ago

(via lori-rocks)

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15 years ago
Chat Couleur

chat couleur

15 years ago

robotindisguise:

She’s the Angelina Jolie of the animal world.

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15 years ago

fuckyeahghosttowns:

Bokor Hill Station, Cambodia (via)

Bokor Hill Station is an abandoned French town in Preah Monivong National Park, located in northern Cambodia.

The town was built in 1921 as a resort by the colonial French settlers to offer an escape from the heat, humidity and general insalubrity of Phnom Penh. Nine hundred lives were lost in nine months during the construction of the resort in this remote mountain location. The centrepiece of the resort was the grand Bokor Palace Hotel & Casino, complemented by shops, a post office, a church and the Royal Apartments. It is also an important cultural site, showing how the colonial settlers spent their free time.

Bokor Hill was abandoned first by the French in late 1940s, during the First Indochina War, because of local insurrections guided by the Khmer Issarak, and then for good in 1972, as Khmer Rouge took over the area. During the Vietnamese invasion in 1979, Khmer Rouge entrenched themselves and held on tightly for months. In earlier 1990s Bokor Hill was still one of the last strongholds of Khmer Rouge.

Now abandoned, most of the buildings are still standing. The site is owned by the government but is under 99–year lease to the Sokimex Group who are undertaking to relay the road and redevelop the site, repairing the old hotel and casino along with new buildings.

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