22 Grand Old Railway Hotels Left Vacant Along Forgotten Routes

3. Bokor Palace Hotel & Casino, Bokor Hill Station, Cambodia: Jungle's Colonial Ghost

Perched atop Bokor Mountain, this hauntingly beautiful colonial hotel opened in 1925, a luxurious retreat for French elites accessible via a challenging road and historically linked to a narrow-gauge railway further below. It witnessed glamorous parties, then fell silent during Cambodia's turbulent decades, reclaimed by the jungle and mist. Its empty ballrooms and decaying grandeur, overlooking the Gulf of Thailand, speak of a lost colonial era and the dramatic shifts of history, making it an icon of abandoned opulence on a route truly forgotten by its original clientele.