Waterfalls Popokvil, Bokor National Park, Cambodia (photo)

Waterfalls Popokvil. Bokor National Park. Popokvil Waterfall Popokvil, meaning swirling clouds, is possibly named after the lingering mist over its two tiers. The waterfall is set in lush jungle and is located a couple of kilometers away from the Hill Station site. The falls run dry at the end of the dry season, but swell up during the rainy season. Around Popokvil you can find the Utricularia Striatula, a small (barely 1 cm in diameter) carnivorous plant that grows on wet rocks or tree trunks. The tiny plant appears to be a flower, and can be found in white, pink and lilac. Preah Monivong National Park (Phnom Bokor National Park) was established by Royal decree in 1993. Named after its shape, Phnom Bokor (ox hump mountain) is part of the Elephant Mountain range. The park spans an area of about 1580 square kilometres of protected, dense primary rainforest, bordering the Cardamom Mountain Range in the East, Kirirom National Park in the North and ending less then a kilometre from the coastline in the South. WildAid started monitoring wildlife on Bokor in 2001. Aided by trap cameras they found Bokor Mountain’s lush and moist forest the perfect habitat for a wide variety of rare and threatened animals, including the Indian elephant, leopards, Asiatic black bears, Malayan sun bears, pileated gibbons, pig-tailed macaques, slow lorises, red muntjac deer, lesser mouse deer, pangolins, yellow-throated martins, small Asian mongooses and various species of civet, porcupine, squirrel and bat. As most of these animals are notoriously shy and nocturnal, they tend to reside very deep in the forest. Some flora and fauna are found exclusively within Preah Monivong NP. Photographed in 2013