A tented accommodation overlooking the water at Shinta Mani Wild in Cambodia Image: Shinta Mani Wild

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May 1, 2019

Shinta Mani Wild is the personal project of one of the most flamboyant figures in luxury travel.

" Over the years, Bensley’s Bangkok-based architecture firm became synonymous with exotic resorts created for InterContinental, St. Regis, J.W. Marriott, Oberoi, Anantara — in fact just about every major hotel company you can think of. The property that first made him famous, however, was the Hideaway Report-recommended 15-room tented camp that he designed for Four Seasons at Chiang Rai, in northern Thailand"

"When I arrived in Phnom Penh after a four-and-a-half-hour flight from Shanghai, there were just three other commercial jets parked at the terminal, only one of which belonged to the national airline, Cambodia Airways. For a capital city, in the middle of the day, this seemed surprising. "

"After about three hours, we turned off the highway onto a dirt road and headed into a forested landscape dominated by the peaks of the Cardamom Mountains, which rise to an elevation of nearly 6,000 feet."

"Bensley’s designs are often based on a story or a theme, and Shinta Mani Wild was inspired by a trip that King Norodom Sihanouk arranged for Jackie Kennedy on her visit to Cambodia in 1967. (An extremely large, slightly incongruous portrait of the first lady occupies pride of place in the main dining room.) As a result, the property resembles an old-fashioned colonial-style safari camp, with brass fixtures, leather chairs, dark wood furniture, steamer trunks, silverware and crystal tumblers and decanters."

"A heavy wooden door opened into a spacious air-conditioned bedroom with an elevated king-size bed, bookshelves, framed prints, ceiling fans, custom furniture and an old-fashioned Bakelite telephone with which to summon room service. A counter made from a stretch of varnished tree trunk ran along an entire side of the room, into which were set two brass sinks. Lights and gilt-framed mirrors were suspended from the ceiling, an arrangement driven more by the design aesthetic than the needs of those wishing to apply makeup or shave. A separate room contained a monsoon shower."

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That would hafta be tmor baeng I reckon
In which case, it's hardly remote.

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