OVERVIEW

Project Description
The Pearl is a Hotel and School on the Mekong River in Koh Prak, Kandall Province, 14 km south of Phnom Penh in Cambodia.
The project invites an interactive Environment that fuses education and tourism together.
The Foundations for the architectural landscape lay spiritually with the Temple City of Preah Khan. 
Casual craft vernacular Bungalows, unique to this region, are designed to have minimal environmental impact and refined to become a building language appropriate to Cambodia today, using rattan and brick materials.
The Pearl will be a model for future development, tourism, housing and education in Cambodia.

The project includes: 121 ‘house of fire’ rest accommodations each with modern amenities, entry gopura reception building, ‘The Library’: Two pairs of freestanding buildings at the entry to provide education to local Cambodian children through Innovative Trade Level Careers as well as culturally rich fostering in Art, Music and Dance. Amenities include: restaurant, gardens, spa, shops, marketplace selling local goods made by students at the trade school and benefiting their families, fishmarket, infirmary and mail & package center.


The Pearl…Preface:

A person goes on vacation to escape the daily grind. The 9-5 and longer grudge work in the hopes of obtaining some fulfillment through his/her travels.

Most people book hotel rooms, typical of their own homes providing the same comforts they already know, and return from their vacation once again unfulfilled of the something else…

The Pearl seeks to reinvent the idea of travel to provide on a human level, the basic fulfillment needs while on vacation or business.

People helping People: clearly visibly; during vacation…holiday.

In action, the project spurs economic growth in Developing Countries. 

The Hotel also provides education to local children on the premise.

Children in provinces around Phnom Penh, Cambodia have limited access if any to internet, resources and educational tools necessary to succeed in an ever increasing globally connected environment. 

The developed world can learn, too.

A guest walks through the herb or vegetable garden sometime after check-in and touches a basil leaf. At dinner, the local chef merging skills with international chefs, has prepared the meal incorporating this leaf. 

A child learning to research finds an organic food store local to the guest’s home, based on his/her geographic location in the world. The child writes or types a recipe for the dish to be provided with the guest’s receipt, so the guest can remake the meal when the guest returns home.

People learn from each other.

Cambodians have a rich heritage, in hydrology, agriculture, architecture and spiritual. Due to the genocide in Cambodia, some of this incredible history and cultivation of knowledge has been lost. It is my hope to help reclaim these efforts in a cultural exchange and strengthening of spirit. 
Theravada Buddhism is the largest practicing religion in Cambodia. 

Traditionally, Buddhist monks teach Cambodian children in rural areas English, education and trades under Pagodas throughout South East Asia.

At the hotel, a holistic oasis with retreat for spa, relaxing, swimming and yoga is incorporated, also.

It is my hope to incorporate these elements into a fantastic hotel that brings multiple cultures together in a harmonious and beautiful way.


Sponsoring the sincere effort to realize this dream is an altruistic benefit to everyone. This project will be built and those who have helped will be recognized with their names engraved on the entry ‘Gift Wall’. 
People who believe in the power of a project like this can make a difference. 

Please enjoy, fall-in love, and support this project. The dream and the vision is to start in Cambodia and to create a new business model: philanthropy integrated in business practice. The Pearl in Cambodia is the first in Charting New Territories. The intent is to Create this new Map of Philanthro-Village hotel projects the World over…come support and celebrate and make dreams come true : )

The Pearl

The Pearl