Kampot, Cambodia Travel Blogs

Kids, Caves and Palm Wine
Jan 25, 2006 (20 photos)

... kind of expecting so we stayed there one night and moved to a much nicer place for the same price the next day. Near kampot is Bokor Nationl Park, very beautiful with an eery deserted hill top station (another place ruined by the Khmer Rouge) at the top ...

Kampot
May 4, 2006 (44 photos)

Kampot is a small town known for it's high quality pepper cultivation. We used Kampot as a quiet stepping stone to the small beachside town of Kep before heading to the big city, Phnom Penh-- Cambodia's capital.

Ghost stories: the living and the dead
Mar 13, 2006 (22 photos)

... sure I don't give the watching moto drivers something to really look at. As I approach my guesthouse, I think, that this is a perfect way to end my stay in Cambodia, enjoying the life of the country, the love that has managed to survive so much terror.

Kampot Kristmas - Kep, Krabs and Kreps
Jan 1, 2004 (14 photos)

... night - rice, chilli sauce and a whole roasted duck from the market - yummy! Leaving PP, we took a shared taxi to Kampot in southern Cambodia, near the sea. On reaching Kampot, we took 2 motocycle taxis to the little seaside town of Kep where we booked ...

Fear Factor Finalist
Apr 7, 2007 (1 photos)

... , off we were in an 80's Toyota Camary (I think this is the only car the Cambodians actually have, it is as if Cambodia is the heaven for all the old, used, sometimes working, Toyota Camary's of the world) to Kampot. Renting bikes and riding ...

Quiet Kampot
Oct 7, 2003 (3 photos)

After a lot of city, we decided to go somewhere quieter so we headed south to Kampot, a small provincial town close to the southern coast of Cambodia. Not much to say about this place, but it was actually very lovely, and we were some of the only tourists ...

Abandoned on the Cambodian coast
Aug 16, 2004

With 20 new and very close Cambodian friends (and one driver) I made the 2.5 hour trip by 11-seater mini van to Kampot, a nice, relaxed little town near the southwest Cambodian coast. Shockingly, it was on a river and full of old French colonial buildings. ...

Responsible Extreme Ho-ing
Mar 23, 2005 (8 photos)

... into a confrontation between the owner (an expat of 4 years) and Adam (an expat of 7 years) about everything in Cambodia. Nothing was agreed upon. Whether or not the Khmer Rouge (KR) were still active. Whether they deserved US support. Whether they ...

And then it poured...
May 19, 2006

$5 exit fee Moto mafia RAIN

Animal Magnetism
Jul 16, 2005 (3 photos)

Easy Rider Part Deux
Feb 1, 2008 (37 photos)

Continuing my motorbike exploration of southern Cambodia, I headed over to Kampot, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold and a place still catching on to tourism.  The 100 km (60 miles or so) trip over here from Sihanoukville was pretty cool and I took ...

Kampotable
Jul 15, 2005 (2 photos)

Bikes and Caves
May 21, 2006 (40 photos)

... back place, but with a few more luxuries of past years. I know things move ahead with the times, but I still prefer the old Kampot I visited years ago. So, tomorrow, we head on back to Phnom Penh, and then we go North, and head up to Laos, where the ...

Bank Holiday
Jul 18, 2005

Doing my bit for Cambodia.
Jul 3, 2007 (22 photos)

...  If your ever in Kampot, go to Keplers books and ask for mr Sam, for a fantastic tour of Kampot and a true friend in cambodia, i can't recommend it enough. Tell him Ben sent you though!            ...

Kampot and Kep
Feb 5, 2008

... nbsp;genocide era and he was saying how slowly things are changing and soon things would be better for them. We think so, Cambodia is a very special place, stomaches full and heads full of thoughts we enjoyed more of the beautiful countryside back to ...

Danger - Land Mines and Spiders!
Jun 15, 2003

16th June - Today we set off on a day trip to Bokor National Park and the old hill station found there. So far the roads in Cambodia had not been too bad but today things were to change. We had to take a 4 wheel drive pickup truck as the road just gets ...

Kampot
Feb 4, 2005

... We let the other 2 argue it out though and finally set off with just the four of us plus the driver!!! Pheweeeee! Basically Kampot and the area around it is all abit run down from the Khmer Rouge era - it used to have beautiful French colonial buildings ...

Amanda's Intrepid Journey...
Nov 26, 2006 (4 photos)

Kampot is a small town which does not seem to have enough people relative to the number of buildings it has, so it seems like a dusty little ghost town, and for the most part it is.  The main reason travellers come here is to visit Bokor ...

Kampot and back to PP.....
Oct 22, 2009 (10 photos)

... ; Of course, there are other reasons for the delays - at one point we stopped so a wheel could be changed on the bus :) I enjoyed Kampot - I particularly wanted to go there as Rick Stein went there on his show, and raved about the food, so I had a little ...

Twas the night before Halloween, and it was spooky
Oct 30, 2005 (9 photos)

... Doo movie. Continuing in the scary vein, on Halloween day, we all decided to save a little money by taking a "local bus" from Kampot heading north. Big mistake. Let me set the stage, one Toyota miny-van, 19 people inside, 3 on the roof, locals glaring ...

Kampot, Kep and Kompong Trach
Feb 19, 2006 (35 photos)

... catch of fish for the day - she was so proud, and the tiny little kids riding adults bikes that were way to big for them but they managed just by standing on the pedals, a very cute sight. Kampot and its surrounds has really been a highlight in Cambodia!

Kampot Awakening
Jan 23, 2008

I did not mean to come here. Originally, the plan was "to do" Cambodia in two weeks and then continue to Vietnam. I had no idea I'd fall in love with Phnom Penh and stay there for a month. I had no idea that this trip to Kampot (a tiny town with ...

Bokor National Park
Jul 16, 2005 (3 photos)

Trent and I (the aussie guy I met in Sihanoukville) took a taxi to Kampot, about a 3 hour drive. We each paid $3 for the ride, but they packed 7 of us (including the driver) into the tiny four door car. For 3 hours I was smushed between the window and a ...

The Shining
Mar 17, 2007

Hallo zusammen, seit vorgestern bin ich in Kampot, einer kleinen Stadt an der Suedkueste von Kambodscha, keine 50 km von der vietnamesischen Grenze entfernt. Die Stadt selbst gibt ausser einem sehenswerten Wat mit daran angeschlossenem Kloster ...

Insights from Kampot: Enjoying the current moment
Feb 5, 2008

Know where you want to be and trust that you'll get there. In the meantime, relax and enjoy where you currently are.

Insights From Kampot: a joyful journey
Feb 4, 2008

A joyful journey towards my destination is a destination of its own.

Sihanoukville and Kampot
Feb 9, 2006 (7 photos)

... Super Bowl. So I watched the Steelers win while in Shianoukville, Cambodia. Never thought I would watch the big game in Cambodia, but now I have. Then off to Kampot by taxi. This was a scam though. We had paid for a taxi to share the day before for $4 ...

Dirt-biking - 2nd stop Kampot, 3rd stop Bokor NP
Mar 23, 2007 (3 photos)

... angry being there.  Plus the weather isn't great, so I'm not sure its worth staying at a beach for 3 days seeing as I leave Cambodia on the 30th for Malaysia.  Basically I don't know what to do now - something will sort itself out soon enough...

Khmer Rouges last stand
Apr 9, 2008 (2 photos)

... ;                  Kampot. Cambodia Matkalla Kep:sta Sihanoukvilleen paatettiin pysahtya yoksi tanne Kampotin uinuvaan joenvarsi kaupunkiin. Kampot itsessaan ei ...