Kep, Cambodia Travel Blogs

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

... not quite but so refreshing followed by an 'Apocalypse Now' style boat trip down the Mekong - stunning. To see the rest of Kampot and Kep (tiny town near by)we went with two guides on bikes. I say guides but the guide shope was a tiny shack with a list ...

Easy Rider, Part II
May 7, 2006 (32 photos)

... as negative suspension?) that we were in dire need of some wind in our face and some bugs in our teeth. Truly. Despite Cambodia's legendarily awful potholed dirt roads, this streth of highway was quite nicely paved all the way and took us through some ...

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)

... greatest part of the day was the bamboo train we took back to Battambang. There is only 1 train and 1 track in Northern Cambodia and it travels to Battambang from Phnom Penh on one day and in the opposite direction the next. The locals take full advantage ...

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 ...

An overnight adventure to remote ruins
May 10, 2006 (57 photos)

This tale is best told through photos, and this batch is worth several thousand words. (I've included at least a few hundred.) Please click on our photo album for this entry and read the photo captions to join us on our adventure into the Cambodian ...

A long weekend of next to nothing
Oct 31, 2005 (12 photos)

... of the bike, they lept up to offer their services as a guide. Unlike the many other tourist attractions I'd visited in Cambodia, they didn't decide who would guide me amongst themselves, but they all came along! Three older ladies and five children all ...

Abandoned on the Cambodian coast
Aug 16, 2004

... town near the southwest Cambodian coast. Shockingly, it was on a river and full of old French colonial buildings. Go figure. Kep In the afternoon I went by moto through some beautiful rice paddy scenery (another shocker) to Kep, an old resort beach ...

Takeo teaching
Nov 10, 2006 (21 photos)

Hello. This is very brief I'm afraid, am teaching in about 10 mins and have got a 40 min motorbike ride back from town to the school! Hmm. Anyway, all is good here. Still teaching lots. There are a ...

Snorkeling and Sunbathing
Jan 31, 2007 (11 photos)

... four times as many if packed to typical bus standards.  We pulled up to the banks of the river on our way out of Cambodia, and then again a few minutes later on the Vietnamese side.  After the usual visa checks small bribes, it was on to Chau Doc ...

Rabbit Island
Mar 15, 2008 (13 photos)

We left Sihanoukville and made our way by minibus to the seaside town of Kep in order to get a boat over to the island of Ko Tonsay, which is also known as rabbit island due to its shape. After a quick 20 minute ride over the waters in a small wooden boat, ...

Massages, Manicures, and a Mighty Nice Christmas!
Dec 26, 2007 (4 photos)

Merry Christmas Everyone! Its still morning for most of you back home, but our Christmas Day is coming to an end already. We have had a most wonderful day! We slept in a bit, and then wandered down to the beach. We treated ourselves each to a one ...

Adventures in Healthcare
Dec 5, 2007

Four days before I was due to start work I noticed an angry red spot on my back directly on my spine. A blind pimple? A bite? Who knows but it hurt. And then it grew and grew until it was the size and shape of half an advocado. And it really hurt so that ...

Sea food at Kep
Feb 20, 2009

Will be updated soon...

Time for some sun and sand!
Mar 25, 2007

10:00am flight for the islands!

Kep
Nov 6, 2007

Having left Sihnanoukville with major hangovers we decided to head east again and visit Kep. We had been recommended a hotel in Kep called Kep Lodge. THis place was luxury to us after everywhere else.  The hotel was situated on the side of a mountain ...

Kep
Mar 17, 2007

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Kompot/Kep
Jan 30, 2007 (1 photos)

... the driver wanted to put someone else on my lap so I slipped him an extra $2 to the front passenger seat to myself. It is about 100km to Kompot so takes about 2 hours. There's not a lot ih Kompot, but it's a base for exploring Kep and Bokor hill station.

Sleepy Kep
Aug 16, 2009 (1 photos)

... and spend the day no doing much to be honest, relaxing a bit on the riverfront. We decide that today we'll move on to Kep, a small fishing village along the coast. Finding a tuk-tuk driver to take us is easy and he insists that 10USD is a fair price. ...

Phu Quoc Again
Nov 15, 2007 (3 photos)

C - Really possibly the best place to just chill out. Sun, sand, minimal surf (Grant said is like being in a tepid 6 foot deep bath). We got a great room this time, large and comfy, however the hammocks are not quite as good. I have now totally embraced ...

Phu Quoc and the End of Our Travels
Jan 11, 2008 (20 photos)

... waters. We were again with Mark and Natalie, our last trip together before parting our separate ways as they were moving on to Cambodia, and we were heading to find jobs down under. We all checked into our rooms in a hotel right on Long Beach and settled ...

American SeaMen
Jun 7, 2009 (2 photos)

We took a boat to Rabbit Island from Kep.  Rabbit Island is super tiny and you have to stay at little bungalows for $5 a night.  Again the rainy season was miserable because there were clear blue skies and empty beaches.  We started up the ...

Kep (island/beach somewhere in Cambodia)
Mar 3, 2009

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Fish, Sea Slugs, and Coral
Nov 29, 2007 (6 photos)

G - After more than a few weeks of doing very little (actually considerably less than very little) I thought maybe I could check out doing a dive course while we were here. A few weeks after that I thought "yeah. Good idea." And only a few weeks later I ...

Nov 28 - Dec 3
Dec 3, 2006 (23 photos)

... Airlines flights there from Ho Chi Minh City we decided to check it out. Even though it is just off the coast of Cambodia you have to cross into mainland Vietnam to get there because its a disputed terrritory between the two countries. We ...

Assault on my senses
May 3, 2009

... arriving in a sweaty, dusty, filthy, crowded place. Central Market We got a taxi directly to the bus station to catch a bus to Kep, the seaside town we had booked accommodation in. The next bus left in a couple of hours, so we decided to kill time by ...

The Declaration of Holiday
May 4, 2009

... continued along the promenade beside the sea and around the corner to where the beach was. Apparently the sand on Kep beach was imported from Cambodia's beach capital, Sihanoukville. This gave the locals a small strip of sand to swim from, and we sat ...

Phu Quoc
Oct 27, 2007

Jumped on the ferry to Phu Quoc island at 8am to the melody of the Boney M DVD! Our boat trip was uneventful apart from the american girl next to Caroline throwing up! Oncde on the ialand we made our way to The hotels aboard a bike with the man trying ...

Fish Cuisine and Karaoke
Dec 4, 2004 (6 photos)

... surrounded by rubbish and flies, so asked to be moved inside which was organized for us in a flash. Both in Vietnam and Cambodia it is a big thing for all the people to come down to the local restaurants or food stalls and watch the daily soap opera. ...

Kep
Apr 1, 2009

... of the storm clouds we headed for a newly opened crossing into Cambodia. Although from our moto-ride in, Cambodia felt excitingly different from Vietnam, Kep seemed to have little to offer.  However it turns out we did eat our best meal of Cambodia here ...