Kampot, Cambodia Travel Blogs

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 ...

Phu Quoc
Mar 13, 2005 (21 photos)

Phu Quoc Island used to be a prison colony during the French colonial rule and during the war with the Americans. It was then used as a re-education camp after independence in 1975. It is now a tourist hotspot teeming with new constructions. There are ...

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 ...

From the land of pepper, plum wine, and wild boars
Feb 8, 2006 (28 photos)

... and Amy at an internet cafe. They weren't going to Vietnam until Friday, but rather than go on my own, I decided to wait another day in Kampot. In the end, I spent more time in Cambodia than I had planned, lulled by the country's relaxed pace and sunshine.

Desterted town in the mountains
Feb 24, 2007 (34 photos)

Kampot had been on the cards since we had a recommendation from someone we met in Laos about 'perhaps the best guest house ever!'. She certainly wasn't wrong when we arrived at Bodhi Villa and settled into our bungalow that floated on the river. Spending ...

Down by the river
Mar 10, 2008

... . We were both pretty surprised at the poor conditions that the soldiers and their families were living in - it seems Cambodia (like the UK) feels it unnecessary to provide clean living quarters for military personnel. After the hill station, we ...

Insights From Kampot: East and West
Feb 7, 2008

From my perspective, the main difference between East and West is the concept of capturing the moment (or day). In the West, capturing the moment means to make the best out of it: grab opportunities, take actions to secure a better future, and ...

Kampot
May 14, 2007

... was very funny.  Also some really good meat which i have no idea what it was!  But mainly i felt very welcome.  Kampot province i lovely and the whole week i got lots of comments on how beautiful i was - having white skin and a western nose ...

Insights from Kampot: Everyone's a teacher
Feb 6, 2008

Accept everyone and they will become your teachers.

Insights From Kampot: Joyous ways of life
Feb 10, 2008

Each and every way of life is a joyous opportunity.

Break for the Border...
Jan 5, 2008 (6 photos)

... dock of a riverside guesthouse,             among the palm trees, Kampot, Cambodia... 11.45 pm - swimming in the river amid the sparkling phosphorescence under the moonlight     & ...

The South Coast
May 14, 2005 (4 photos)

... a strange sensation wandering around the crumbling corridors imagining both the parties and the horrors that have taken place there. This being Cambodia though they'd set up an impromptu cafe at the edge of the building where we had lunch. In a country ...

Kampot
Feb 15, 2007 (4 photos)

... ; street vendors.   The next day I joined a tour of Bokor Nat'l Park.  The park is the largest nature preserve in Cambodia and also home to an abandoned resort town at the top of the mountain.  The king had a small palace in the area and ...

Kampot
Jan 4, 2006 (10 photos)

4th Jan Work in progress

Rat and Ruin
Nov 15, 2008

Waiting for the festival to finish before we can get Laos visas, we head off to the south coast, to Kampot, a small, ex-colonial, sleepy riverside town. Here we walked to a nearby fishing village, biked to some rapids and to a depressing zoo, had ...

Mit chauffiertem Motorrad ueber die Grenze!
Jun 20, 2008 (7 photos)

... , aber zusaetzlich noch einen neuen Swimming Pool und Schweizer Spezialitaeten wie Roesti auf der Speisekarte! Die Weiterreise nach Kampot ist ein Katzensprung, und dauert mit dem lokalen Bus nur 30 Minuten.Er faehrt taeglich am spaeten Morgen  in ...

Kampot Province
Aug 10, 2006 (15 photos)

Erin and I caught a share taxi to Kampot, one of the French Colonial ports of Cambodia. To some, it is famous for producing some of the worlds finest black pepper. Its location at the base of the mountains, among a basin of rice paddies, straddling a ...

Grate food and amazing women in Kampot
Feb 17, 2009

Will be updated soon...

The sleepy riverside town of Kampot!
Apr 12, 2006 (11 photos)

... on a day tour with Monkey tours and our transport for the day was a pick-up truck! Bokor National Park is one of Cambodia's largest protected areas, it was used by the Khmer Rouge during the 1970's and recently it has been illegal logged! The road was the ...

Bodhi Villa
Mar 13, 2009 (15 photos)

The place where nothing really happens... ;)

Krapot
Oct 15, 2005

Read about Kampot in Sihanoukville entry,

Kampot
Sep 11, 2008 (8 photos)

A few pics from our two day visit to Kampot. The rains continued for most of the time but we still had fun exploring the city....

Kampot
Nov 30, 2008 (10 photos)

... speak that much English, but was able to tell me about a new project to build a house for a woman and her daughter near Kampot. It sounded like an interesting projects so I hopped on Thy's moped and we went to a small fishing village about 10km away. The ...

Caving and Trekking...
Aug 16, 2009 (5 photos)

... deciding on a whim to do something in the afternoon - after a quick chat with a tuk-tuk driver we decide to go see some caves outside Kampot. We say we have to get dinner first but he says, no problem - food on the way! So we set off and go for lunch ...

Nudie Man
Jul 12, 2008 (20 photos)

A bit of a disappointment upon arriving in Kampot - we came down to this small town to do a hike up to Bokor mountain station and hotel but we found out it was closed for 3 months to fix the road. Bokor was once a popular mountain resort overlooking the ...

Bokor Hill Station
Jan 1, 2008 (10 photos)

Hello, We have just spent the last few days in the chilled out town of Kampot in the south of Cambodia. On the way here we passed through Kep once a favourite with the French as a beachside retreat you can see the former glory days from the large ornate ...

A little Cambodia beach Action
Nov 9, 2005 (5 photos)

Spent a couple days just laying by the beach. Watching the sunsets, reading, getting surrounded by the locals trying to sell us anything from lobster to sewing jonathan's flip-flop. Oh, and i cannot forget those fresh pinapple shakes!! yum!