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- Phnom Penh
- Capital
- Riel (KHR)
- Currency
- 12,491,501
- Population
- KH
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Kampot Slideshow
Kampot
Travel Blogs from Kampot, Cambodia
Kampot
Dec 21- I squeezed into a mini-van with 19 locals for the 3 hour trip to >> Kampot. Kampot is a quiet little town located on the Kampong river and >> has some nice french colonial architecture. I ran into the 2 german girls >> that I had met in Bangkok ...
Court sejour
J ai fait le trajet d une quarantaine de kms entre Kep et Kampot en tuktuk et c etait absolument magnifique. Une petite route paisible au bord de l eau pour commencer et dans la campagne cambodgienne par la suite. Lorsque le chauffeur me laisse a la ...
Bokor hill en bezoek aan Reun
Dag 8 - donderdag 23 oktober: Treinreis op het dak van de trein Sihanoukville-Kampot. Namiddag stadswandeling Kampot. Overnachting in Mealy Chenda Guesthouse. Dag 9 - vrijdag 24 oktober: Achterop de 250 cc moto bezoek aan Bokor hill Station. Dag 10 - ...
Ahhhh new years and 5 days off
... in the entries! So now we move to Khmer New Year, a wonderful 5 day weekend, this is a time of great celebration in Cambodia. It's meant to be the happiest public holiday in the year, lots of dancing and games. Also a great respect for their elders, ...
Inselleben
5 Tage auf der Insel, ich könnte noch einige Tage mehr bleiben! Leider wird mir in spätestens 2 Tagen das Bargeld ausgehen! Aber ich will auch noch unbedingt nach Laos und am Ende meiner Reise kann ich ja nochmals für ca 10 Tage nach Thailand auf eine ...
Good sleep, happy make
... Wat is proving to be one of the most fascinating reads to try to understand the madness behind this character and Cambodia's autogenocide. - Chuck Norris's autobiography: still not started but we are sure we will enjoy it, although its tripled spaced ...
Kampot Pepper and Kep Crab
... on crabs so what better to have than crabs in a Kampot pepper sauce! it was delicious! Finally we went on a sunset cruise (in a long tail boat, nothing fancy) along the river running through Kampot. So our two nicest meals in Cambodia were on this trip! ...
Island hopping in cambodia
... We were right to be cautious of snakes, there was a sign at the other end warning about at least 8 different poisonous snakes in Cambodia and scary facts like 1 in 5 people die every year, so many are disabled and how far away the nearest hospital is from ...
The best ribs I ever ate.
... and Murphy wasn't gonna say no so we thought we'd check it out and it really was - The best rack of ribs in Cambodia! Spent a lot of time in cafes, chillaxing and recovering after Sihanoukville. Freshly baked cookies at Epic Arts Cafe - staffed by deaf ...
What a lovely place
This is described in our Rough Guide as "öne of Cambodia's finest provincial towns". Hmmmm. Did the person writing this actually visit this place? It was overpriced, ugly beyond words, derelict, and we were waiting for the tumbleweed to roll down ...
Sleepy Kampot
... breakfast Hired bicycle for $1 & explored around town. Hired a motodup each for $7 each for 4 hours to explore out of town Kampot is a colonial port city – no longer a port & very empty & quiet. Grow Durian – smelly spiked fruit. ...
Sep 06, 2010
Merry Christmas
After a long bus ride, a short night in Phnom Penh and another short bus ride I am back at Ganesha Riverside in Kampot. Nice people like before and a relaxing atmosphere. We have a nice dinner and the kids in the resort are going crazy about ...
Friendly Indifference
... only had smiles and "Hello"s for me, before handing back my passport with permission granted to explore country number four! Cambodia's blue and red flags flutter from most shops and buildings and every mile or so holds a large sign with three ...
Exploring the countryside
We decided to visit Kampot in order to see some of Cambodia's countryside, after previously only staying in the big cities. After having a bit of a row with the taxi driver who suddenly decided that he did not want to drive us up the bumpy road (man up), ...
The Final Call for Cambodia
... English food, Quiz nights and plenty of hammocks to chill out in I was more than happy to run out my remaining time in Cambodia here. Kampot was almost identical to Koh Kong in so far that there were only really a couple of things to do if you wanted to ...
Last days in Cambodia
... oil massage on the sand to break up the "monotony" of reading and dipping in the ocean. The perfect ending to my time in Cambodia. So tomorrow I'm off to Vietnam. I'll be arriving during the peak of tourist season from Saigon, so hopefully I'll be able to ...
Hanging out with villagers
... countryside. I made my way back quickly, which was quite dangerous. After half an hour, I arrived at the guest house in Kampot... Soaking wet, despite wearing a (cheapo) raincoat. It rained for the rest of the afternoon, which I spent relaxing in my room, ...
Kampot, the Bokor Hill Station and Kep
... bread, cocktail and beer, sitting on a terrace built over the sea front, watching the sun slowly go down. Nice way to finish a nice day. Next morning we took a bus from Kampot to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia and our final stop before Vietnam. ...
hello hello hello!!!
... afternoon we cycled the length of fish island which was quite cool as there were no tourists, so we got to see proper rural Cambodia. the island is just made up of huge salt farms which is quite an incredible view. Needless to say after cycling 40km on ...
Loving Cambodia
... for a very longgggggggggggg and early but very althentic bus ride through Penhom Penn and on to Kampot along the south coast of Cambodia. Releaved and shocked we arrived after 10 hours as the bus had seen better days and the ...
Pooh sticks
... peaceful and quiet, all you can hear in the evenings are the songs of the crickets. No one who comes to the South of Cambodia should miss out on this place. It gives you a taste of authentic Cambodian rural lives. It is a great place to just relax, ...
PEPPERRRRRRRS!
... but soon realized he's just crackers! That night Graham (who claimed he wouldn't drink) and Dani polished off a whole bottle of gin and Gra ended up doing the famous kampot pepper shot. I think his mouth was still burning come the ...
Sun and surf at Shianoukville
... at her job we headed down to the seaside town of Shianoukville. The drive down was really interesting, passing through rural Cambodia. 230kms, 4.5 hours and several degrees of deafness (from the constant honking of the bus driver)later we arrived. I ...
Adventures in and around Kampot
... , but whatever it was it was very cool. The following day I was pretty tired from the previous day's hike, so I hung around Kampot, having breakfast at a cafe run by deaf and disabled people. I sat next to a French girl who's been volunteering there ...
Adventures in and around Kampot - part 2
... a vague idea that it probably comes from the sea. The tour was really interesting, as Kampot and Kep provinces have produced all the salt for Cambodia since Chinese immigrants had brought the technique to the country. The area is perfect for ...
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Kampot part 3! [+short history of Cambodia!]
... but progressing ridiculously slowly and gradually they're all dying off peacefully of old age, it's disgusting. Now the population of Cambodia is overwhelmingly young, but sometimes when you see an older person (and we're talking middle aged not just ...