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Kampot Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Kampot, Cambodia
Oh we got the Crabs!
... few tourists other than a few French obviously trying to relive ancestral stories. That was a quiet, educational and relaxing end to Cambodia. We were heading to Vietnam, unsure really of how we were getting there, what border crossing we were taking or ...
Day 22 Kampot
... improve there English, we felt like the pipe piper the way all the kids came to follow us on our walk. I love the children of Cambodia they are so friendly and intrigued by tourist. On our walk to the temple we had to walk across small planks of wood ...
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 ...
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 ...
Salt
... get a nice view of the coastline, including an island that is part of Viet Nam (well, it was apparently meant to be given back to Cambodia but wasn't - that's one part of the story anyway). But to get to the island, you have to go into VN by land to ...
L'ascension du Bokor
... , tandis que les paysans s'affairent, comme partout en Asie les habitations sont regroupées le long des routes. J'arrive tout juste à Kampot pour le coucher de soleil, à l'heure de pointe des mobylettes... Il ne m'aura fallu qu'une heure pour ...
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 ...
Kampot and Bokor Hill Station
Spent two days in the small city of Kampot.On Wednesday I went to the Bokor Hill Station, an abandoned hill station with a big casino/hotel. There was so much fog that it was like a horror movie. We were wet, cold and riding on the back of pick up track ...
Storms and a smiling American
A massive relaxed day where we watched The Killing Fields movie, explored the little town, ate ice cream and played pool. Tonight we watched more movies - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Harold and Kumar go to White ...
Mini golf caves
Today Wout and I enjoyed a relatively cheap breakfast at the hostel and then rented two motorbikes to take us around the south coast. We left and headed for the quiet port town of Kep. The motorbikes were fast, but the roads were pocked with pot holes. ...
Bokor Biking
... is considered to be the best in the world. Something we found quite entertaining is that in a lot of rural Cambodia they have massive statues and sculptures on their roundabouts. This is apparently not entirely decorative. Part of the reason is ...
All about the perspective...
... toilet on the way back. I had to giggle to myself when I was thinking "ooohh this is a really nice toilet" and for rural Cambodia it was almost gold star, it had a western style toilet pan, a bowl and some water to flush with, a rubbish bin and the ...
last few weeks
After our quick flight from north vietnam down to south, me tom and nath said goodbye to elliot and carried on back to cambodia. We spent a couple of days in Sihanoukville, but then decided to go to Kampot to see guys friend Pedro. We arrived and found ...
Too much time at the beach
... spending more time than I should have in Sihanoukville I took the decision to forego one day on my Vietnam visa and head to Kampot. There is only one way to do this, share taxi. Unfortunately there wasnt much demand so ended up paying over the odds but ...
sleepy daze, comfort food, TV distracts
... and the chicken were overcooked. With a couple of drinks it was about the single most expensive meal we’ve had in Cambodia - $20. Feeling sated if not wholesomely better we tootled back around to the moto rental shop and dropped it off. Walking ...
In search of the abandoned casino!
... national park). It was first built in 1921 by the French colonial settlers as an escape from the heat and humidity in Cambodia. Nine hundred lives were lost in its construction. The centerpiece of the resort was the grand Bokor Palace Hotel & Casino, ...
Rainy Kampot
Had one dry day in Kampot but now the monsoon rains from Pakistan are here for a while and there are constant showers and heavy downpours. The streets are flooding and the river looks ready to burst its banks. However, the positive about being ...
day 320: no more ghosts in town
... , built by the French together with the king and abandoned after the clash with the Khmer Rouge it lies on 1075m on Cambodia's second highest mountain and can be accessed only with special permission over a rather bad road... I've read. Unfortunately the ...
Back in the south
... seafood restaurants with a view of the sunset framing the island of Phu Quoc. This island is one of the sore points between Cambodia and its neighbours, in this case Veitnam. It was taken over by Veitnam during the war ( guessing Cambodian civil war) ...
Caves, salt and pepper
Kampot is another little town in Cambodia known for its salt fields and pepper farms so of course whilst here we took a sightseeing tour including both these things. In addition to this we also went to see some caves which is also recommended. In addition ...
Nationalparks, Zoos und Ruinen
... werden immer mehr zu Ruinen, die noch dazu die meiste Zeit im Nebel liegen. Echt beeindruckend. Weil wir uns hier in Cambodia befinden und die das mit der Sicherheit nicht so ernst nehmen, kann man auch ueberall rein gehen und alles anschauen (irgendwo ...
Through the jungle we go
... Vietnam as you have to through it to cross the border anyway but we decided to take a slight detour and go down to Kampot in the south of Cambodia - and I am very glad we did. What an amazing place. We got off the bus and just kind of wandered around ...
First round
... many fat men with tiny Asian women around it hurts the eyes. So what's special about Sihanoukville? This place was chosen as Cambodia's main port after it became clear that using the Mae Kong river delta which is in Vietnam was not so good ...
the rats are after me!!!!!
Lets just say my sleep last night left much to be desired: 4:30 am wake up- thinking that someone was trying to break into my room via the roof. I froze for 5 seconds( not quite sure why one does this when clearly there is someone in the bed- it's not ...