Kampot, Cambodia Travel Blogs

Tropical Paradise and the Big City!
Jun 15, 2009

... we went...strange... I took a tuk-tuk to Sochua's house. Sochua is a Member of Parliament with the Sam Rainsy Party, Cambodia's Opposition Party. I met her, over email, about 3 years ago, when I was first interested in volunteering in Cambodia, and she put ...

Kampot and beyond
Mar 12, 2008 (40 photos)

Well I've finaly left the beach! I traveled about two hours away to the Provincial Capital of Kempot. This small classic French colonial and Chinese architecture style town is set on the Kampong Bay River at the base of the Elephant Mountians. Set with ...

Cambodia Recollections
Feb 15, 2007

Cambodia summary Overall we didn't enjoy Cambodia as much as other countries we've been to, and in fact we both suffered from the doldrums a little bit.  There were a few reasons, we think.  There is definitely a palpable sense that the country ...

In a hurry
Jan 25, 2005 (7 photos)

... , a town about two hours from S'ville. After arriving I found a motodup who could take me to one of Cambodia's hidden treasures; an ancient temple inside a cave that's slowly being absorbed by stalagmites and stalactites: a mystical place! Afterwards he ...

Kampot
Jun 6, 2007 (7 photos)

Kampot is a tiny fishing village town and is in a beautiful location between Kampot river and the sea. We finally got to a beach however the water down here is sooo hot it was like swimming in a hot bath and there are no waves because the gulf is nearly ...

3 Tage lesen / Very low blood pressure
Jul 11, 2006 (1 photos)

... Freundes dorthin und wollen von dort auch an den Strand. Nachdem das Wetter nicht strandmaessig ist, bleiben wir nur in Kampot und verbringen die Zeit hauptsaechlich mit lesen. Wir quartieren uns im "Blissful Guesthouse" (blissful=glueckselig) ein und ...

A day with Tee and his family.
Apr 5, 2006 (12 photos)

... on the way back, first Tees then about 15 minutes later ours. We stopped off to see the sunset on the way back and reached Kampot around 6.30pm. The other guest who had been on the tour arrived soon after us, they all said they had a good time but they ...

Kampot, Sud du Cambodge, 2 Mars 2008
Mar 2, 2008

On va aujourd'hui a la station climatique de Bokor, situee a 1080m d'altitude, lieu de jeux et detente des autorites francaises, avec ses hotels et casinos. Des milliers de cambodgiens ont trouve la mort lors de la construction penible de la ...

A Storm in Heaven
Mar 20, 2009

... a car bomb sounds like". It turned out to be thunder, but the nmost rip-roaring thunder either of us have ever heard. Cambodia does good storms and the bedroom was lit up for the next hour (this was 3am) with a ferocious electrical storm and torrential ...

Very Unproductive Day
Dec 7, 2004

Not really much to say about this day except we spent all afternoon in an internet cafe catching up on this thing. So I hope you all appreciate the effort!!!!;o)

Cambodian Haircut
Mar 13, 2008 (5 photos)

I don't know if this was worth a entry but I felt like a kid getting a haircut for the first time at the Barber Shop. For $1.25 I got a shave and one of the best haircuts ever!

Moving on to Kampot
Apr 4, 2006 (5 photos)

... good to be able to chill with them on that kind of level. The rest of the guests are going on a tour tomorrow but we have been invited by Tee to accompany him to a family gathering. It will be a taste of real Cambodia (as if tonight wasn't real enough!).

Kampot
Apr 22, 2009 (15 photos)

We took the bus to Kampot and arrived in the early afternoon. When we got off the bus there was a guy with pictures of his guest house that was on the river. The rooms were $5 per night and he said that he would give us a ride there for free. We could look ...

Kampot
Jan 5, 2007 (3 photos)

... manque vraiment d aventures. Cest donc avec beaucoup de soulagement et d enthousiame que je suis partit en taxi collectif vers Kampot. J y est passe l apres midi a chercher un moyen d aller voir le parc national du Bokor au milieu des anciennes maisons ...

Kampot / Kep
Jan 27, 2009 (9 photos)

I made a brief overnight trip to the sleepy coastal resort town of Kampot. The rundown French colonial architecture is interesting to see, and the nearby town of Kep was worth a motorbike ride. The area's big attraction, the long-since abandoned (and ...

Kam Pot
Apr 16, 2006 (10 photos)

Bus to Kam Pot - Hua Luan company very good. Although the roads turned into a dirt track and we bounced out of our seats most of the way. Nearly ran over a pig, then skidded in the dust to miss a small dog. Bit hairy. Houses en route mainly wooden and ...

Ghost Town
Mar 14, 2007 (5 photos)

... to Kampot. Located high above town, 41km but 2 hours along a truly terrible road, it's significantly cooler than elsewhere in Cambodia, and also very, very empty. When the afternoon mist rolls in over the forested hills, the hollow shells of the ...

bicycling around town
Mar 25, 2009 (13 photos)

... sure) and it making a new town up there.  Bye, bye eerie little town and huge tourist attraction.  Not sure why Cambodia would let this happen. One day we rented a motorbike and cruised to Kep (it is best not to do this on the weekend ...

Pepper county
Feb 14, 2007 (4 photos)

... a liberal addition of sugar, so maybe that's why they taste so good.  Maybe the pepper's awful.  We'll never know.  Kampot is a bit of a dusty one-horse town which we've seen very little of, but what we did do today was take a day-trip ...

Cheese, Graffiti, Pepper and Durian
Mar 24, 2008 (40 photos)

... we just came from (Cambodia and Vietnam)!  Oh the life of a traveller! My third week in Cambodia was spent relaxing in the the southern town of Kampot, about 5-6 hours bus ride from Phnom Penh.  Once again, I had the luxury of leaving my ...

Phew Quoc
Jan 11, 2007 (5 photos)

... Cambodia tomorrow! The Khmer Rouge and the Angkor Wat - a country of extremes and we're both looking forward to it. More photos to come, pesky interwebnet connection in Cambodia is slower than the bus to Bangkok (10 hours plus border control, yippee).

The Gokor tour in Kampot
Apr 6, 2006 (13 photos)

... of decades and there were braches hanging out into the road, all this made for a rough and thoroughly unpleasant journey. But then it's Cambodia, you kind of expect it to be that way. I was pretty cool with it really, it was way better than our first trip ...

Teaching english isn't as easy as it sounds!
May 24, 2008 (37 photos)

... I was and then if I was married, when I said no they asked, "What's wrong with you?"  Then they asked if I came to Cambodia to find a husband so I could have kids before I got too old!  It was funny, I couldn't really explain to them that I was ...

Mass transport and amusement parks
Apr 11, 2007

... nbsp; I was impressed that no one started throwing up until we'd covered at least 40 kilometers... travel is fun! Kampot is a fairly small town on Cambodia's southern coast.  We passed by the gulf of thailand on the ride down here, so I did see the ...

River Deep, Mountain High
Dec 19, 2006 (3 photos)

... given that the car was full. Not so - the taxi driver refused to go until we had found another three passengers headed Kampot to fit in the car. This would have been a difficult proposition, given that there were already two fairly big Western-sized guys ...

First day of the Canoe trip
Nov 23, 2007 (10 photos)

We woke up to take a breakfast with Jean Yves and all his family before to taker a ''Charette'' kind of tuktuk which will bring us 50 to 60 km north to start our Canoe journey. Before to start, we took a big lunch of noodles with a strange salsa made with ...

The real Cambodia
Nov 18, 2006 (28 photos)

... hat mir so ziemlich alles abverlangt!! Habe mich auf halber Strecke paar Aussis angehaengt die extra fuers Enduroelen nach Cambodia gekommen sind. Im Westen gaebe es endlose Jungletracks zum riden schwaermten die australischen Freaks:) Auf dem Berg steht ...

Happy New Year!
Apr 14, 2007

... , while driving.  :-) Also visited Bokor National Park, which is an old french hill station.  When the french ruled cambodia, they had some serious problems with the hot season - apparently summer in kampot is a lot different than summer in ...

Kampot
Jul 1, 2005 (2 photos)

The main attraction for me in Kampot was the old abandoned hill station fifty kilometers up nearby Bokor mountain. The hill station was a luxury resort during the french occupation. There's not much left of the small winding roar up so it requires a 4x4 or ...

Old colonial town and bumpy roads
Jan 8, 2006

... . We spent a few minutes talking as he told me some info about the town. It was really bizarre, speaking French in Cambodia... The next day, I was off to see the Bokor National Park and its hill station town. Trekked through the "jungle", bumped up ...