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Kampot Slideshow
Kampot
Travel Blogs from Kampot, Cambodia
En route to Kampot
... one on the bus spoke English and the driver obviously thought we knew where we were going! Here we experienced a slice of rural Cambodia - we were the only tourists and it takes some getting used to being stared at by absolutely everyone. It was almost ...
Exploring Kampot for a day or two...
... , I thought the island would be a better choice. Well - it was interesting. I have to keep reminding myself that Cambodia is definitely not know for its beaches. Since it was the end of the official Khmer New Year, there was unfortunately a ...
Bumpiest drive EVER
... we had paid in Sihanoukville. It all worked out fine, but it was lame to be so stressed out about it. Kampot (2 hours from Sihanoukville) is the closest town to Bokor National Park where we took the absolute most crazy drive ever up the mountain ...
Kampot
We arrived in Kampot in the middle of the day and like most of the time, getting off of the bus we were immediately harassed by tuk tuk drivers and guesthouse owners. There was one guest house that had pictures and said that they would give us a free ride ...
Preparation for the Canoe
We went with Mick to Kampot. We arrived by night and we slept in a payote just above the ...
I do like to be beside the seaside
We popped down to the beach for a few days for a bit of a holiday. This whole travelling really does take it out of you. I mean there's the pints to drink, the sights to look at, the sleeping to do. It's non-stop. Sihnouk Ville is about 4 hours from ...
Insights From Kampot: the most joyous perspective
Always look for the most joyous perspective of the current moment. Reality is multidimensional and holographic so for every single moment, every interaction, any conflict there is a perspective that can see the current moment as ...
2nd day of canoe
At 6h30 AM, we woke up very fresh from our good night. We ate banana ( a lot of them have been crashed the day before in the rapids) and some kind of rice blowned in present as cookies with the taste of 'smaks'. We take the Canoe to the river under the ...
The World's Best Pepper is best with Fresh Crab!
From Phnom Penh we took a local bus to Kampot on the southern coast of Cambodia. We had been considering an island off the coast of Siknokville but were unable to reach the owners; we'd heard it was a slack place, but no response for a ...
Bokor Hill Station
... bumps,twists and turns we finally got to the top, and what an amazing sight. Looking from what used to be the King Of Cambodia's Palace, we could see the coast of Cambodia leading out into the Gulf of Thailand, quite breath taking!! After a wee break to ...
Gone to pot in Kampot... a pepper pot that is...
... in the region is not in the town planning or the buildings, but rather in the black pepper plantations outside the town. Even today, Kampot black pepper is considered among the finest in the world. So there! We had planned to stay only a few days, so as ...
Kampot
... of rented bicycles and found plenty of little cafes, bars and restaurants, often ex-pat owned and clearly the result of Cambodia's place as a prime backpacker destination. The own also seemed to be teeming with small NGOs and non-profit projects to ...
Boker Hill station - Elephant Ranges
We booked ourselves on a day trip up into the Elephant ranges to see the ghost town that used to be Boker Hill Station. It was built in the early 1920's by the wealthy French colonials wanting a secluded place to live. It was first deserted in the ...
Ghost Town at Bokor Hill Station
Bokor Hill Station was built by the French at the turn of the century to help French newcomers to Cambodia aclimatise. during the Khmer Rouge it was the site of fighting between them and the Vietnamese. Today it's a ghost town. Getting there is a ...
Goodmorning Cambodia!
... room is fantastic - about twice what I paid in Ha Tien but like a little resort with bamboo wall hangings and silk pillows. Cambodia is a little different to Viet Nam. The houses in the countryside are on cement stilts like North QLD, the roads are very ...
Kampot, Sud du Cambodge, 1er Mars 2008
... comme ca ou leur tranquillite est un vrai bonheur. Ou il n'y a rien a faire et on se sent bien. La tranquillite de Kampot donne tout simplement l'envie de se suicider. Alors c'est fortement probable que ca nous fasse cet effet-la parce qu'on vient de ...
Sacred caves and the sadness that is Cambodia
... a great big hug. For six dollars I got a room filled with ornate detail and a massive balcony. This was exceptional even for Cambodia. That night I went for a walk around the lively town, with a massive temple, a market that spilled onto the streets and ...
Flip , Flat , Flop
... I woke the following morning to the harsh reality of "the after a big night".Then we caught a bus to Kampot a small riverside town in southern Cambodia. I spent the day reading a troubling book written by an Australian who spent 13 years in a Thai prison. ...
Cave Exploring in Cambodia
Today was a day trip to some caves located just 15 miles or so outside of Kampot. Everyone of these trips start out the same way...on a moto and a dirt road that looks like it's going nowhere. What seems like out in the middle of nowhere are these ...
Not what I expected!
... . Basically it's going to be a mini Vegas in a middle of a national park. It's the Chinese fault, they are putting money into Cambodia, but they are putting it in the wrong areas I think. It will look stupid. After this we sat down and had lunch ...
Overnight in Kempot
Hello, I just returned from Kempot this afternoon. I met a really great girl named Anglee. She lives there and wanted to take me home to meet her family. No...No it's not like that. It took about 1.5 hours to get there in a taxi. The countryside is one ...
Kampot
... , der in der Naehe liegt. Unser Plan war es, einen Tag im Park zu verbringen und einen Tag die Countryside von Kampot unsicher zu machen. Kurz nach unserer Ankunft mussten wir aber feststellen, dass der Nationalpark mittlerweile auch der Mafia gehoert und ...
Kep Beach
... the 1960's. This is where the privileged class came to spend the week-ends. Kep is known to have the best crab in Cambodia. Nowadays the old villas are in ruin and it looks like the jungle surrounding them will swallow them back up. But this picturesque ...
City of Ghosts
It was around a four hour journey down to the sleepy town of Kampot. As usual as soon as I disembarked the bus I was greeted by half a dozen tuk tuk drivers all offering me the best deal on a guest house. Out of all the tuk tuk drivers I happen to ...
Flying Visit
... nothing but lie in bed and watch films for the day only leaving for lunch and tea. I think the main reason to go to Kampot is to do a day trip to the Bokor Hill Station which involves some jungle trekking, but our budget didn't really stretch to it and ...
Living in a ghost town
Decided to pop along the coast to a town called Kampot - famous for pepper. From here you can do a tour into the Bokor National Park and an abandoned french colonial stronghold in the hills that was also used by the Khmer Rouge to hide in. The park is ...