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- Phnom Penh
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- Riel (KHR)
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Kampot Slideshow
Kampot
Travel Blogs from Kampot, Cambodia
Phnom Penh Death Match
... was down for the count. I think somebody made a lot of money on that bet. I'm now shacked up in a backpacker dump in Kampot in southern Cambodia. I caught a morning share-taxi and got here by 11:30 am. My hotel of choice was booked full, so I took a ...
Tropical Paradise and the Big City!
... 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 ...
Kampot and beyond
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 ...
In a hurry
... , 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
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
... 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 ...
Kampot, Sud du Cambodge, 2 Mars 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 ...
Kampot
... 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 ...
Very Unproductive Day
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 ...
Paradise Stolen!
... you smiled at them their faces broke out into massive grins and they waved at us faster than the kids do! The people in Cambodia are definitely the smiliest and friendliest we've met so far. The next day spent a day relaxing around Kampot. We ...
Cambodian Haircut
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 ...
Misty memories (with credit to Team America)
... crashed into the mountains a few years ago and the roads (as previously noted) are dire. Despite this the richest man in Cambodia is developing a huge resort in the "National park" outside town. We found out that the company building the road for the new ...
Kampot
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 ...
Ghost Town
... 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 ...
Kam Pot
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 ...
Kampot and Kep
... keep them from resorting to muggings to make money). Curt then informed me that since it was illegal to drive a motorcycle in Cambodia without a Cambodian license (oops), he had only kept a small amount of money in his wallet for on-the-spot police ...
bicycling around town
... 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 ...
Cheese, Graffiti, Pepper and Durian
... where 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 ...
Apr 14, 2012
Phew Quoc
... 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, ...
Pepper and Property
... Penh in under 5 hours. However, our bus to Kampot left nearly 2 hours late so we didn't arrive until early evening. Kampot, and the nearby beachside town of Kep, are known for seafood, in particular crab, and locally grown peppercorns. It is a ...
Teaching english isn't as easy as it sounds!
... 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
... 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 ...
Rough and rugged but I like it!
... the distance. I spent most of the afternoon in the riverbank finishing my Millwall book and planning my last few places in Cambodia. Again it was a perfect place to watch yet another stunning sunset in Cambodia. I was lucky to get some great pictures ...
Ghost town
Today we went to visit an abandonned colonial city on top of a hill. It was a 3 hours very bumpy 4X4 ride. The road was so bumby that nobody could sit down. We were all standing up in the box. The town itself was quite interesting.We then had to go back ...
River Deep, Mountain High
... way, 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 ...
First day of the Canoe trip
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 ...
Happy New Year!
... , 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 ...
A Storm in Heaven
... 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 ...