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- Phnom Penh
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Kampot Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Kampot, Cambodia
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 ...
Catching Crabs
... headed back to Kampot, relieved that we had chosen a daytrip rather than going and spending the night there. Kampot is pretty well known for its pepper and rightly so! The stuff is tasty, especially mixed with the crabs from Kep ...
Biking Around
... a mountain street). May be it does not make sense to you, but after being continuously threatened by the SUV and trucks all over Cambodia (passing me with a heavy hand on the horn, at full speed, pretending me to disappear from the road) it was a specific ...
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 ...
Carn Hackeys wouldnt have a look in!
... in the front. Crazy two hours trip but at least the baby was too busy getting breastfed to cry!! Arrived safe and sound in Kampot which is a beautiful riverside town that always seems to be in slow motion. We arrived by chance at a cool guesthouse run by ...
New Look for Cambodia
... (not the correct spelling) said that only "gangsters" have mustashes. I miss it! Maybe I'll grow it back. Did you know that while in Cambodia I am one year older? They say you are 1 when you are born. So instead of being 48 years old. I am 49 and in May ...
Kamping in Kampot
... . Here in Cambodia most homes and businesses are open by design and most have a fan or two. The Footprint Cambodia Handbook calls Kampot "charming riverside town…” Frankly, “charming” is a bazar choice of attributes. Dusty, ...
I hate share taxis
... back to campot which was amazing as you went through wilderness as well as farmland. I've noticed there are alot more palm trees in cambodia than anyother country we've been to. The next day we decided to leave and booked a bus for the morning. However ...
Fog 2: Mist
The next stop on our itinerary was Bokor Hill Station, which required a tour from Kampot near the southern coast of Cambodia. The hill station was built by the French early in the 20th century and served as a holiday village - complete with hotels, ...
Peppery Kampot! Mari mari mari!
DAY 1. Today marks the end of East Cambodia as I venture south. A mini-van (or death taxi) from Kratie at 7am took us to PP by 12.30pm. Was supposed to catch the 12pm bus to Kampot, but of course caught the 2.30pm bus. Snacked on two local Kratie ...
Kampot..best known for its stinking Durian fruit!
... off the bus and found ourselves in the lovely Kampot. Kampot is best known in the lonely planet guidebook and history for 2 things....Kampot pepper (apparently the best in the world) and a huge spiky stinky fruit called 'Durian' that I am yet to try. We ...
Sihanookville to Phnom Penh...
... The cattle graze in it, the ducks are farmed on it and it is the main food staple. What a beautiful introducion to rural Cambodia. We were all silent as the tuk-tuk chugged along through the rice fields. Then there was Kep. Kep is ...
ha la mer, ca fais du bien!
Faut bien ce faire plaisir aussi donc me voilà parti pour le sud du Cambodge et c'est plus belle plages ! 4h de bus et me voilà arriver avec un israélien avec qui je partage ma chambre mais que j’ai perdu après 1h de visite commune… ...
"You got balls Bron? Well, you'd better find them"
... same old me. I’m just me with a cracking tan, a few extra scars and pounds sat in a guest house in Kampot listening to Henry Purcell’s beautiful music on the radio (which reminds me so much of my amazing mother), contemplating the ...
Kampot and the caves
... he gave them a dollar each for their help (probably enough to feed them and their family for a week!) I feel that Kampot is overselling their tourist attraction a bit, the caves were pretty rubbish! We also decided to support the local charities ...
Bokor Hill Station
... down the hill again. Highlight of the day was definitely the sunset boat ride back to the guest house. That felt like Cambodia for some reason - probably too many Vietnam war films when I was younger :) Our guesthouse is great - River View Guesthouse ...
Kampot
... saw a bridge, that was destroyed during the Khmer Rouge, and had been rebuilt using bits from about 5 different bridges. Kampot is also the Cambodia capital of the stinky fruit Durian, which they even have a huge roundabout in the middle of town, which ...
River Sunsets and abandoned colonial casinos
... naar Pnomh Penh, meer info en foto's binnen een weekje of zo. Saludos of Li San Hay of zoiets. AHORA ESTAMOS EN KAMPOT... YA ESTA BIEN DE PLAYA.... UN PUEBLECITO TIPICO POR SUS CASAS COLONIALES DE LOS FRANCESES (ESTAN HECHAS POLVO PERO EL GOBIERNO ...
Salt and Pepper
... things a bit... So instead, we zipped around the countryside in a tuk-tuk at around 25 km/hr getting our bottoms massaged by Cambodia's roads. Went to see one of the many salt fields along the coast where they bring in the sea water into shallow pools ...
dressing like a local
... bears, sheep, and other very distinctly sleepwear-ish patterns. Women young and old could be seen all over Sihanoukville and Kampot sporting this interesting fashion statement at all hours of the day and night, at work, riding around on their scooter, or ...
Ascending Bokor Hill
... made for a perfect retreat at the reasonable price of $20/night. Locals here seemed more friendly than anywhere else in Cambodia as many greeted us with "Hello, what's your name?" or "Hello, where you go?". A main attraction around Kampot is ...
Chill-Out time in Bodhi Villa
... 's been taken over by the weekend ex-pats. Our tip if you go – take insect repellent and avoid weekends ! There are lots of volunteer opportunities in Kampot which were very tempting, including teaching English, music and playing football with kids. ...
Of Monks and Monkeys
... into in weird spots three times in Siem Reap. He's now staying down the hall from me. There was an excellent sunset here in Kampot last night. Following the sunset, I ate some good Sri Lankan food and had a massage by a blind man. I think he said ...
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 ...