Kep
Travel Blogs from Kep, Cambodia
So good to be back in heaven
... motorbike once before (and we all know how that turned out), I actually did my motorbike course and licence a week before I left for Cambodia and I was eager to get out and practice a little and build my confidence up. It's an auto step through, so ...
Passeio na praia
Hoje fui para a pseudo-rodoviaria comprar uma passagem pra Kep, ali pertinho. O onibus demorou, mas chegou. Desembarcando por la o clima era meio estranho, pouca gente, alguns turistas cambojanos, estabelecimentos fechados ou as moscas. Kep tem uma ...
Rabbit Island
What a great night of sleep. Its the first place without air conditioning, but with the fans and given the closeness to the coast it was excellent. Also no disco music from Alaska Nightclub (read Kampot Diaries) Today we spent all day relaxing at rabbit ...
Crabtastic
... the jetty and a glass of wine in the very fancy french bar- we could have been in Nice! Very easy to forget you are in Cambodia when you come across places like that. The next day I popped to 'Rabbit Island' which was very very quiet but beautiful, and ...
Day 277: Kep
... 4 English teachers we met on a bus to Kep a couple days ago also arrived at Rabbit island and they recommended a place they stayed in Kep so we asked our tuk-tuk driver to take us to Tree Top Bungalows. They are a little bit away from town but have ...
Back to the mainland!
... gross and lots of plastic and shit laying around. But the swimming pool in the middle - beautiful! The food- beautiful! Leigh had a kep burger and I had a crepe with bacon, cream, onion and cheese. I haven't had anything with cream in ages raaaa! I get ...
Christmas by the sea
... Kep-de-sur, armed with our Christmas wine and cheese! This is a beautiful, quiet coastal town that was known as the riviera of Cambodia during the hay day of the French colonists. We had booked a little bit of luxary in the form of a $40 a night ...
Kep the faith
... up to Siem Reap for the templefest that is Angkor Wat. Sorry I haven't posted any pictures so far - internet connections in Cambodia are geologically slow and unpredictable. Things might be better up in Siem so I'll post some from there if I can. ...
Honey, I Have Crabs
... have been or are being built, and a couple of the villas look like they are being renovated. Just adjacent to Kep Beach, we encountered a large white statue of a naked woman. Actually, she wasn't completely naked; she had ...
Koh Chang
... at 2 in the afternoon taking a ferry over to the mainland were we met one of our friends who had been on a visa run into Cambodia, after a taxi and another ferry we were in Koh Chang. We got a taxi with a Thai who seemed to know nothing about the Island ...
Diving
Today it was looking rough weather wise. It started raining about 7:30 which was great as I have a pick-up for diving at 8am. Again the 40 minute drive down to the southern port, and on to the boat. It stopped raining as the boat pulled ...
BALADE EN MOTO
Bonjouratous, Diner au Bistrot, un petit resto pas loin de la plage ou ca parle un peu francais. Un peu de tout au menu, des trucs type francais aussi, a des prix vietnamiens. Pour moi, un steak de thon marine au citron excellent, une Saigon Beer et un ...
Koh Tansay (Rabbit Island)
Today I got a boat out to Koh Tonsay or Rabbit Island. I took a small boat (long boat) out about 30 minutes to the island. The waves caused the boat to sway greatly. It wasn't that you could get sick you were too busy holding on so ...
This place does not deserve a title.
You may as well re-read the entry for Kampot, but just change the place name to Kep. Only difference was though - it was worse. The highlight was that we had a disatorous meal involving crab, and we ate in the same restaurant for all 3 meals. It was the ...
Paradiso Found...
JP: First off apologies for the long silence, the power on the island of Phu Quoc in Vietnam was sketchy at best - it seemed everytime that we sat down to start a blog the power would go out. We took that as a sign from a higher power that we ...
Rabbit Island
... me. I have seen these bastards rip through kittens pups and even other dogs in packs. So one very important rule for visiting Cambodia. Never trust a Khmer dog!! Rabbit Island A half hour boat trip from coastal town Kep, I landed on the sands of rabbit ...
Gastronomie cambodgienne
L'année passée, nous avions uniquement testé le boeuf aux fourmis rouges, ce qui était, de mon point de vue, déjà un bel effort d'adaptation aux coutumes locales. Cette année, nous avons varié les plaisirs et dégusté toute une série de ...
Kep!
... my bus to the seaside town of Kep. I had heard mixed feelings of this formerly grand seaside resort but I wanted to see more of Cambodia’s coast and so I decided to give it a go anyway. On the bus there I met an Australian girl called Kerri-Lee who ...
Hillside Retreat
... mosquito net and not the best roof. We were manly persuaded by the lovely pool, view and chilled out atmosphere. We stayed in kep lodge which borders the national park and has a lovely little bar area with fairy lights, ambient music and a pool table. ...
Visit to Rabbit Island
On Friday took a day trip to the countryside and Rabbit island, just four of us - two dutch girls and a Oz girl, I felt like Granddad taking the kids to Blackpool. It was an enjoyable day. Leaving on Monday going back to Phnon Penh to get a visa ...
Rosie hits double digits and birthday surprise
... heading back to KL after a final dip in pool and a leisurely breakfast. We were moving on nearby to an eco-resort in the hills around Kep. It was a bumpity ride in a tuk tuk and we were glad to be there after a 20 minute journey walking up the rest of the ...
Hopping over to Koh Tonsay (Rabbit island)
... island too. He arranged to get us all across to Rabbit Island a short-ish boat ride away located about 4.5 Kilometers southwest of Kep. There are beautiful white sand beaches and the sea here is shallow and has a long slope, making Koh Tonsay ...
Relaxation in Kep (Not Too Far From Toilet!)
... for this journey, just the driver. My tummy was still dodgy, and the bumpy journey was a huge challenge! Kep is a small fishing port in the south of Cambodia. It is near Kampot, which is famous for its pepper. There are loads of pepper plantations round ...
Hello Coast!
Hoorah! We have finally been to the coast on our trip! What a wonderful place we chose! Kep is a small fishing town with a sweet little beach and a few restaurants specializing in crab. We stayed here one night before we set off on our adventure across ...
Crab Market
... hut. I could have spent hours looking out onto the river here but unfortunately our Tuk-Tuk arrived to take up to the crab market in Kep. It took over an hour in the Tuk-Tuk but it was a beautiful ride and we got dropped outside the amarket. The market ...
travel
... men carrying the cows legs!!! Even some of the food stalls turned Alistair's stomach. Next we decided to leave Cambodia and travel into Laos in a minivan full to bursting. It was the easiest boarder crossing and with no ...

