We left sihanoukville at about 10am as we didn't want to get up early and get the bus, so we decided to get a share taxi, we didn't mind the idea of this as it was abit cheaper anyway. what we didn't quite realise was how cramped it was going to be. they told us that it would be a squeeze but when it showed up we thought ok, simple taxi. then we...

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 picture perfection! Quiet lanes, beautiful trees and very few tourist help make Kempot feel ve...

So we got up early and headed for the VN embassy to get Becky's tourist visa...hers was done incorrectly before. This was surprisingly easy. It only took 30 mins. (So if you are traveling it is easy to get in Sihanoukville) Afterwords, we headed to the find a share taxi. After bargaining down we got the ride for $4 each. We got in a car and real...

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 picture after another. You can see this wonderful view of Bokor Mountain with the rain clouds ...

We liked Kampot immediately, probably because it still hasn't been subjected to the full tourist town makeover. It's a small peaceful town with big, wide dusty streets and little traffic. Running along the edge of the town is a beautiful, big river across which is a small village built on stilts at the waters edge. Behind the village you can see...

After our early morning flight arrived at Phnom Penh the visa was easy just a few forms and $1 if you don't have a passport photo. We got a taxi to our guest house that we'd been recommended by my friend that lives in Cambodia, on the way the driver was trying to explain that its pretty out the way and not very touristy. Its called The Boddhi Tr...

I did not mean to come here. Originally, the plan was "to do" Cambodia in two weeks and then continue to Vietnam. I had no idea I'd fall in love with Phnom Penh and stay there for a month. I had no idea that this trip to Kampot (a tiny town with beautifully dilapidated French colonial buildings), which was supposed to be a weekend getaway, will ...

Set off at 8.30 for the Bokor National Park and abandend hill station. There were two no shows for which they wanted to increase the price of the trip for the others. Unsuprisingly we all declined, that said the guide did say he was only asking and was still running the trip. That left six of us setting off in the back of a Nissan version of a T...

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 eyes of the whole family and we start again rowing. We could progress with the rising sun in t...

Spent two days in the small city of Kampot.On Wednesday I went to the Bokor Hill Station, an abandoned hill station with a big casino/hotel. There was so much fog that it was like a horror movie. We were wet, cold and riding on the back of pick up track but it was pretty fun!