We left the Rabbit Island early due to Jon panicking about his foot, as soon as we arrived on the main land we headed to the local Hospital which looked fairly empty and deserted but we managed to find a doctor who spoke little English and only upon leaving did we discovered he spoke fluent french. He was kind to us and sat Jon down on an old sc...

we arrived in kep a day early (because i didn't want to spend any more time in battambang), and since our hotel room was not ready, we spent our first night in the hotel's villa. i think i've gotten a little ahead of myself. I was really looking forward to this part of cambodia which Frommers described as Cambodia's hidden gem. ALthough, when we...

Kep & Kampot Days 93-95 During the 60's Kep was intended to be a high class coastal resort to rival the increasingly gauche Sihanoukville, this plan never really got off the ground as other events intervened. The lack of a proper beach means that this place is only really starting to recover. There are still more derelict vilas than, occupie...

Forgotten the Khymer word for the island, but apparently it looks like a rabbit.

We managed to beat the taxi touts in Kampot who insist there is no bus to Kep and that you have to pay them 20 dollars to drive you the 20km, by finding out from Chris, a friendly Australian on yesterday's trip, that you can jump on the bus to Phnom Penh for 2 dollars and they will let you off at Kep. So at 7am, that's what we did and arrived in...

After driving approximately 1 hour to the Tinh Bien/Phnom Den land border we will bid farewell to our Vietnamese leader and cross into Cambodia where we will meet our Cambodian leader. Southern Cambodia experiences many floods in the wet season which can make driving slow. The drive takes us initially to the seaside fishing village & sandy b...

You may think we're crazy to take on Cambodia on a motorcycle by ourselves. Or you may just think we're crazy for taking on Cambodia at all. Point taken. In fact our decision to ride the 23 kilometers (from the colonial town of Kampot to the seaside town of Kep) was governed by the fact that we has been squeezed into so many tiny cars and cramme...

Surprisingly, after discovering rice wine the night before we did not have too bad a hangovers. We decided to hire a moped for half a day to see some of the beautiful sights of Kep. Our first port of call was the White Elephant caves which was about 8km out of Kep. A Buddhist monastery surrounded the rocks and we were led up to the caves by a nu...