Veranda Natural Resort Kep

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 got there, it seemed like any other fisherman's village (without the god aweful smell cambodia is famous for) with more garbage along the side of the...

It's been a long time since I was in Asia last (three years) and I don't think I had prepared myself for the sensory assault of arriving in a sweaty, dusty, filthy, crowded place. Central Market We got a taxi directly to the bus station to catch a bus to Kep, the seaside town we had booked accommodation in. The next bus left in a couple of hours, so we decided to kill time by wandering through the Central Market that was right next to the Phnom Penh Sorya Bus Station. We started in the fashio...

Armchair and laptop planning may seem like a good idea at the time, but generally your body will tell you something else that is far more important. Kep Downtime Arriving in Kep after the horror bus trip that seemed to drag on for years and years, my body just shut down and said "You're on holiday, there is a hammock outside your bungalow and you need to finish that book." Who am I to argue with my being? Kep is apparently quite famous for crab. It also has a nude statue of a fisherman's wife...

Back to PP once more (it's beginning to feel like 'home') but not for long. After a few days back in the city, you find yourself needing wide open spaces again, so three of us headed up to Mondulkiri (towards the Northeast). The journey there is most definitely my all time worst journey ever. Four of us were crammed into the back seat of a pick up truck, knees under our chins for 8 hours. Excrutiatingly painful and very claustrophobic. I sort of lost my sense of humour for a while. But it was...

This is an absolutely perfect spot to see the jungle of Cambodia. Try a stay at The Nature Lodge where Sheery and her spouse is a perfect hosting couple

Hi everyone, hope you are all well. Although the plan was to already be in Vietnam by now, due to Chinese New Year and not being able to get a visa, Danny and I have stayed in Cambodia for an extra week. Don't really mind as Cambodia has been great. While finding this out in the tour place we spied a poster for 'Nature Lodge' a guest house in Mondulkiri (East Cambodia) with cheap bungalows, elephant trekking, meditation and swimming. So great was the poster we booked a bus trip on the spot. A...

In a country of awful roads, the one from Phnom Penh to Mondulkiri has to be the worst. Not too bad as far as Snoul, but beyond there it degenerated into more of a dirt track than a road, to the point where I doubted the knackered, typically Cambodian bus was going to make it up some of the slopes. The final 120km took a gruelling 5 hours, the whole journey just less than 11. Not a fun day. Fortunately, Mondulkiri more than justified the pain of getting there. Although much of the area has be...