Guest Houses Kampot

... at what passes as the bus station, we got our bearings and headed toward the backpackers area in town. Walking down a street lined with guest houses listed in the book, we had our pick and finally settled on the cheapest room we came across, at Blissful. ...

... bus which made me wonder again where everyone else is. There was the usual tuk tuk scrum at the bus stop but I know the guest houses were all close so lied about having one booked and moved on. Kampot is by the river with ageing French architecture, ...

... shocking as Kampot is the size of a postage stamp) so we rented bikes and headed out in search of two small guest-houses with a well-known reputation.  Les Mangieurs - where we rented kayaks and explored the river (after inavertantly wandering into ...

... only mean one thing; western owned and run. We weren't really keen on lining foreigner's pockets, although we have done so at a few guest houses), so when the journey down the pot holed dirt road went on forever, we were only too happy to stop at a small ...

Leaving paradise behind we headed to Kampot, a small sleepy town east along the coast - on the first day we hired bikes and got aquainted with our surroundings! Then we caught a tuk tuk to visit nearby Kep - on the way we stopped at a cave...we had to ...

... After uni, Dan went travelling, loved Cambodia and moved out here. He ran a bar for a while before opening the Magic Sponge Guest house in Kampot. When we arrived we were very impressed... The building itself is an old villa, which was a bank for a while ...

... check out the guesthouse they’re setting up and hear about Tim’s amazing charity projects around Kampot where he uses donated funds to build houses for people in need together with people from the villages. It’s really a great project ...

... the Crab Market where you can buy fresh seafood by the kilo for crazy low prices. Lunch was cracking. They have these picnic houses, which are really just a raised floor and a roof, which hammocks hanging on three sides. So you sit in your hammock ...

... Station was an opulent refuge from the jungle and a showpiece of the French Colonials. There was a large stone church, school houses, a large hotel and restaurant, pepper plantation, gardens and views of the valley and the ocean. The crown jewels are a ...

... on the aforementioned sunset cruise. This was a pleasant little outing on the river where on the banks were some intersting looking guest houses on the waterfront and a short distance away from town which looked well worth the effort to look up the ...

... station which at one time had a population of 10,000 when the French were still here. I joined a group of foreigners from other guest houses in town, accompanied by a local guide, and we headed up the steep and extremely rough road in an SUV. The hill ...

... imported across the bay, 2 shops and a couple of street stalls and then just the street several kilometres long where all the hotels and guest-houses seem to be.  So was set off via a hotel where you can get some cash and got chatting to an English ...

We arrived in Kampot on the southern coast of Cambodia on Friday afternoon.  It was raining, and the first 3 guest houses we looked into were booked, but we found a nice room across the street.  We went to the popular guest house for a beer, ...

Kampot was not what we expecting at all its on the banks of the river and I was expecting a quaint little town with guest houses and restaurants right on the river but they are not they are set back across the road. We stayed away from the river ...

... , which was a blessing as the minibus wasn't very spacious. In a little over 90 minutes we were dropped off outside a number of guest houses near the bus station, one of which was a place called Blissful that had dorm beds for $2. This has to be one of ...

... that he gave me a good price.  Rabbit Island is where you go if you want real beaches.  With 3/4 beach bungalow guest houses and a local fishing population It's not deserted but it is hardly developed.  I decide to earn some ...

... pick me up and take me to the bus stop with the rest of them so I could catch the connecting transport to my next destination of Kampot. Luckily, three others were travelling there from Chi Phat too so I had help with my bag - I just had to concentrate on ...

My final 6 nights were spent in the cosy little town of Kampot, 2 hours drive between Sihanoukville and the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.  As such it means that the people who end up here are those able to break away from Sihanoukville's grasp for want of ...