Blogs from Kampot, South, Cambodia, Asia - page 16

Hello. At the moment I am in Cambodia! It is an.....'interesting experience'. After leaving Perth I flew to Melbourne, wich should have taken me 3 hours instead of 12. We were trapped in the plane for about 6 hours without food. After spending a 1.5 day in Melbourne I went to Sydney where I took the plane straight to Singapore! I expected a very clean, boring city without a soul, but I got a very clean, interesting, asian city! I really like it, to my own surprise! I myself stayed in Little india. It is crazy, it is really like India, but somewhere else. I mean, all the indians have the exact same look on their face when they see a white girl, they have the exect same clothes (dark blue trousers and white shirt) and ... read more

...dove la gente (fortunatamente) non veste piu' di nero. E dopo questa doverosa citazione, dopo la grande citta'e le famose rovine, dopo il cuore dell' Asia con le sue citta' piu' lontane dai mari, eccomi giunto finalmente sulle rive del Golfo di Thailandia, con le sue acque azzurre, le spiaggie bianche e isole piu' o meno sperdute. Da Phnom Pehn prendo uno sgangherato autobus diretto a Kep, quella che fu un tempo la principale meta turistica cambogiana, costruita dai francesi come centro balneare ed arricchita con lussuose ville ed un lungomare lampionato che scorre ai piedi della collina per ben 6 chilometri. Di tutti i suoi edifici storici, dopo una serie impressionante di guerre devastanti, rimane ben poco: solo scheletri anneriti di antiche sfarzose abitazioni ed ancora piu' numerose mura di cinta, a racchiudere grandi spazi ... read more

Yet another eventful bus journey took me to Kampot, which is on the Southern coast of Cambodia. Instead of passing time by playing peekabo with Cambodian children on the bus, I spent it talking to an Australian man in his fifties. He had done a lot of travelling throughout his life and had the most amazing stories from the time he travelled through the Middle East and India back in the 1970s. It then turned out he'd been coming to Cambodia every year for the last decade, but had only ever been to Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Sihanoukville. He is a sex tourist, and even has Cambodian baby as a trophy for his 'visits'. The sex industry in Cambodia is huge here and hideously blatant. Men parade around with girls not even a day over ... read more

12/10/07 Niektorym z was moze sie wydawac , ze jestem na wakacjach. Ale tak nie jest. Po prostu, czytajac cale dnie o ludobojstwei i zbrodniach przeciwko ludzkosci, czasami czlowiek musi sie odstresowaac. I wlasnie dlatego przyjechalismy do Kampot (nad morzem, na poludniu). W srode jeszcze byla praca, zakonczona drinkami w QBar - niesamowite miejsce - bylismy jedynymi klientami przez godzine (happy hour) poki nie przyszlo 3 starcyh Khmerow. W QBar otworzyli wlasnie 'white room' i to byla przyczyna, dla ktorej sie tam znalezlismy - wielikie - na jakies 15 metrow biale lozko na samym wejsciu. Zastanawialismy sie, czy nie daloby sie zabrac z niego poscieli, bo nam nie udalo sie jej jeszcze kupic. Moze w weekend white room cieszy sie wiekszym powodzeniem, ale w srode bylismy tam tylko w 4 osoby, rozwaleni na tym bialym lozu. ... read more

There's not really a great deal to do in Kampot, it consists of pretty much a single road, however, a few kilometers up the road was the entrance to the Bakor National Park. From what I could gater, this national park, located up in the mountains consisted of some an old abandoned village, once used by the Khamer Rouge, some waterfalls and great views, so it sounded like it could be worth visiting, in addition, it was apparently only accessible by four wheel drive car/truck or motorbike, so that sounded fun already. I took a day pack and set off at around 9am. A few kilometers down the road at the foot of the mountain was the entrance to the National Park and when I arrived I met three Danish guys who were also on 250cc ... read more