Popular bathing spot - littered beyond belief.

Break for the border - Koh Kong

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June 12th 2007
We got our motorcycle taxis 5 km north to catch the noon boat to Koh Kong from the quayside which was a lined with wooden fisherman's families huts on stilts where the wave of garbage below ebbed and flowed with the tides. Not the nicest part of town; only then did I realise that they must have went to some lengths to keep the tourist beaches as clean as they were, although I had never seen anyon ... read more

Asia » Cambodia » West » Kaôh Kong

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Most Cambodians consider themselves to be Khmers, whose Angkor Empire extended over much of Southeast Asia and reached its zenith between the 10th and 13th centuries. Subsequently, attacks by the Thai and Cham (from present-day Vietnam) weakened the ... ... read more