Three Coastal Towns
August 8th 2008 Sihanoukville, Kampot, Kep: casinos, crumbling towns, and ghost resort. Kampot was the main centre on the Cambodian coast until Sihanoukville was founded in 1964. Now post-war reconstruction is focusing on this ugly place. Kampot is surprisingly unchanged; it's hardly received a facelift. All the buildings in Kep were gutted during the war, and it is still full of the shells of once-affluent
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