Blogs from Kampot, South, Cambodia, Asia - page 4

The hill outside Kampot was unremarkable. The man at my guesthouse told me local people went there to send out their wishes, but tourists didn’t bother visiting. It was just a rather ordinary place. But that was what I wanted during my final few days in Cambodia. Mostly, I wanted a place with no other tourists. The motor scooter sputtered up the rough asphalt path, past a few houses where people and dogs lounged about. After a short climb we stopped in an area that appeared to be under construction. Piles of wood, metal, gravel, and dirt were strewn about. A low building with a shiny floor housed a temple. Nearby, odd concrete pillars jutted into the sky. The strangest structure was a pile of metal, geometric interlocking pieces that laid atop one another, layer cake ... read more

Hi Everyone, Last day of the year!! We had a very chilled day. We went to Elli’s café for breakfast, which was a recommended café in the Kampot area. We had freshly squeezed fruit shakes (ginger and mango for Neil and I had orange juice), then I had eggs benedict and Neil had scrambled eggs. We didn’t do much in the day, read our books mostly. In the evening we popped out for dinner, Neil had his favourite dumplings and noodles. We came back to the room to drink rum and coke and listen to music. Because we like different music we had our headphones on whilst getting ready and looking on the internet. A whatsapp came through from Neil saying ‘Will you marry me’ I automatically replied no, thinking he was messing around, so I ... read more

Hello Followers and blog readers and friends, So today is the move from Sihanoukville to Kampot, we have been dreaming about this for the last few days now!!! Vick is still bad with stomach bug and I still have a little flu but both much better for this journey, its only a 2 hour drive but is in a small mini bus with everyone crammed in, on the worst roads around (well not seen these Vietnamese roads yet). We checked out of the 'Everythang hostel' and felt miffed having to pay our high bill as it was a shit hole!!! We read a few of the reviews over the last week there on trip advisor and it was bad, people with ants in there rice, slugs in there salad, food poisoning (Vicky and others) plus people ... read more

Hello readers So, what we do about leaving the island, well sit back relax and I shall tell you :-) We had a look at the sea conditions and they looked calmer than when we arrived and the weather looked quite promising, so after some discussion Nd debate we decided to catch the 9am boat back to the mainland along with a few other people who were also,leaving at the same time and had experienced similar sea conditions to us when they arrived., This time Karo and I had bought plastic macs and I used mine to cover my big back pack, I had also found my rain mack but ended up using to cover my bag and day pack, as of course we got hit with waves over the bough again lol. The boat was ... read more

Sok sa bai? Ça y est, je me décide à quitter la capitale. J'en connais un peu plus sur l'histoire récente du Cambodge, ses traditions, sa culture, sa langue et je peux poursuivre sereinement ma découverte du pays. Direction le Sud et la plage. Tout du moins, le pensais-je. En effet, j'avais décidé de zapper Kep, petite station balnéaire créée par les Français du temps de leur présence et qui s'appelait initialement Kep-sur-Mer, pour me poser à Kampot, à une vingtaine de kilomètres de là. De mon camp de base je pourrai facilement rejoindre Kep le temps d'une journée car même si la ville à été détruite par les Khmers Rouges, il y reste quand même des choses à voir comme l'ancienne résidence du Roi Sihanouk ou son marché aux crabes et il paraît que les ... read more