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Jan 16, 2009 - Kampot
Bonjour les amis, Pas de photos disponible pour le moment de Sihanoukville, un virus s'est introduit sur notre memory card, les photos ne sont pas perdus, mais les antivirus des cybercafes en Asie ne sont pas au top . Kampot ne se trouve pas tres loin de la cote Cambodgienne, petite bourgade sans interet. ... La campagne des alentours est magnifique, nous visitons une plantation de poivre, des "salt Fields" (j'oublie mon francais parfois), des grottes ou les Khmers rouge se cachaient pendant la guerre et flannons le reste de la journee au bord de la riviere.Bonjour les amis, Pas de photos disponible pour le moment de Sihanoukville, un virus s'est introduit sur notre memory card, les photos ne sont pas perdus, mais les antivirus des cybercafes en Asie ne sont pas au top . Kampot ne se trouve pas tres loin de la cote Cambodgienne, petite bourgade sans interet. ... La campagne des alentours est magnifique, nous visitons une plantation de poivre, des "salt Fields" (j'oublie mon francais parfois), des grottes ou les Khmers rouge se cachaient pendant la guerre et flannons le reste de la journee au bord de la riviere....
Jump to full entryOct 27, 2008 - Kampot & Kep
Our 3 hour journey to Kampot turned out to take 6 (tho the journey was beautiful), so we arrived in the dark - and it's very dark here cos there're no street lights (no electricity at all quite often). ... Kampot is an old colonial river town, and Kep is a quiet seaside town that was popular with rich holiday makers before the Khmer Rouge, and is now regenerating. ... We'd gone planning to do a trek there, but it wasn't going that day, so instead we hired a moto driver to take us to visit some local caves and a pepper farm (Kampot pepper was world-famous before the Khmer Rouge apparently) and deliver us back to Kampot (by 'hired' we mean we let him talk us into it - he also talked us into buying him lunch, not sure how tho). ...
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Jul 13, 2008 - Episode 12: A River Runs Through It
Day 39: Kampot is a small town, near the south coast of Cambodia. ... Really quite quiet, the hostels reflecting the outdoor feeling of hostels in australia.Day 39: Kampot is a small town, near the south coast of Cambodia. ... Really quite quiet, the hostels reflecting the outdoor feeling of hostels in australia....
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Nov 28, 2007 - Sihoukanville
Sihanoukville is one of those little beach towns with soft white sand that sucks you in like quicksand and doesn't want to let go. The first stop was Kampot, where I traveled to with a Vietmanese-Canadian guy I met in Sihanoukville. ... We drove down this road next to the river in Kampot to look for a guesthouse, and after we decided we didn't like it we came back down the same road about 10 minutes later. ... Our taxi came upon a big truck that was stopped in the middle of the road.Sihanoukville is one of those little beach towns with soft white sand that sucks you in like quicksand and doesn't want to let go. The first stop was Kampot, where I traveled to with a Vietmanese-Canadian guy I met in Sihanoukville. ... We drove down this road next to the river in Kampot to look for a guesthouse, and after we decided we didn't like it we came back down the same road about 10 minutes later. ... Our taxi came upon a big truck that was stopped in the middle of the road....
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Jan 19, 2007 - Phnom Penh - Kampot
De bus zou om half acht vertrekken van PP naar Kampot. ... In Kampot aangekomen besloten we te lopen want het was maar een klein stukje naar het guesthouse. ... Bokor Hill is een heuvel naast Kampot waar het paleis van de oude koning Shianouk stond. ...
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Jul 22, 2006 - Kampot
Polo and I decided to head over to the sleepy town on Kampot for a bit of a vacation from Phnom Penh's madness. ... We were wanting to spend the least amount of money possible so when we arrived we went straight to Polo's distant distant relatives to try and possibly acquire a free moto for the day.Polo and I decided to head over to the sleepy town on Kampot for a bit of a vacation from Phnom Penh's madness. ... We were wanting to spend the least amount of money possible so when we arrived we went straight to Polo's distant distant relatives to try and possibly acquire a free moto for the day....
Jump to full entryJul 19, 2006 - Kampot, Cambodia
To Kampot for 2 days q. ... I ordered a taxi that tried to put 7 of us and all our bags and a guitar into one small 4 door car.To Kampot for 2 days q. ... I ordered a taxi that tried to put 7 of us and all our bags and a guitar into one small 4 door car....
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Jun 30, 2006 - Kampot and the Bokor Hill Ghost Town
Up and left Sihanoukville and headed for kampot. ... Couldn't find Russell (who I was supposed to be going with), so left him to it and went off to the bus station to try get a shared cab as there were no buses going to kampot. ... Pretty much as soon as I got to kampot it started to rain and didn't really stop until I left. ...
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May 9, 2006 - Kampot
Having spent far longer than we'd planned in Sihanuk's Ville, we shared a taxi with a fellow traveller we'd met during a slitely inebriated night in our hostel bar, over to Kampot. ... While Kampot itself isn't the most interesting, it works nicely as a base to visit both the ghost town of Bokor, and the seaside town of Kep. ... On our second day in Kampot, we hired mopeds for 2 pounds a day to drive over to Kep, pretty much solely to enjoy the fab seafood it has available. ...
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Apr 26, 2006 - Kampot & Kep
From Sihanoukville I made my way along the coast (in a 'share taxi' - in which they managed to squeeze 6 plus driver in a regular car) to the pretty town of Kampot, which sits on the river. ... We then finished the day by catching a boat along the river (a much more pleasant way to travel) and arrived in Kampot as the sun set. ... Whilst in Kampot I also decided to test my motoring skills again and hired a motorcycle for a day and drove out to Kep and then onto Kampong Trach near the Vietnamese border (a round trip of about 120km). ... Journey distance from Sihanoukville to Kampot (including round ...
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Apr 12, 2006 - Bokor National Park
After reading about the history of Bokor National Park, I couldn't help but rent a motorbike and head up for a few days.After reading about the history of Bokor National Park, I couldn't help but rent a motorbike and head up for a few days....
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Apr 6, 2006 - Kampot
We arranged to get a Taxi to the next town Kampot, with Allan an American guy we met diving. ... It took about 2 and a half hours to do the 110 km trip to Kampot. ... Kampot is a small town on the river. ... It is the people you meet travelling that make it interesting! We finished up the day with fantastic ribs at the 'the rusty keyhole' essential dining for anyone visiting Kampot! ...
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