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Koh Kong
Beach and Cambodia Beaches.
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Paklong
beach is more or less
the nearest to the city is about 10km away from the city center. To
travel
there the best is just get a scooter for a day and have
a look. |
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The tuk tuk and bike taxi
driver are not very positive to go there since they
afraid of the army which has outposts and maybe there
are some mines when walking further into the wilderness.
This mines can be or not
nobody know if its real or rumor. I had a look around
and did some walking into the greenery behind the sand
and nothing happen. The beaches are absolute
pristine, no tourists, white sand, almost no littering,
the local people visit Cambodian beaches rather seldom, they get
to black to fast. Sometimes a few beach huts show the
existence of some people around, fisherman
offering to grill a fish for the foreigner, very
friendly and nice.
The white Cambodian
beaches are full with millions of shells which clearly
show that almost nobody ever came there. Islands are on
the horizon, a warm breeze run through, nice weather
it's a perfect picture, just a couple of kilometers off
the border to Thailand. |
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Further west is a
casino and it seems as they found substantial deposits
of oil not far out in the gulf, there is some quarreling
in which waters those deposits are.
Actually doing beach
hopping is a great day trip, take some drinks with you,
a fish could be bought from the fisherman but they have
rarely something which is safe for drink. Be very
careful with all hygienic issues since health care is
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Cambodia
is not
only a great tropical country with
marvelous monuments at Angkor and
elsewhere in the country it slowly
becomes a reasonable vacation
destination for playing in the sand and
the tropical waters around. Island life
is possible but it really needs a total
Robinson dedication since the
infrastructure is only rudimentary, but
this is exactly what many people want,
traveling as far away as possible no
need to be a hermit in a cave take a
beach cottage and catch some fish, if
you can’t catch them ask the fishermen
they are glad to sell one or several,
that’s fresh seafood, actually the catch
of the day, since they don’t have
refrigerators because no electricity its
always fresh.
are
always in the south of the country on
the west near Thailand, on the east near
Vietnam und in the center the top
Sihanoukville the top destination in the
country for fisheries, harbor, beaches
and more. There are real scenic places
people dream about for half of their
life until they get up and start travel
to this pristine destination, its easy
to reach, prices are low, hotels
and guest houses are quite ok and the
blend of natural and cultivated beauty
is still |
Cambodia beaches,
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Koh
Kong
day
trip,
Sihanoukville
beaches. |
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intact. There are
real attractive ocean beaches with white
sand and an untouched environment. There are pine trees and
palm trees showing idyllic scenes of a tropical
beauty. Since most people underestimate
the power of this tropical sun the
suggestion is wear some clothes
otherwise you got burned already the
first day and regret it for a week.
Especially when hiring a scooter or bike
don’t drive without totally covered with
some clothing. |
Cambodia beaches at Koh Kong,
Koh Kong Cambodia. |
Cambodia beaches are plenty,
but the
infrastructure is mostly lousy. At a
place such as Koh Kong are exactly the
beaches sun seekers in Europe and
elsewhere are searching for to travel
there. Koh Kong is somehow a peninsular
with lots of creeks opening the
countryside from the South China Sea
easily accessible with the boat and this
is real great tropical environ.
Some
tourists which come in from the Thai
border on a visa run trip have a very
good time since there are waterfalls,
beautiful rapids and a overwhelming
green scenery. This could be a real
hang-out for nature lavers.
Along the
creeks are cottages and bungalow cluster
in a remote setting far away from
everywhere, just the places to switch
off the upper region, enjoy and relax.
Usual waterborne activities are fishing
and snorkeling for scuba diving it needs
travel a bit further east to
Sihanoukville since there are no scuba
operations at Koh Kong.
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And no need to worry about cuisine, many
hotels offer French and Italian food
beside the usual Cambodian seafood and
these restaurants are real good, one of
the best is the Koh Kong City Hotel just
at the harbor, they have a excellent
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come here even from a
wider radius.
This is some kind of a
peaceful paradise to really have a good
time there is even a disco at down town,
actually there are several but only one
deserve to be called a disco. If you
want to have a look for ladies tell the tuk tuk guy to drive to the “Chicken
Farm” does it need any more explanation?
Weather
is usually
excellent, except during monsoon when the sky
opens the dam, the weather pattern is a bit
different to Thailand because here is the South
China Sea, in Thailand its more the Indian Ocean
which makes the weather. |
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Kong
beach,
Cambodia
beach,
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