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Cambodia Day Trip Sre Ambel Koh Kong

Sre Ambel is a excellent Koh Kong day trip destination. This small village at the road to Phnom Penh has a real hidden gem in the hills behind. Accessible only by motorbike or walking a great destination for a dirt bike tour.

The best is to take the Phnom Penh bus which starts in the morning in Koh Kong City and get off at the village and have a look around to find someone with a bike who is willing to do the ride. They will ask around $ 20,- and if its not more no negotiation is needed since the trip is really quite difficult to make, means they earn their money.

After leaving the main road the journey is over a hard paved red earth road for a couple of kilometer. After a while the road ends and a narrow dirt trek opens. Its very dusty and dry riverbeds must be crossed some of them have two tree trunks from one side to the other it needs some balance

 capability to get the bike over it, check the Koh Kong Map below for orientation.

There are some rivers around still holding water

and as closer the trek gets to the hills the more narrow it gets. After a while we had to leave the bike and start walking. Its a steep ascending for about one hour and its hot, sweat and needs a good condition, don't start this day trip with slippers it will give additional problems at this dirt treks lots of small and sharp stones paving the road. Broken bamboo stems are beside the trek razorblade sharp imagine what happen when you slip and fall into them, the danger is in the detail. After a while there is thunder in

the air, a good motivation to walk the dirt trek faster until the high waterfall can be spotted at the left. Looks real great, the height is around 60 meters and we approach the fall from the top, there is a basin at the down end but not accessible unless doing some real rock climbing but since this is a very remote area it's not worth to take the risk of an accident and its not needed anyway since the falls are very good visible, real great nature.

Having a look around the Peal Rong Waterfall

and sitting down for a while we trek back, this day trip is recommended to anyone who is at Koh Kong for a few days and it should be done together with a local since it is very difficult to find the right destination.when several dirt roads are crossing and naturally there as sings etc. there is also nobody around to ask. No danger of mines is in this area.

Sre Ambel Pictures

When being back at Sre Ambel village just ask the guy he should stop a car for you there are always minibuses pick ups around and it needs to find one which id driving to Koh Kong. To overcome hanging around to long, just stop one of the passing cars not the ones which are parked at the road. Take a cap and a shirt with long sleeves otherwise a bad sunburn is for sure. The ideal vehicle for this trek would be a dirt bike. Since we made the trip almost at the end of the dry season in April there is not as much water left to thunder down, read more.

Peal Rong Waterfall Sre Ambel Koh Kong
Cambodia day trip Sre Ambel, Peal Rong Waterfall, Cardamon Mountains
 
 
 
 
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