Destination Cambodia

Kampot

The sleepy town of Kampot with a population of about 40,000 inhabitants is among others very famous for its beautiful French colonial architecture and is now slowly awakening. Furthermore the Kampot region is well-known for the Kampot Pepper which has been renowned for decades as one of the best peppers in the world and still today being grown on pepper farms in the area.

Kampot is easily reachable by bus or car as the national highways have been renewed or totally been rebuilt. Close to the “ghost town” of Kep, the beautiful Bokor National Park which is still today a hideaway for endangered species like elephants and tigers, and big cave systems which can be explored, Kampot offers a wide range of natural tourist attractions.

Bokor National Park

The Bokor National Park is one of the countries largest protected area and a hideaway for endangered species. Main tourist attractions are an abandoned French hill station, which is a collection of buildings constructed by the French authorities in the early 1920s. Bokor Mountain offers a spectacular view of the coast, cooler weather. The national park is heavily jungled and jungle trekking or a trip to the two-tired Popokvil Waterfalls, allowing the tourists to swim in the rainy season, can be arranged.

In 2008 Bokor Hill Station was closed for visitors as the construction of a large development project (casino, hotel complex, golf course etc.) begun. Until now the access to the Hill Station has been irregular.

Kampot Pepper farms

Everywhere in the Kampot province you will find the famous Kampot Pepper farms which are really worth a visit.

Caves near Kampot

There are several interesting limestone caves between Kampot and Kep, some adorned with exotic rock formations and almost all containing Buddhist shrines. For example the Caves of Phnom Chhnork, a pre Angkorian ruin set in a limsotone cave amongst stalagmites and stalactites