Friday, August 29, 2008

The information of Kampot Borkor Mountain

The located on the Bay of Thailand, within sight of Vietnam, lay Kampot and Kep towns,andBokor Mountain. Bokor Mountain is a popular destination because of the roughrideupthedirtrack to the top, and the view of Southern Cambodia and Vietnam, andthecooltemperatures; not to mention the abandoned casino and summer palace of theformerKing.(NoteBokor is partially closed for the next few years for construction).

Kampot is known as a quiet town on a river and the base for day trips up to Bokor Mountain. There's also much sightseeing to be done in Kampot. Kep, the former seaside recreation area before SihanoukVille, is a small, spread out town on the ocean, with views from the hillside of the Islands of Cambodia and Vietnam. The area is still not too touristy, but that is changing quickly. Plans are for new construction on Bokor Mountain, and a host of small hotels and restaurants are popping up in Kep and Kampot. Now is the perfect time to visit.

Borkor Mountain: Are both a trip and a destination. It's a long hard ride up the steep rocky trail to the top of the mountain. Most people either ride in the back of a pickup truck, or on a dirt bike made for rough roads.
At the top of Bokor Mountain, you have either a great view of Southern Cambodia, the ocean, and Vietnam, or you can see fog in every direction. The temperature at the top is much cooler than at the base of the mountain. At the top is a complex of buildings built around 80 years ago, and now weathered by years of abandonment. A casino, church, and buildings made for the King's holidays are scattered around.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

សោភ័ណ្ឌភាពក្នុងខេត្តសៀមរាប

Siem Reap
Khmer: ក្រុងសៀមរាប
Siem Reap City is the capital of Siem Reap Province, Cambodia.

Siem Reap has colonial and Chinese-style architecture in the Old French Quarter, and around the Old Market. In town, there are Apsara dance performances, craft shops, silk farms, rice-paddy countryside, fishing villages and a bird sanctuary near the Tonle Sap Lake.

Siem Reap today, being a popular tourist destination, has a large number of hotels and restaurants. Most smaller establishments are concentrated around the Old Market area, while more expensive hotels are located between Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport and the town along National Road 6. There are a variety of mid-range hotels and restaurants along Sivatha, and budget to mid-range hotels in the Phsar Leu area.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

KRONG KEP
From the turn off the century through the 1690s, Krong kep was Cambodia's premier beach town, Drawing weekend holiday makers to its picturesque shore and shorting Luxuri nowadays the villas are the ruins and Kep is known more for its Ocean front seafood stalls than for its beaches which are short and stony, offering a few picturesque slivers of sand including Kep beach near which most of the guesthouses and restaurants are clustered. for the moment at least Kep has a real out of the way feel to it Jungles mountains quits beaches and a limited but growing number of tourists service. Kep's current raison deter is fresh seafood, especially Crab.No trip to Kep is complete without at least one seaside pinic. The main road winds along the Oceanfront through the crab market and past small beaches and ritzy villas now crumbling in disrepair.

Monday, August 11, 2008

Ochheuteal and Serendipity Beaches

Ochheuteal Beach, known as ‘UNTAC Beach’ in the early 1990s, is the most popular beach in Sihanouk Ville. Ochheuteal is long, sandy and narrow, with ‘Serendipity Beach’ at the arcing northern end, a development project at the southern half, and a cluster of hotels, guesthouses and restaurants stretching along the the middle. On the beach, little shack-style seafood restaurants and bars line more than a kilometer of the sand’s edge from ‘Serendipity Beach’ to the development project. A few, such as Chiva Shack

Chaimoy and Bar Ru, are open into the late night and throw regular beach parties and BBQ’s The Ochheuteal area has a good selection of beach venues ranging from mid-range hotels through budget guesthouses, most along the three roads that run parallel to the beach.

The mid-section of Ochheuteal Beach is the busiest in Sihanouk Ville next to Serendipity, offering a pretty even mix of mid-range and budget hotels and guesthouses. Golden Sand and the Seaside Hotel are two of the best hotels in this area. Holiday Hotel and Orchidee Guesthouses are old favorites of many. Bungalows and guesthouses in the mid-Ochheuteal area also include the affordable Sbov Meas Guesthouse, New Christmas Guesthouse, GST Guesthouse and the stylish DevaRaja Villa. Toward the other end of the beach, the Markara guesthouses and the Jasmine Hotel all offer affordable fan and a/c rooms. In the early evening, several roadside BBQ restaurants set up along 23 Tola Road a block off of the beach near the Holiday Hotel, offering fresh seafood skewers, grilled meats, poultry and lots more. Angelo’s is getting particularly good reviews from customers.


Sunday, August 10, 2008

Sihanoukville: Beaches

Sihanoukville town sits in the center of a small peninsula that juts into the warm waters of the Gulf of Thailand. Several fine white sand beaches, easily accessible from the town, line the coast around the peninsula. All of the main beaches are lined with little beach bars and restaurants offering cold drinks, beach umbrellas and chairs, seafood BBQ, evening parties, water sports and more.

Sokha Beach

Occupying all of Sokha Beach, the Sokha Beach Resort offers luxury accommodation, restaurants, bars, water sports, and lots more. Sokha Beach is open to the general public as well as guests of the resort. Sokha is a beautiful beach, about one kilometer long crescent of sand and comparatively wide so that there is plenty of sand left during high tide. The fine white sand is perfectly groomed these days, but the beach is fairly quiet by comparison to nearby Ochheuteal and Serendipity. There are no little seafood shacks on Sokha like the other beaches but a series of grass umbrellas, gazebos and beach bars/restaurants run by the Sokha Beach Resort.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Monday, August 4, 2008

Kampot and Kep



Set with picture perfection near the base of the Elephant Mountains on the Kampong Bay River, the Provincial Capital of Kampot City is of quite a different character than the much more heavily touristed beach town of Sihanouk ville. Quite lanes, classic French coconial and Chinese architecture as well as few tourist all serve to lend Kampot a quant, welcoming small town ambiance. Visitors come to Kampot for a test of the provincial Cambodia, the relaxed atmosphere, and to use Kampot as a base or a stepping stone to the Bokor Hill Station, the nearny beaches and islands of Kep and the rest of southest-tern of Cambodia. For those interested in charitable, community and volunteer work, Kampot offers several opportunities, some with NGOs and other organization doing thing such as teaching English, assistant with disabled people, reconstruction project. Come the end of the day in Kampot the place to be is one of the little riverside café and pubs overlooking the Kampong Bay River-relaxing curbside over a glass of wines and watching the sun slowly set behind the elephant Mountains. Kampot maybe approached directly from Sihanouk ville, Phnom penh and from Viet nam Via the Prek chak and Phnom den international border Crossing.