Wandering Through the Wats of Phnom Penh

Nothing exceptional here, just a glimpse of life in a Wat.

Kep Road Trip

Kep, Cambodia is a sleepy (and I do mean sleepy) sea side town, three and a half hours from Phnom Penh by car. This is one of several long-weekend, get-away places I have enjoyed visiting time and again with friends and sometimes just by myself.

Preparation for Kep trips begin the day before with my multi-lingual driver, Phea, chasing a shopping list of healthy snacks, drinks and ice for the cooler. There is no such thing as, 'on-stop shopping' in Phnom Penh. To get everything on the Kep shopping list requires stops at several different stores including one of several French bakeries, German butchers and Chinese/Khmer grocers that cater to European, Australian and American tastes.

Once in Kep, I check into one of my two favorite accommodations.

www.knaibangchatt.com

www.veranda-resort.com

Both properties are, by Cambodian standards, ultra high-end ranging in price from USD$60-$150/night, depending on season and occupancy.

There are no corporate hotels or resorts in Kep. And that is just fine by me. Instead, Kep is made up of dozens of interesting and eclectic accommodations with a small smattering of fine restaurants and flimsy eateries run by both locals and expatriates from around the world. Shacks, sometimes rather precariously built in the gulf shallows, serve some of the most wonderfully seasoned wok crab available on this planet.

Not many pictures in this post. There are several earlier posts that cover Kep in more photographic detail.

Another person enjoying the pleasure of photographing the pending Kep sunset just like me from a different perspective.

In the middle is Phany (pronounced pohnee). Phany is my best friends girlfriend. Phany manages www.cambdialivingart.com.

Here is my friend Victoria walking her dog back from a trip to the end of the pier during high-tide.

Long. My best friend in Cambodia. Commercial photographer extraordinaire.