Visiting Koh Trong, Kratie
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Re: Visiting Koh Trong, Kratie
Revisiting Koh Trong. Update 2017:
A brand new highway has been built on Koh Trong.
But since it is a one-lane highway, sometimes you have to move over for faster moving traffic.
There is even a map so you won't get lost.
And there is a tourist information centre.
Taxi stand:
Town centre, a wat, what else ?
There is much talk of future beach development. Let them talk.
In other words, Koh Trong hasn't changed much. Electricity has been installed, and there is a new strip of concrete (the highway) leading to the island's only tourist resort, but the rest of the island is more or less untouched. Homestays are available for those who are looking for simple accommodation and local contact.
A brand new highway has been built on Koh Trong.
But since it is a one-lane highway, sometimes you have to move over for faster moving traffic.
There is even a map so you won't get lost.
And there is a tourist information centre.
Taxi stand:
Town centre, a wat, what else ?
There is much talk of future beach development. Let them talk.
In other words, Koh Trong hasn't changed much. Electricity has been installed, and there is a new strip of concrete (the highway) leading to the island's only tourist resort, but the rest of the island is more or less untouched. Homestays are available for those who are looking for simple accommodation and local contact.
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Re: Visiting Koh Trong, Kratie
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Re: Visiting Koh Trong, Kratie
Great article on Koh Trong island and check the link for the photos:
Heart of the Mekong
September 25, 2019
On the island of Koh Trong in the middle of the Mekong River, travellers can explore a vision of rural Cambodian life untouched by the clamour and chaos of the modern world – and, just a short drive away, an intimate encounter with some of the Kingdom’s last Irrawaddy dolphins
words by Paul Millar
photography by Thomas Cristofoletti
Nestled in the heart of the Mekong, the island of Koh Trong lies just a ten-minute ferry ride from the old market town of Kratie, five hours north of Phnom Penh. On the riverfront, travellers can wait with a cold drink in hand looking down over the dusty steps descending to the water’s edge from Jasmine Boat Restaurant. Beneath these blue eaves, road-weary guests gaze out across the river to the lush greenery of Koh Trong, bound by a salt-white expanse of sand left bare by the turning seasons.
It is here, on the edge of Koh Trong, that a visitor to this forgotten corner of Cambodia straddles the border between water, sand and sky, where the receding river has left its white bones shining beneath the sun. Thin green shoots whisper their way through the silt and smoke of distant fires, little lives fed by what the waters left behind. A floating house hangs still in the current; on its decks, a fisherman draws in his nets by inches. And it is here, when the red sun sinks below the trees and the sky is flooded with tones of burning iron, that you will glimpse a beauty that has endured since Koh Trong rose from the river’s depths aeons ago, before the memory of man.
But all that is still before you. Now, swaying with the current in the creaking ribs of the ferry, you watch as the blue tiles of the restaurant, the shimmering spires of the pagodas, the fading roofs of Kratie’s ageing colonial outposts lose their clamour and colour and join the rest of the outside world in blurry irrelevance. Now, as your boat glides silently into the shallows, you can give yourself over to stillness.
The island of Koh Trong is a snatch of rural Cambodian life largely undisturbed by the baggage of modernity that lies heavy upon the cities of Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. Ox-carts clunk along dry dirt roads weaving between fields of new rice. Rows of wooden houses line the winding lanes of the island, sheltered behind home-grown groves and gardens tended by local villagers. Koh Trong is no mere Potemkin village; aside from the occasional tuk tuk sputtering between the trees, the residents go about their daily lives with refreshingly little concern for the beaming tourists trundling about on fixed-gear bicycles.
https://discover-cambodia.com/heart-of-the-mekong-2/
Heart of the Mekong
September 25, 2019
On the island of Koh Trong in the middle of the Mekong River, travellers can explore a vision of rural Cambodian life untouched by the clamour and chaos of the modern world – and, just a short drive away, an intimate encounter with some of the Kingdom’s last Irrawaddy dolphins
words by Paul Millar
photography by Thomas Cristofoletti
Nestled in the heart of the Mekong, the island of Koh Trong lies just a ten-minute ferry ride from the old market town of Kratie, five hours north of Phnom Penh. On the riverfront, travellers can wait with a cold drink in hand looking down over the dusty steps descending to the water’s edge from Jasmine Boat Restaurant. Beneath these blue eaves, road-weary guests gaze out across the river to the lush greenery of Koh Trong, bound by a salt-white expanse of sand left bare by the turning seasons.
It is here, on the edge of Koh Trong, that a visitor to this forgotten corner of Cambodia straddles the border between water, sand and sky, where the receding river has left its white bones shining beneath the sun. Thin green shoots whisper their way through the silt and smoke of distant fires, little lives fed by what the waters left behind. A floating house hangs still in the current; on its decks, a fisherman draws in his nets by inches. And it is here, when the red sun sinks below the trees and the sky is flooded with tones of burning iron, that you will glimpse a beauty that has endured since Koh Trong rose from the river’s depths aeons ago, before the memory of man.
But all that is still before you. Now, swaying with the current in the creaking ribs of the ferry, you watch as the blue tiles of the restaurant, the shimmering spires of the pagodas, the fading roofs of Kratie’s ageing colonial outposts lose their clamour and colour and join the rest of the outside world in blurry irrelevance. Now, as your boat glides silently into the shallows, you can give yourself over to stillness.
The island of Koh Trong is a snatch of rural Cambodian life largely undisturbed by the baggage of modernity that lies heavy upon the cities of Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. Ox-carts clunk along dry dirt roads weaving between fields of new rice. Rows of wooden houses line the winding lanes of the island, sheltered behind home-grown groves and gardens tended by local villagers. Koh Trong is no mere Potemkin village; aside from the occasional tuk tuk sputtering between the trees, the residents go about their daily lives with refreshingly little concern for the beaming tourists trundling about on fixed-gear bicycles.
https://discover-cambodia.com/heart-of-the-mekong-2/
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Re: Visiting Koh Trong, Kratie
This thread is a bit of a waste of time now the photos are gone, but I came across this video on Koh Trong eco-tourism, which is only about 6 months old, so will leave it here. They have very few tourists right now.
A bit of country life for you city folks.
A bit of country life for you city folks.
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Re: Visiting Koh Trong, Kratie
AM is a hipster!!??
NOooo....
and here is me all this time thinking i was following an authentic Pastafarian guru.
'shattered.
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