Was there over the weekend, great food and pretty cheap- really built out since my last visit a few years ago.
Full of raving crazies, moto accidents and stinking backpackers. literally stinking.
seems a bit frayed and desperate = seedier than sihanoukville/

frank lee bent wrote:Was there over the weekend, great food and pretty cheap- really built out since my last visit a few years ago.
Full of raving crazies, moto accidents and stinking backpackers. literally stinking.
seems a bit frayed and desperate = seedier than sihanoukville/

Yeh it was great building up to NYE but now high season is in full effect so the jasmine pant wankas are in full effect.

frank lee bent wrote:Was there over the weekend, great food and pretty cheap- really built out since my last visit a few years ago.
Full of raving crazies, moto accidents and stinking backpackers. literally stinking.
seems a bit frayed and desperate = seedier than sihanoukville/

Here now. I wouldn't say "seedier than Sihanoukville," but I can see the rest. A lot of new businesses. A lot of potless young tourists. Blatant drugs. Disinterested locals. The tone has changed. The pace is picking up, and getting less quiant by the month. And I think that's part of it, knowing what it was. If I was a tourist who arrived today for the first time I'd think it was something special, that I'd got there just in time, right at the beginning of tourist development. But knowing, looking back only a couple few years it does now look like paradise almost lost. God knows what it's going to look like in 5 years.

I see that the old prison is gone. A flat open mudscape now. Only the two colonial office buildings at the front remain. And if the concept drawing of the future development on the sign is correct, only one will be preserved in the end.

It's 9:20PM in Kampot and there are a dozen+ places open and within walking distance where I can sit a a bar and get a drink. Ugh.

So I think I'll go have a drink.

have any girly bars opened up yet? if not, im not interested...

Jamie_Lambo wrote:have any girly bars opened up yet? if not, im not interested...

Kampot has western birds but there heads are all stuck up there arse, , harder work than back home in Sydney .

bkktrapper wrote:

Jamie_Lambo wrote:have any girly bars opened up yet? if not, im not interested...

Kampot has western birds but there heads are all stuck up there arse, , harder work than back home in Sydney .

theyre not even on my radar mate.... haha
i do fancy taking a drive out to kampot again for a few nights, maybe go for a relaxing detox after ive drank myself silly for a few days after my fight lol

Jamie_Lambo wrote:have any girly bars opened up yet? if not, im not interested...

Nope, and the general consensus among expats seems to be that is that they don't want any. There are some beergardens and ktv's with hostesses though.

Kampot has appeared on some backpacker blogs over the last 2-3 years as the new "in" place to party. Then it's clear the plague has landed.

The prison has gone, gone where?

willyhilly wrote:The prison has gone, gone where?

Land swap a good 15km out of town. East, I think.