We woke up early to catch our $6.50 VAN to Kampot, to our delight an airconditioned Camry turned and and we eagerly jumped in the back. 600m down the road the car pulled over and picked up a further two young asian girls...this meant 7 in a 5 seater car. The 3 of us squished in the back with Britt snuggled up to a cambodian guy while the two girls shared the front seat. Surely it had to be a joke.... yet 2hours dwon the track and terribly uncomfortable we realised we truely had been taken for a ride in more ways than one.

Found accom at the blissful inn - $6 per room, very tidy I would recommend, and great food!!

We spent day one on foot touring with our tour guide Gravy Pattonski, who had equiped herself with a great we find the kampot local booklet which had good jokes, good info and maps that were not maps - same same but different but gave us a good idea of where to go and what to see - there was a KFC which turned out to be the kampot footbal club much to our dismay. Saw some interesting building going on, OSH would have a field day with the scaffolding we saw. This city like many cmabodian cities have not heard of rubbish bins and the roadsides are filled with rubbish. We did find some good happy hours - and we mean hours I dont think they know what hour is as many of the happy hours we have seen begin at midday and go on until midnight. Had a relaxing day watched the sunset over the river and enjoyed drinks and our books with a few rounds of cards.

Day 2 we organised a tour of the outskirts of Kampot and down to Kep for a daylong Tuk Tuk with Vandon our driver who spoke avergae english (4/10) but was helpful enough. Visited the salt farms which were runied the night before by thunder and lightening storms. They get the salt water into ponds, they take 10 days to dry up and then they rake up the salt. The storm had basically made this process a 30 day one instead of 10!! Visited the BAT CAVE - okay not batmans lair but a bat cave none the less, very cool, amazing and freaky. Pepper plantation was interesting - saw how black pepper is processed and grown. Kep - a seaside town - provided us with crab for lunch - hard to eat but flippen yummy scrummy mmmmm yum yum yummy...yummy - get the picture it was delicious and we ate it overlooking the ocean. We the sat on the beach and ngotiated our next move to the secret - but not so secret - lake for sunset. We sat on the lake in tyres reading our books admiring the sunset and entertained by music from a nearby wedding. Vandern was a great tour guide and had great humour!!

The poeple of Kampot are lovely, we felt like royals throught their streets with children yelling hello and waving, with us waving back like queens, talk about a self esteem boost!! They are all very kind and this town as very laid back and relaxing.