Kampot and Kep

Our next stop was in Kampot, an attractive riverside town with a slightly bohemian feel. Definitely one of our favourite places to date.

Travelling kitchen shop!

Whilst in Kampot we did a very enjoyable open air yoga class on a platform overlooking the river and also spent a fascinating day in the remote ( and off the grid ) countryside with an English ex teacher and her Cambodian husband who run cookery classes and are living quite a self sufficient life growing their own vegetables and herbs and keeping chickens. We also went for a walk with them to their neighbours who happened to be catching crabs in the paddy fields, so the freshwater crabs got cooked and eaten too!

Nic also had his first experience of paddle boarding and enjoyed a magical sunset.

Catching jellyfish, apparently for the Chinese market ..

We then took the 'Crab shuttle' boat to Kep, a town famed for the crustaceans, from the sea this time! They were hard work to eat but we were very motivated!

We also enjoyed a great walk in the national park and were up early enough to see a red squirrel, almost purplish in the tail, a species which has it's own local society. But it didn't hang around for a photo! Nic even got out on a short bike ride.