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Sihanoukville
Interesting places in Sihanoukville:| Ochheuteal Beach | Otres Beach | |
| Sokha Beach | Serendipity Beach | |
| Weather Station Hill |
Sihanoukville, also known as Kampong Som, or Kampong Saom, is a port city in southern Cambodia on the Gulf of Thailand. The city was founded in 1964 to be the only deep water port in Cambodia and its beaches are rapidly making it popular as a tourist destination. The city is named after King Norodom Sihanouk.
The reason to visit Sihanoukville is the beaches. Not as crowded as some of the Thai resorts, but they can be cramped on weekends and holidays. For diving go to one of the nearby islands. The town itself doesn't offer much to see. From north to south, the beaches are:
- Victory Beach - south of the commercial port with plenty of budget accommodation nearby on Weather Station Hill.
- Independence Beach - also known as '7-chann beach' after the defunct, seven-storey Independence Hotel.
- Sokha Beach - all but 100 meters of it reserved for guests of the Sokha Beach Resort.
- Ochheuteal Beach - the most popular beach, with many restaurants, bars and food vendors. Pronounced, roughly, "oh-chur-teal". The northern part is called Serendipity Beach, and offers guesthouses right on the beach.
- Otres Beach - south of Serendipity, this is the least developed and crowded beach.
Other places of interest include:
- Kampong Pier Nup Lok - the old fishing port 2 km north of the commercial port offers some nice views.
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Kompong Som Beach
Made by looking4poetry
We took a part of our Cambodian family to the beach in Kompong Som now called Sihanoukville - it is 5-6 hours of road in a minibus so we had to wake up at 4 o'clock to arrive at decent hours, enjoy our time and a bit of the afternoon, and go back to Phnom Penh soon after nightfall (driving at night is a bit dangerous in this kind of country I wouldn't recommend it). For most of my cousins, it was the first time of their life they were seeing the sea. It was a very moving moment to observe their eyes shining when confronted to the sea. My older cousin surprises us when starting brushing his teeth... with the sand of the beach... :-)) ! One has to be imaginative when not wanting to spare is money into a teeth brush... For your information, my oncle earns around 15 dollars a month to feed his 6 children family (not counting the adopted ones) most of them are working as well to or hunt when have time to bring back food and money to the family as well.
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This photo is now under copyright protection. It features in a photography book which has just been published under the name: Laos and Cambodia in Pictures by F.G.Bechwati
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Nearest places of interest:
| Ochheuteal Beach Koh Samloem Cambodia (KL) Otres Beach Koh Russei, Cambodia (KL) | Bokor Hill Station Kampot Serendipity Beach Sokha Beach |
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Cambodia Battambang Phnom Penh Siem Reap |
Angkor Wat Tuol Sleng G.. Bayon Angkor |
