Jo enjoying some local food, a delicacy....chickens feet (yum, yum NOT!!). Not really what we ordered, but anyway...that's the way it goes sometimes eating at such local restaurants as these (Pic taken at the restaurant's picnic marquee)
A beautiful sunset pic looking out to the ocean - Bokor Mountain silhouette is seen in the background (View from the Verandah restaurant)
A view down the main road in Kep (alongside the beach). Here you can see the individual marquee style picnic spots (you have to rent them - at anywhere between $3-6 depending on who you talk to!)
On our way to the local crab market at dusk - over Khmer New Year it is very busy with market sellers, locals and foreigners alike enjoying some fresh seafood
Jo enjoying the hammock at the Vanna Guest house bungalow - very nice view at a relaxing spot in Kep
Jo with view of the ocean from Vanna Guest house
Same, same but different! Mark with ocean behind (at Vanna Guest house)
Visiting Rabbit Island for the day...talk about doin' it tough!! the swimming beaches are great on the island - better than Kep beaches which have local drains/sewerage outfall nearby...Over Khmer NY - there were mainly locals visiting for a change ..busy, busy on the island this day!
Exploring some of the countryside on moto - lots of fun until we got a flat tyre! Fortunately a repair shop was close by at about 1.5 km walking distance...lots of fun in the heat of the day we might add!! We visited Kampot one day and Kampong Trach the next - fascinating countryside areas, with beautiful scenery.
On the road - a local motodop driver taking a load of supplies somewhere...this is typical of the load they tend to carry - talk about a balancing act!!
On the way into Kampong Trach tonwship - a local farmer taking a load of wood using horse and buggy...this is still very familiar mode of transport locally - just shows how different that countryside areas are compared to PP with all it's Lexus' and 4WD's getting around...
On a visit to the "secret beach" just out of Kep - it was a tad disappointing given the beach was pretty non-existent, merely a fishing inlet for locals. Though we arrived just as the local farmers were coming in for lunch - this is a pic of some of them coming in from harvesting (not sure what exactly!) but they all carried machete's and hoes....interesting!
A local fisherman bringing in the crab nets - behind the crab markets in Kep
A local fisherman bringing in the crab nets - behind the crab markets in Kep
Picture says it all...ahh the serenity! Kep Beach sunset at its finest...
Local fisherman wading out to collect some nets...beautiful sunset with rain on the way (it seemed the wet season had arrived - as it rained several nights in a row while we were in Kep)
A large gecko wonderfully disguised on this stone wall...
Our last day - waiting for the 1pm bus....it turned up at 1:50pm and as typical of the local bus system at every stop along the way they just keep piling in more and more people - it's really crazy! Felt rather like sardines after a while!! Arrived 4.5 hours later in Phnom Penh with busy roads catering for the return traffic from Khmer NY celebrations in the provinces.
Local fisherman wading out to collect some nets...beautiful sunset with rain on the way (it seemed the wet season had arrived - as it rained several nights in a row while we were in Kep)
A large gecko wonderfully disguised on this stone wall...
Our last day - waiting for the 1pm bus....it turned up at 1:50pm and as typical of the local bus system at every stop along the way they just keep piling in more and more people - it's really crazy! Felt rather like sardines after a while!! Arrived 4.5 hours later in Phnom Penh with busy roads catering for the return traffic from Khmer NY celebrations in the provinces.
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