About
Kep is a tiny seaside town where you can eat fresh crab and swim in the Gulf of Thailand. In the early 1960s as a French Colony it was dubbed the Cambodian Riviera. There was a casino, a zoo and it was a very glamourous romantic destination attracting Jackie Kennedy, Catherine Deneuve and Khmer aristocracy.
To Do
Visit the crab market. Head along the beachfront and you can stop at many of the Seafood Cafe / Restaurants or take a tuk tuk past them and then the wooden fishing boats to reach the morning crab market.
Pick out live crab from the buckets, there are also prawns, shrimp and oysters.
After being weighed, pay and take them to anyone who has a stove literally fired up to boil or stir fry with Kampot Green Pepper sauce. Instead choose some food off the BBQ grill.
Next find somewhere to sit, it's only really busy at weekends, there is a charge for this unless you purchase some soft drink.
Explore the deserted back streets, a procession of apocalyptic Art-Deco ruins mostly reclaimed by the jungle. Now ghosts of Cambodia's golden era. When the Khmer Rouge took over the city, they rounded up Kep’s upper class, forced them into a gas station, and set the building on fire.
The dilapidated 1930's Queen's Villa is on the beachfront and was a residence for Queen Sisowath Kossamak. Bullet holes are clearly visible.
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