Kampot

From Wikinfo

Kampot is a southern province of Cambodia. Its capital is Kampot, a quiet riverside town just a few kilometers from the Gulf of Thailand. Kampot often serves as a tourist base for exploring Bokor National Park and the Bokor hill station, a former French resort. The beachtown of Kep is also only about an hour away. In his 1998 nonfiction book Canbodia: Report From a Stricken Land, author Henry Kamm describes Kep as "an indolently sleepy fishing village."

Before the wars that ravaged Indochina, Kampot province was best known for its famous pepper, which is still widely available in Cambodia.

Kampot made the international news on November 9, 2005 in a Reuters news story of the law suit filed by Kampot provincial governor Puth Candarith against Roger Graham for disseminating false information and defaming the province in his web sites: www.euthanasiaincambodia.com and www.asian-hearts.com. Californian Graham owns the Blue Mountain Coffee and Internet Cafe in Kampot.

Districts in Kampot province

Angkor Chey
Banteay Meas
Chhuk
Chum Kiri
Dang Tong
Kampong Trach
Kampot
Kampong Bay

Sources

"One-way ticket to Cambodia, please..." Reuters. November 9, 2005.
Henry Kamm. 1998. Cambodia: Report From a Stricken Land. New york: Arcade Publishing. ISBN 1559705078.

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