Exploring Kep

Lady getting out the crabs

Bringing the crabs in

Lady cooking our prawns

Making our sugar-cane juice

Then we decided to go a bit further afield and as there were 4 of us, it was cheaper to hire a tuk tuk for the day instead of hiring 2 bikes. So after some hard negotiating we were on our way. First stop was to some caves about 30km away from Kep and it was a great disappointment.

The caves

Limsestone cliffs

Entrance to cave

Walking up to caves

As it is rainy season, The Caves are completely flooded, but of course no one was willing to tell this when planning our adventure, especially not the tuk tuk driver, or when paying The Entrance fees when we arrived.

Just inside the entrance of flooded cave

Cannot go inside cause of flooding

So we could only go just inside The Entrance and even though we said countless times that we didn’t want a guide, 7 children joined us adamant that they would offer their guide services to us.

Inside the cave

Inside cave

Inside the cave

As far in as we could go

But I’m sure they are great to look around during the dry season, but during wet season it is a waste of money for both transport and entrance fees. But then again we have seen many caves, so I’m sure we didn’t miss much. After this, we went to a pepper Plantation was which in fact really interesting.

Green peppercorns

Peppercorn vines

Kampot pepper is really famous and quite possibly the best pepper you can buy and we even got to try some.

Lychees

Huge papayas

Me though, hating anything spicy or very peppery embarrassingly had to spit it out. Then in the evening, back to Kimley’s restaurant for the tasty crab dish again!

written by  chrischarly on August 26, 2011 from Kep, Cambodia
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Passage through SE Asia
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