Giant things in Kampot.
Home to the Giant tourist attractions.
Bokor Mountain – Giant mountain that can be seen all around Kampot. And you can visit it too! 1KM up, about 20 minutes away from town. To the bottom that is. Then another 45 minutes up the winding road with 298 curves. This is where you can see the Giant Buddha Statue soon. Free to go up. Bokor Mountain Website.
Yeay Mao Statue – Almost at the top of Bokor Mountain. A really big (Giant) statue of the godess of safe travels. Stop for a while, sometimes in the clouds, and bring her some bananas if you have any. Free
Giant Buddha Statue – At the top of Bokor Mountain. To be completed in the next couple years. 108 Meters. Just the base of the statue is already the biggest building in Kampot. Although you have to go the right way to get there, then pay $4 a person, before you can go there. Khmers just go right in for free. Already impressive. Will be much more so when it is finished.
Giant Clock – You can’t wear it on your wrist. Across the Kampot River from donwtown. On Fish Island. Even has a Giant pendulum. Free.
Giant Palm – Two actually. And you can walk up and stand in the hands of God, or whoever it is supposed to be. On the Kampot River beach. downtown. Free
Giant Water Show – Most every night at 6:30pm on the Kampot River, Downtown. Free.
Giant TV’s – One across the Kampot River from downtown. You can see Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and President Trump most nights signing a peace treaty in Malaysia, as well as Tom & Jerry Cartoons. Also 2 Giant TVs around the Durian Roundabout in the center of town. Free to watch as you’re driving around the circle, (with 7 major roads going in and out of the circle). Sorry, no picture of this. We don’t watch a lot of TV.)
Giant Seahorse – All day and night in downtown Kampot. It’s up about 3 meters, and then another few meters high. Shooting water out of it’s mouth into the Kampot River. Kampot’s undisputed most popular tourist attraction. Especially in the evening. Big new sidewalks along the Kampot River leading to the
Magic Seahorse. Free.
Giant Port – the Kampot International Tourism Port. Designed to look like the JFK Flight Center in New York City in the 1960’s. Intended for use to travel to Phu Quoc, Vietnam and Trat, Thailand, as well as local Cambodian trips. Now used once a day for a trip to the Cambodian Islands. At the mouth of the Kampot River and the Bay of Cambodia. Free to visit.
Kampot International Tourist Port.
Giant Island – Fish Island that is. Just across the Kampot River from Downtown. The Kampot River flows around 2 sides of the Island, and the Bay of Cambodia is the third side. You could say it’s a Giant Triangle. One bridge to visit the island. And it’s free.
Fish Island.
Giant Lake – But not compared to the great lakes of Canada and the U.S. Beautiful countryside lake a half hour outside downtown Kampot. Surrounded by mountains and farms. Free to visit.
Secret Lake.
Giant Kampot Pepper Farms – The biggest ones in the world! Kampot Pepper is only grown in Kampot (or maybe Kep, our little sister province where it all started. Used to be Kampot a few years ago.) A few Free farms to visit with Free tours. The Pepper isn’t Free though, unless you just want to try a sample.
Kampot Pepper Farms.
Giant Durian Circle – That’s right. The most popular and stinky fruit in Asia. Banned in most hotels around the world. And we’ve got the biggest one around. A Giant durian statue in the middle of downtown Kampot. You can stop and get selfies there too!
Giant Salt Fields – hundreds of them. On Fish Island and near the Tourist Port. Thousands of hectares (that’s 10,000 square meters) of salt fields. Fed by the salty ocean water nearby, and evaporated by our friend “The Sun” December to March or so every year. Free to visit.
Giant Tourist Town – Kampot, Cambodia. Most popular tourist city, town or province in all of Cambodia. 3 years in a row. Thanks to the good new roads from Phnom Penh, Kep, but Not SihanoukVille. (good train ride from there though). Free to come visit 365 days a years. (You just gotta pay for a room and food and maybe transport to get here.) Many people come to visit and never leave!