Weekend Trip: Feast on seafood and visit pepper farms in Cambodia’s coastal province of Kep

By Gabriella Chan | The Strain Time

KEP, Cambodia – Some places dazzle you, others quietly stay with you. Kep is the latter, with its orange sunsets over still waters, the scent of grilled seafood in the air and people whose kindness lingers longer than any souvenir.

A sliver of coastline in the south of Cambodia, Kep was once the playground of French colonials and Cambodia’s wealthy elite. Its heyday faded under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, leaving behind skeletons of grand villas. 

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