The city of Kampot

Since our goal is Kampot, here are a few lines about this city by Wikipedia:

"Kampot a city in southern Cambodia and the capital of Kampot Province. It is situated at the Praek Tuek Chhu river southeast of the Elephant Mountains and around 5 km from the Gulf of Thailand.

It became Cambodia's most important sea port after the loss of the Mekong Delta [to Vietnam] and before the establishment of Sihanoukville. Its centre is unlike most Cambodian provincial capitals composed of 19th-century French colonial architecture. The region and town are well known for the high quality pepper, which is being exported worldwide. It is also known for its Kampot fish sauce and durian, the latte are tasty but smell nasty while cut."

Gregory McCann who is the Project Coordinator of Habitat ID, Assistant Professor at Chang Gung University in Taiwan writes about Kampot:

"Famous for its beautifully-preserved French colonial architecture and its wide, slow-flowing river that spills into the Gulf of Thailand, Cambodia’s Kampot Province has an almost dreamy quality about it.

One of the few Cambodian cities that was never bombed by American fighter jets during President Richard Nixon’s secret – and illegal war – on Vietnamese infiltrators, Kampot is the kind of laidback small town that oozes so much charm that many western foreigners are retiring (or planning to retire) there."

At the begining of our story, here are a few photos of the shopping center that distinguishes the city, and the streets near our home.