Can Tho to Kampot

By bus the journey from Can Tho to Kampot is scheduled to take 6 hours 30 minutes.

Bus Times from Can Tho to Kampot

There is currently 1 service a day from Can Tho to Kampot available to book online.

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Can Tho Bus Stop

Ha Tien Xanh services from Can Tho to Kampot depart from Bến Xe Khách Cần Thơ, 36 Đ. Nguyễn Văn Linh, Khu dân cư 91B, Tân An, Cần Thơ, Vietnam.

Kampot Bus Stop

Ha Tien Xanh services from Can Tho to Kampot terminate near The Hub Kampot, Sovan Sokar, 33, Kampot 070000, Cambodia.

About Travel to Kampot

Kampot is an increasingly popular tourist destination in southern Cambodia, 240 km by road to the north west of Can Tho and 100 km to the east of Sihanoukville. It’s both a visitor destination in its own right and a good place for a stopover to break up the journey from Can Tho to Koh Rong.

Accommodation in Kampot

For a small city, with around 45,000 permanent residents, Kampot has lots of tourist accommodation both in the city centre and in the surrounding area.

Major hotel booking websites list around 160 hotels, hostels, and guesthouses in or near Kampot. They range in price and facilities from very cheap and basic to luxurious and relatively expensive. The cheapest places to stay in Kampot are in shared dormitory rooms in hostels such as the Yellow Star Hostel, which charges from $3 USD a night. Kampot’s most expensive hotel, Amber Kampot, charges from $300 USD a night.

How much hotels cost in Kampot depends in part on location and river views. Rikitikitavi, which is located near the centre of Kampot on the riverside, charges around $60 USD a night.

Restaurants and Bars in Kampot

Kampot has great restaurants and bars serving both Khmer cuisine and a variety of other foods. There are around 150 places to choose from with prices and menus to suit most budgets and tastes. You can dine and drink cheaply at Khmer style bars and restaurants, or you can choose to spend a lot more on European food and imported drinks, all in the same small city centre.

The best known foreign restaurants in Kampot are Tiki Garden, Fat Barbies, Auberge du Soleil, Artisans By Atelier Kampot, L’Osteria, Simons Tandoor, and Lemongrass. The most expensive of these restaurants tend to the French restaurants. For a modern take on Khmer food try the restaurant at Rikitikitavi.

Visitor Attractions in Kampot City

There are no major tourist attractions in Kampot City. Other than riverside views, and colourful markets, the main points of interest in the city centre are colonial era buildings. Kampot was under French control from 1889 to 1940 and during that time a number of European style buildings were constructed, the most impressive of which is the former Governor’s Residence.

Phnom Chhnork Temple

Phnom Chhnork Temple is one of the main tourist attractions in the area. It’s located 14 km by road to the east of Kampot City.

Phnom Chhnork Temple is a 7th Century cave temple dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva. Visitors need to descend several hundred steps to reach a brick entrance to a small cave with a shrine to Shiva. Other points of interest at this temple include ancient stone carvings.

Green Cathedral

The ‘Green Cathedral’ is the name which has been given to a kayaking route along a series of waterways in an area about 6 km to the north of Kampot City. Some of the waterways are narrow with trees growing on each side of the river creating a canopy similar to the roof joists in a medieval European cathedral.

The route starts from the Preaek Tuek Chhu River travelling eastward along a series of much narrower waterways in a 3 km loop, which ends at nearly the same spot on Preaek Tuek Chhu River as the route started. There are several places near the start of the Green Cathedral where visitors can hire kayaks. It takes most people from 1 to 2 hours to travel by kayak along the entire route.

Beaches

Kampot City is located about 6 km upstream from the sea. There are two beaches you can reach from Kampot in under an hour.

The easiest one to get to is Kep Beach. There are plenty of minivan services from Kampot all the way to Kep Beach, The journey takes 30 to 45 minutes. Kep Beach also has a popular seafood market where you can buy fresh fish and crabs and ask vendors to cook it for you.

The better, but more difficult to reach, of the two beaches is Coconut Beach. It’s located on a small island 11 km by road due south of Kampot City. There’s no public transport to Coconut Beach so visitors need to rent their own vehicle or hire a tuk-tuk for a return journey.

Pepper Farms

The product which Kampot is most famous for is pepper. Real Kampot pepper is very expensive and much of the pepper that’s on sale in Kampot City is grown elsewhere, particularly on nearby Phu Quoc island in Vietnam.

For authentic Kampot pepper the best option is to take a trip to one of the pepper farms near the city. Many offer guided tours. The pepper farm which foreign visitors most frequently visit is the foreign run La Plantation, which has the most effective marketing and to be fair has invested the most in visitor facilities. There are other farms in the area, however, which offer visitors a similar experience.