Your guide and tips to Koh Rong Samloem by Beth In all the years I spent dreaming of Cambodia and its jungle-tumbled temples, I never gave much thought to the rest of its landscape. I suppose I had some small sense of the damage wrought by the Khmer Rouge and I think I once read a novel about the French occupation, but I had no idea about the islands. The Koh Rong Samloem will take you by surprise. Calm Sharing the Gulf of Thailand with the much better known Thai islands (think full moon parties and booze cruises), Cambodia's tropical islands fall to the South, closer to Vietnam, and offer, for now at least, a quiet paradise with minimal development and maximum peace. Clear waters The biggest, Koh Rong, has absorbed some of it's Thai relative's party vibes, so I'd opt for Koh Rong Samloem,
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A hard trek to a lazy paradise - Cambodia's Koh Rong Samloem
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