Sihanoukville / Cambodia

As a booming industrial and touristic center with a deep-sea port, Sihanoukville (also: Kampong Som, Kompong Som, Kampong Soum, nickname: Snook) is the only Cambodian coastal city of significance. With a population between 200,00 and 250,000 inhabitants it’s also one of the biggest cities of Cambodia.

The place is situated at the southeast of Cambodia on the shores of the Gulf of Thailand. The touristic attraction lies mostly in a number of fine sand beaches close to the city and the developed touristic infrastructure and facilities of many kinds.

Sihanoukville is as well a city as a province. The surroundings are coined by the sea and a larger number of smaller and bigger islands, and by a forested, hilly landscape, the foothills of the damrei (elephant) mountains. It reminds to the French mediterranean coast at the Côte d’Azur.

(…)Sihanoukville’s history reaches back only to the mid 1950s. After the independence, Cambodia’s access to the open sea depended on the free passage along the Mekong River between Phnom Penh to the South China Sea. But that meant to cross over Vietnamese territory and included Vietnamese restrictions. To get an own seaport, in 1955 the construction of a deep sea port at Kampong Som begun.

The foundation of the small province and the new town happened then in 1960. The name was given after the then prime minister and prince Norodom Sihanouk.

The port was also in the focus in the American Vietnam War.(…)

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Angkor Borei and Phnom Da

Ankor Borei is one of the oldest settlements in Southeast Asia. It’s by some archeologists considered the capital of the civilization of Funan. Situated in the Mekong Delta, it’s an extraordinary drive to the site. In rainy season there is only one road usable, in the dry season one can cross through the thousands of years old cultural landscapes of the Mekong Delta in Takeo Province of Cambodia.

Angkor Borei has an archeological museum and close to the place is Phnom Da situated. Phnom Da is a mountain with two ancient temple sites who date back to the beginning of civilization.

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Damming the Mekong

The Mekong River is still a widely unindustrialized green river over most of it’s course. It’s the river with the second largest biodiversity on earth and a food source for 65 million people. Now the Mekong is under threat. A series of dams are planned on the main course of the river. Additionally there are dozends of more dams planned, under construction or already operating at the Mekong’s many tributaries. The Mekong River’s ecology is under severe threat…

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The Mekong River

The Mekong River is Southeast Asia’s biggest river in length, water volume and catchment area. But, above all, it’s the river with the largest biodiversity in Asia. There are still animals who are not yet discovered. The Mekong also hosts the most greatest sweetwater fish on earth; among them the Giant Catfish and a huge sweetwater stingray with a wingspan of 4.30m, what is half the length of a bus.

The Mekong is also home of a few last couples of Irrawaddy Dolphins, a sweetwater dolphin who lived in the past in numbers up to thousands in the river.

Sourcing in the majestic glacier world of the Tibetan Plateau in 5,000m altitude, the Mekong River makes his way over more than 4,800km through south China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and south Vietnam, where it meets the South China Sea.

Fisheries catch annually 2.6 million tons of fish out of the river, what feeds about 65 million people in Southeast Asia. The magnificent’s rivers landscapes invite to a journey along the stream.

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