Happy Beach

Koh Kong City


Northeast of town, this place offers a unique slice of Cambodian life with seaside, covered decks on stilts where families and friends laze about with their shoes off, taking down heaping portions of Khmer food served off a wooden block on the ground.

At the end of the meal, everyone curls up in hammocks and relaxes to the sound of lapping waves and the smell of sun-drying fish paste wafting on the wind. It's hard to find – go right when the road forks and continue another 150m.


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