Best Beaches in Koh Rong – Paradise or Building Site?

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:01]Good eye.

[00:00:06]Welcome to me.

[00:00:10]Where can I knock on beach with the sound as the sea.

[00:00:18]How cool is that?

[00:00:21]It's about 9:00 a.m. in the morning.

[00:00:24]Looking across at the silhouette silhouetting the Manhattan skyline of See See Hookville. Snooky for sure.

[00:00:37]So, we look upon our equal promenade of where I set most of the night up on my balcony, look.

[00:00:51]Now, I sat here last night having a big old bifter or two and a few ice-cold beers watching a storm out at the light show over See Hookville last night. And I was sitting here having a little wonder looking down. Good eye. The lovely ladies wandering past. You all right, Aussie?

[00:01:11]Yeah, mate. No worries. All wicked, darling.

[00:01:16]Oh, wow. Peach.

[00:01:19]That is a peach. That's right, today. I'm Aussie. I am. Peachy Aussie. So, I sat here last night thinking apart from all the noise There's a boat now leaving, look, off the pier. Now, come back. That must be the 9:00 a.m. early morning boat back to See Hookville. Well, I was thinking it's ain't too bad.

[00:01:46]I was up this morning early, 5:00. Went for a walk up the beach. Came back.

[00:01:52]Sitting here.

[00:01:54]Sun come out.

[00:01:57]And I was thinking well, it's ain't too bad.

[00:02:08]Life is never easy, even when it's really easy.

[00:02:13]It's no.

[00:02:15]So, I've got Have I forgotten how noisy it was last night just because of how good it feels this morning?

[00:02:26]I think so.

[00:02:28]Time is getting on.

[00:02:30]It's also getting rather hot.

[00:02:32]I have rented a horse.

[00:02:34]Right here.

[00:02:36]That is my equal horse for the day. Now, that's going to do the job.

[00:02:42]Rented from right here with this guy.

[00:02:44]Right here. Have a tuk-tuk crew, everything. They have three brothers.

[00:02:48]They'll take you on the boats, or they'll do literally the bare everything and anything you want them to. At a price, of course.

[00:02:55]Now, you sitting down? Rental price for the horse, $10 for the day.

[00:03:03]And that's only for the day. I've got to have it back at 10:00 tonight, which isn't too bad because that's where I shall be sitting.

[00:03:13]Like you on the season and chilling out, having a happy ending.

[00:03:17]So, I've got my horse.

[00:03:19]Let's get on the road.

[00:03:24]Hookah hookah, look at my hookah hookah makes some plugs.

[00:03:29]Nothing else better to do.

[00:03:32]Time out.

[00:03:34]I've made it coconut coconut beach.

[00:03:38]Polish fellas got a little business here. Literally just as I arrived, it literally has just started to rain.

[00:03:48]Not a bad place to be. It's It's quiet.

[00:03:50]It's a cool place.

[00:03:52]And guys got really good bungalows just up there, which when it stops raining, I'll make a vlog for my tour channel today.

[00:04:02]I was just like I've only been I've been what? One place.

[00:04:06]One place. That's it. The play the the island is growing rapidly through the building site, but ice cold Cambodia.

[00:04:14]Cheers.

[00:04:25]In the mission.

[00:04:30]I have seen an incredible bit of beach. I saw some back there.

[00:04:38]So, I just come down this road. All right.

[00:04:40]Building there. Now, it could rain.

[00:04:43]There's a little bit of shower I just come through, so I thought well, worst case I'll dive in there. I've got a bit of shelter.

[00:04:49]I'm I'm I I that's what keeping me eye out for.

[00:04:53]But, I saw this wicked bit of beach here.

[00:04:57]Look. All through the mangroves. The mangroves here has been cleared.

[00:05:03]This whole ground right here used to be a mountain.

[00:05:07]Literally, perhaps a year ago a mountain stood here.

[00:05:13]I'm not sinking that deep.

[00:05:15]Uh will I be able to show you this beach right through here?

[00:05:21]Well, maybe the monks are going to build their own resort.

[00:05:30]Uh there's a few living there.

[00:05:32]I I you see this. Look. This flood plain.

[00:05:36]Weird.

[00:05:38]I'm not far.

[00:05:40]I am I'm trying to go around the island in a I'm actually going around in a anti- clockwise motion.

[00:05:50]So, that is how you are seeing wow, this [snorts] wonderful coastline. This is proper mud.

[00:06:00]Wow, look and you see all the roots in the mangrove.

[00:06:04]And always a bit smelly in the mangrove.

[00:06:09]Wow, we've got across.

[00:06:13]Man.

[00:06:17]I got swings.

[00:06:19]They're not kiddie swings, yeah, can you see them?

[00:06:22]Look, man, wicked coastline right here on the other side of the mangrove. So, when the tide come in, as you can see, I guess the tide is all now going out still.

[00:06:31]Fisherman's boats are there. You can see all the sandbars.

[00:06:35]Wicked beach.

[00:06:36]So, when the tide comes in, I reckon all the fishing boats will be able to come in.

[00:06:43]I guess.

[00:06:45]It's wicked coastline.

[00:06:47]You can see there's rain sweeping through there right now. Funny enough, that is the right way I'm heading.

[00:06:54]Mad.

[00:06:56]Oh, it's just the sound.

[00:07:00]This is the sound of utter peace.

[00:07:04]Birds tweeting.

[00:07:07]And I think I'm going to have to turn around.

[00:07:12]Mhm.

[00:07:17]I think I wait and I think you see them rain clouds the rain coming through there is pretty heavy, but it's moving pretty quick.

[00:07:26]So, I don't know if the road's going to take me all the way out that way or cross this way.

[00:07:32]I just don't know. I haven't got any GPS. I have got a map, but I can have a look. It'll give me some idea if I could do a short loop as opposed to the long loop.

[00:07:44]I [snorts] guess. Now, why do mangoes stink so much?

[00:07:52]Woah.

[00:07:53]Do they absorb crap?

[00:07:58]Don't know.

[00:07:59]Maybe they do.

[00:08:01]Woah.

[00:08:07]Epic little adventure.

[00:08:09]Oh, if you don't know, it's one of them things. I don't know what's around the corner. What we going to see here?

[00:08:14]Wonderful peaceful resort. Shanty sh- Oh, I did see some one resort that was all abandoned, but overgrown.

[00:08:23]But I'm like >> [laughter] >> I couldn't be bothered.

[00:08:26]So, I just carried on.

[00:08:28]And this wicked coastline here, all natural.

[00:08:32]It is very Oh, excuse me, contrasting.

[00:08:40]Guess what?

[00:08:41]Guess what? It's cold. Oh, very good.

[00:08:45]How much?

[00:08:47]3,000.

[00:08:50]That's a bargain.

[00:08:52]That's 75 cents.

[00:08:54]By the way, guess what?

[00:08:58]I literally go in.

[00:09:03]I do, yeah. Nirvana, very good.

[00:09:05]Nirvana's from my city, Seattle. Oh, from Seattle. Yeah. All the best bands come from Seattle. You like Pearl Jam?

[00:09:12]Yeah.

[00:09:13]Oh, that's wicked.

[00:09:15]Yeah, I'm English. English? Yes. From England. From England? Do you come from Seattle? Yeah, Washington. Yeah, okay.

[00:09:23]That's cool.

[00:09:25]That's cool. What? Sorry, anyway, guys, I've got me wallet, huh?

[00:09:31]Uh, as long as when the rain stop. No, I mean I know it. it is.

[00:09:36]Not long. Not long. Maybe just today.

[00:09:38]Oh, just today? I may stay another day.

[00:09:40]I don't know. Yeah, yeah, I just tour, you know.

[00:09:44]Ice cold beer. Cheers.

[00:09:53]That's what I'll be doing today.

[00:09:55]When the rain looks to start, I look to duck in a bit of cover. I'm not the only one. Look, everybody is tucked in for a bit of cover.

[00:10:05]Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers, darling.

[00:10:08]Cheers, Alistair.

[00:10:14]It's raining down, mate.

[00:10:19]How lucky this place. Just here, just one little spot.

[00:10:23]I know they're on the side of the road.

[00:10:26]So lucky.

[00:10:29]After the rain comes the sun.

[00:10:35]It does.

[00:10:36]But not for long. It'll be more rain along in a minute.

[00:10:41]Tough day in the office, but it's okay.

[00:10:43]Worst-case scenario, I'm going to get drunk. Keep ducking into places, having a nice cold beer while the showers disappear. Now I am at the top of the hill. I have passed Mango Bay, and I have seen this place.

[00:11:01]Okay, it's an equestrian community of Koh Rong. Together, this is what I saw.

[00:11:10]I saw one tourist, one tree, together for a green community. Now, I don't know why they've got the pedlos up here.

[00:11:19]There is I don't know if you've got to pay. I think you might have to pay to go in to the eco-tourism community of Koh Rong.

[00:11:29]If so, there is a little center right here.

[00:11:34]I mean, they do food.

[00:11:36]Cannot see what the prices are.

[00:11:39]All rubbed out. But, it looks cool.

[00:11:43]Hello. Good day, darling.

[00:11:45]How are you?

[00:11:47]So, if you are a visitor, you you have to pay $2 to come in.

[00:11:53]And a kayak, if you want to go kayaking in the sea, is $10 for the kayak.

[00:12:00]Okay. Is it okay if I just film?

[00:12:03]Uh uh to the left you get to the left.

[00:12:05]Okay.

[00:12:06]>> Yeah. One kayak, one 10 the left will be fine. Okay. Okay. Okay.

[00:12:10]Um I'll just film inside.

[00:12:13]Oh, so if you want to come guy Oh, wow.

[00:12:14]You have bungalow? 1 km right here. 1 km? Yeah.

[00:12:19]Okay.

[00:12:20]Hey, okay. Okay. I couldn't I couldn't try. Information center there.

[00:12:26]Now, me personally, I I I hate all this crap.

[00:12:30]Hey, this is just rubbish. It is it is I know. It's just It's just What's the right word?

[00:12:38]It's It's robbing you. That's what I say. Put out all that eco whatever. You come and support it your own way. That's why I don't I'm like I'm like it's like the hippies.

[00:12:50]I'll tell you what it is to me, right?

[00:12:52]It's capitalistic hippies. 100%. That's what it is.

[00:12:57]And I don't like the capitalistic hippies at all. No, I don't know. So, there you go.

[00:13:03]But, that's what I like. Staying on the beach. I know.

[00:13:11]Oh, these capitalistic hippies.

[00:13:15]Oh, Ko Pha-ngan is full of them. And if I'm going to draw a conclusion to what this island is like anywhere else that I've been, then it is more familiar with Ko Pha-ngan than anywhere else that I've been.

[00:13:31]Ah, this Koh Phangan about 10 years ago.

[00:13:37]Two kilometers ago I saw a sign that said waterfall 800 m.

[00:13:49]Now, I can see that there has been some water that has fallen along this building site of my island.

[00:14:02]But, that has not deterred me. No, it has not.

[00:14:06]Could be rained on.

[00:14:08]There's a lake.

[00:14:11]There is a pit.

[00:14:14]Where is the waterfall?

[00:14:20]I reckon I'll find it eventually.

[00:14:26]There's a house there for sale.

[00:14:29]Or rent.

[00:14:31]Not a bad place to have a house.

[00:14:36]I said stuck here. And the land is for sale.

[00:14:44]But, will it become part of the waterfall?

[00:14:50]I DON'T KNOW. OH, MAN.

[00:14:55]I can see gray shapes lurking to my right.

[00:14:59]I can. Look.

[00:15:01]There are buffalo.

[00:15:04]Bill.

[00:15:06]Bill.

[00:15:08]Bill, hey, look up. He look, look, look.

[00:15:10]He know.

[00:15:12]Right, hang on a minute. I've seen a sign.

[00:15:18]Prak Spai waterfall.

[00:15:24]Who [ __ ] I'm going for mate? It's like a mud.

[00:15:30]Ah, don't tell me you got a pie. I'll be like this Look, look, it's a trail of mud.

[00:15:37]All right, someone's boot. Look.

[00:15:42]Ah, come on.

[00:15:46]There's a few chickens in there.

[00:15:50]No way. Someone live there.

[00:15:55]Ouch. You can hear his boom, boom, boom going.

[00:16:01]I'm riding up.

[00:16:04]I reckon this is the waterfall that I'm riding up.

[00:16:10]Food order.

[00:16:13]Reading the sign and I'm like, where am I going?

[00:16:19]Look.

[00:16:22]That sign is now 303 km back.

[00:16:29]There was a sign. 800 m it said.

[00:16:37]Ah, but wow.

[00:16:42]Do not recommend.

[00:16:46]So, why do I do it? In case I fall off.

[00:16:51]Feel like going in it. Have to go wow.

[00:16:55]Someone's hot. Wow, there is oncoming traffic.

[00:17:00]Right here. There was a man being in the waterfall.

[00:17:07]There's a sign something.

[00:17:12]So now, where do you go?

[00:17:15]I am at that crossroads. Look.

[00:17:20]I'm going to need both hands cuz the road gets sharp right here and I'm going to go uphill, so I'm going to avoid the ranch to my left.

[00:17:30]I will carry on to the right. Glad I've got a bit of Oh.

[00:17:37]Better hurry up before it starts raining again. I'm enjoying it being dry.

[00:17:42]All righty. I've ridden a little bit longer.

[00:17:47]Now, I have seen that there are masses of war bolts here.

[00:17:54]That's weird.

[00:17:56]That is weird.

[00:17:58]Ah.

[00:17:59]Over here, we have a sign >> [laughter] >> for the waterfall.

[00:18:17]Well, what can I say?

[00:18:24]Don't want to lead people astray, but where can I put the sign that way?

[00:18:32]So, if anybody's coming to the waterfall, you need to watch this vlog.

[00:18:40]Just to know [laughter] that that's not that way. It's It's down here.

[00:18:47]Oh, am I?

[00:18:49]I I don't think I've taken the horse down there. Just taken the I shot locked up.

[00:18:58]Is you right this toilet? Is you right in there? Toilet.

[00:19:02]So, at some point here, uh there would have been. That's why there's all plastic and everything here.

[00:19:11]>> [sighs] >> Cuz at some point somebody Wow, look.

[00:19:16]It's all abandoned. Would have had a drinks shop.

[00:19:21]Right here.

[00:19:29]Oh, can I be bothered to go down there?

[00:19:39]>> [sighs] [clears throat] >> I can't hear you.

[00:19:55]I cannot even hear any water.

[00:19:59]Oh.

[00:20:05]I'm humming and hawing. Give us a minute.

[00:20:09]Look how camouflaged our lizard is.

[00:20:15]Wow.

[00:20:23]Superb.

[00:20:26]>> [sighs] >> I have ridden down here.

[00:20:32]I was like, "Oh, I'll give it a go." But I've reached that point there where I can't go any further.

[00:20:37]There's no Wow, a little lizard.

[00:20:40]I could probably It's a bit of an issue if you get this section wrong.

[00:20:45]So, I am determined to see what this waterfall is like.

[00:20:58]It is now my mission.

[00:21:02]Oh, people have been here.

[00:21:04]There are footprints of people.

[00:21:08]I still can't cannot echo Got an echo.

[00:21:18]Cannot hear any water.

[00:21:28]Wow.

[00:21:30]It's a wicked track. Wow, lizards lizards keep running at >> [laughter] >> I can handle lizards.

[00:21:39]It's the other wiggly things that Oh, that freaked me out.

[00:21:46]Okay, okay.

[00:21:49]Wow. Oh.

[00:21:51]Oh, look at the tree everything now it's all got proper jungle.

[00:21:55]Proper trippy.

[00:21:57]Man.

[00:21:57]>> [clears throat] >> Wow.

[00:22:03]So, it's all proper wet.

[00:22:06]And I'm having a guess.

[00:22:10]Oh, mate this is a waterfall.

[00:22:16]Ah, yes.

[00:22:21]Oh, >> [laughter] >> it's not it's not falling a lot but that is it through there. I have made it.

[00:22:27]I have I come I come I saw I found a waterfall.

[00:22:32]I have indeed.

[00:22:34]And also pit.

[00:22:37]Ah, man and that is it. That is where the waterfall will cascade down there.

[00:22:41]But right now it's only the start of the wet season. Wow.

[00:22:49]Jesus. Oh, it's horrible being in the jungle something just flew in me lug.

[00:22:55]And I'm >> [laughter] >> you [ __ ] It's horrible.

[00:22:59]It's just like oh, look lovely in the all wet jungle. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you go in there.

[00:23:04]You go in there. You got to look at everything, man.

[00:23:07]Ah, all the Aussies be watching. Ah, yeah, it's just nothing, mate. It's just a bit of back bush.

[00:23:14]>> [snorts] >> I'm not going in. No.

[00:23:17]No.

[00:23:18]Oh, that is cool.

[00:23:20]So, there is a waterfall.

[00:23:24]As spectacular as it is, but it is here.

[00:23:30]Oh, [sighs] man.

[00:23:33]Was that worth it?

[00:23:36]Was it back?

[00:23:40]Da, da, da, da.

[00:23:42]Woah.

[00:23:44]I have, I believe, found some really steep, wet steps Woah, to climb up. Woah. To get a bit of shelter.

[00:23:59]I've just driven in to a little storm of rain.

[00:24:05]Wicked.

[00:24:07]Woah.

[00:24:09]And I'm not sure I'm heading to this beach down that track there. That's private.

[00:24:14]So, I've got to come around this way.

[00:24:17]And right now, I don't know where I am.

[00:24:21]Woah. Excuse me.

[00:24:23]We do have a little I've not seen a Rocky little Buddhist temple. I actually I actually look like Rocky.

[00:24:33]Woah.

[00:24:35]Okay.

[00:24:37]Time out.

[00:24:39]Let's see where I actually am.

[00:24:46]I hope I don't get down there and just don't look like I'm going to be able to, no.

[00:24:51]Mate, I reckon I might have to go all the way back that I'd just come.

[00:25:04]Hard day in the office today.

[00:25:08]That is. I've just left another little restaurant.

[00:25:12]Little place where I had to pull over. I was getting wet in the rain. So, I pulled over. I had another beer.

[00:25:18]I did so. I've just realized that you've had a few beers today, haven't you? I got yeah, I'm starting to feel it as well.

[00:25:25]And I'm now come back to my last and final resort, which is where I'm staying. So, that's where I'm going to make a vlog to end to end vlogs.

[00:25:37]The vlog to end the vlog. Now, there is so much construction being done right here where you come out of the quarry. I can't believe someone's just pulled up. He's lit a cigarette. I was then walking down to that podium.

[00:25:51]I can see a equal little puppy sniffing about for some >> [clears throat] >> something or other.

[00:25:57]Something will be built here.

[00:26:00]I reckon at some time.

[00:26:02]But just looking back of where I've been today, that right there is the Lancing Beach in that little cove in that bay there.

[00:26:12]And if you would look, you can still see seeing a beautiful skyline in the mist or the rain. So, we look down upon the future.

[00:26:24]These roads one day will be ash-filled.

[00:26:32]They will no longer be sandstone and chalk and sand. They will eventually could be 10 years.

[00:26:43]But eventually they will be proper roads.

[00:26:51]Port Eynon has got a future if it can sort out treating its tourists a lot better. Price fix. Oh man.

[00:27:00]So okay, something is being built here.

[00:27:03]The wall is built like all this. All this stuff is being graded out so they can build on top of it.

[00:27:09]You can see these little bungalows.

[00:27:13]Wicked area. Look, there's a little pond.

[00:27:16]Swimming pond maybe.

[00:27:18]Geezers working away building these are going to be little bungalows. They put all the crush in the bottom. Look.

[00:27:24]They'll end up like that. Area there.

[00:27:26]And they are tents.

[00:27:28]Can you see them?

[00:27:31]You can already come and rent a tent.

[00:27:35]All these new Wow.

[00:27:39]Fun places to get the tourist money out.

[00:27:47]Thing of it is when I went around the island it's it's all right.

[00:27:54]Vastly overpriced.

[00:28:01]Could kill it.

[00:28:04]Could. I bet it don't though.

[00:28:08]I reckon if I come back in 5 to 10 years, how many of these places that I've filmed today will I be filming for the abandoned channel?

[00:28:22]I I really don't know. I don't know. But I don't think Koh Rong is is I don't think it's got what the tourists really really want. I don't think they'll stay longer than two or three days.

[00:28:39]I have made it back to where I'm staying.

[00:28:45]I have found a restaurant far enough away from the burning embers of rubber and plastic. I have. It's a little bit noisy I know in the background. That is why I'm sitting this far away from where the speaker is. Right over there by the door. I sat right over here. I have ordered I've ordered the the food in here and the the beer draft beer is only a dollar in here. It's a dollar 25 in my skanky little place where I'm staying. This is Mama Coco restaurant right here.

[00:29:20]I'm towards the end of the beach.

[00:29:22]And she's got three apartments there.

[00:29:24]45, 50, and 65. Three people, two people, one people.

[00:29:34]Very overpriced at this this place. Tuk tuk could could tau or whatever it is.

[00:29:40]Katuush.

[00:29:41]Katuush.

[00:29:43]It's the most expensive area.

[00:29:46]It's the busiest.

[00:29:48]And it's the shittiest.

[00:29:50]But hopefully little restaurants are all right. They do steak. I've ordered pak kapow $4. Steak just $6. And ice cold draft at just a dollar.

[00:30:01]Touch it.

[00:30:11]That's what that is. Ice cold.

[00:30:14]I'm actually glad I've finished blogging today. It's been quite a tough one.

[00:30:18]Caught in three rain showers.

[00:30:20]Mudslide.

[00:30:23]Anyway, I've got to buy everything's done. Now I'm all back. My day is literally done. All I'm going to do I've got four beers sitting in a bag of ice.

[00:30:31]I have a bifter that I have rolled.

[00:30:33]Um I have some drink this, eat me dinner.

[00:30:37]Um I've not eaten yet today. Uh Uh, I was about to go in and have that beer down on my balcony and I thought, "Hang on a minute.

[00:30:46]I've not eaten anything. I was going to eat in my little restaurant where I'm staying.

[00:30:52]I had a jungle curry last night and it was all right. Great big chunks of beef.

[00:30:56]It was all right. Could have been tender, but it was all right. But as they're playing load of techno in there and there's a few people about. I thought, "No, no, I can't I I I I can't come in here and eat. I'll walk down the beach." So, this was my best beer. And you can sit at the front.

[00:31:11]Right here.

[00:31:13]See beer if you want. Beach view.

[00:31:16]It's all right.

[00:31:18]So, I hope you enjoyed my little little what I was up to today. That literally is it. Nothing else is going to happen except me going home. And hopefully, I'll have a good kip tonight.

[00:31:31]I hope I hope. Can't go to bed till about 9:00 cuz music's all on till then, but usually, it's now 6:00. Time I have my dinner and that. Time I get back, I'll sit there and drink four beers, smoke three joints. It probably will be 9:00 and I'll probably be knackered.

[00:31:48]And hopefully, I will get a good kip.

[00:31:50]So, next vlog on this channel is me Don't know. Don't know where I'm going from here. I don't know if I'm going back to Kampot or when I get to Sihanoukville. It's the only thing I know. I get the boat back to Sihanoukville and then from there, you can get a bus, taxi, tuk-tuk to just about anywhere in Cambodia. So, it depends what I've decided when I think about that on my balcony.

[00:32:19]So, cheers. I hope you have a wonderful day.

[00:32:27]It's good. Thanks for watching.

[00:32:29]Till next time.

[00:32:30]Au revoir.