Kep Province

Kep a coastline visitor city found 173 Kilometers south west of Phnom Penh. Guests from Phnom Penh take National Road 3 by means of Kampot area or National Road 2 through Takeo territory. What's more, the train from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville stops at Damnak Chang Eur Station, around 7 Kilometers from the city. Outsiders originating from Vietnam can enter Cambodia by means of the Ha Teang Prek Chak outskirt checkpoint, around 40 Kilometers from Kep, or they can go by vessel from Vietnam or Sihanoukville to the Kep City Port. 

Kep is a little city. The shoreline, which is suitable for swimming; it just 1,000 meters in length, and the sand is not white as in Sihanoukville. Be that as it may, Kep is a major fish market. 

The city was established in 1908 amid the French pilgrim times. It was redesigned into a delightful shoreline resort in 1960s amid then-Prince Norodom Sihanouk's Sangkum Reastr Niyum administration. The name Kep is gotten from the French words le top, or cape in English. A cape is a state of area that just into water, particularly a headland critical for route. 

Khmer legend offers another clarification for the name. There once was a ruler named Sakor Reach who had incredible mystical forces. One day, Sakor Reach utilized his enchantment to spellbind an authority of Angkor Thom before taking the leader's steed and getting away toward the southwest piece of the nation. While Sakor Reach was unwinding at the ocean side, the leader's troops made up for lost time with him. Anxious, the sovereign all of a sudden bounced on the back of the officer's stallion. The stallion raised back, nonetheless, and fell on the sovereign losing its saddle1 all the while. The sovereign got back on the stallion and rode off, leaving the seat there. Thus, the region was called Kep Seh. Later it was abbreviated to Kep.