Kampot, four hours south of Phnom Penh and it's a very, very strange place indeed. When it was built by French colonialists in the 1900s it must have felt prosperous and rather pleased with itself. Between then and now the place has been abandoned and now is being partially re-colonised by locals and a few lost tourists.
The town has a collection of faded boulevards and a riverside promenade where you can sit in the evening and watch the sun disappear behind the low hills on the other side of the river. It also has an abandoned cinema built in the art deco style and a garish nightclub on the river front, blue with multi-coloured flashing stars around the door. Sihanoukville, 100km further along the coast, is the beach capital of Cambodia but this place has an easy charm and there are things to see and do in the surrounding countryside.