Qualla: Koh Kong Island https://qualla.com/koh-kong-island en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:38:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/1/0/koh-kong-island-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Koh Kong Island https://qualla.com/koh-kong-island Koh Kong Island: Introduction https://qualla.com/koh-kong-island/ Photo credit Richard Taylor from Australia, CC BY 2.0. No one is supposed to sleep here. Koh Kong Krao - Outer Koh Kong, as Cambodians call it to distinguish the island from the mainland town that shares its name - covers about 100 square kilometres of the Gulf of Thailand and carries 53 kilometres of coastline, and along none of it is there a hotel. The northern end is a military installation, and overnight stays are not legal. Boats leave Koh Kong town, cross in roughly forty minutes, and come back the same day. What lies in between is the thing that has become genuinely difficult to find on this coast: an island the developers have not reached yet.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/1/0/koh-kong-island-wp/w610-koh-kong-island-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Koh Kong Island: Cut Loose from the Cardamoms https://qualla.com/koh-kong-island/ Photo credit Richard Taylor from Australia, CC BY 2.0. Look at Koh Kong Krao on a chart and it reads less as an island than as a piece of the mainland that the sea got behind. The strait at its northern end, marked on old French charts as the Passe de Lamdam, is under 500 metres across; the southern tip sits less than four kilometres...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/1/0/koh-kong-island-wp/w610-koh-kong-island-cut-loose-from-the-cardamoms.mp3 0:06 2 full Koh Kong Island: Six Beaches and a Freshwater Line https://qualla.com/koh-kong-island/ Photo credit Richard Taylor from Australia, CC BY 2.0. The western shore holds six beaches, and most of them have a lagoon of their own sitting just behind the sand, fed by rivers coming down off the peaks. You can swim in salt water and rinse in fresh without walking a hundred metres. From October to late May the Gulf here stays mil...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/1/0/koh-kong-island-wp/w610-koh-kong-island-six-beaches-and-a-freshwater-line.mp3 0:06 3 full Koh Kong Island: The Ecoregion Holds https://qualla.com/koh-kong-island/ Photo credit Richard Taylor from Australia, CC BY 2.0. Koh Kong Krao belongs to the Cardamom rainforest ecoregion, and the monsoon blowing in off the Gulf keeps it in evergreen tropical forest year-round. Macaques move through the canopy, wild boar work the undergrowth, and squirrels are everywhere; overhead there are hornbills, myna...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/1/0/koh-kong-island-wp/w610-koh-kong-island-the-ecoregion-holds.mp3 0:06 4 full Koh Kong Island: A Decision Not Yet Made https://qualla.com/koh-kong-island/ Photo credit Richard Taylor from Australia, CC BY 2.0. The emptiness is not an accident, and it is not guaranteed. In June 2020 the Cambodian government stood up a committee under the Minister of Environment specifically to review and oversee construction and development proposals for Koh Kong Krao, because the island falls inside a ...

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