Perhaps someone can fill in the exact name of the "waterfall" or rapids just outside Kampot.
This used to be a nice little spot for lunch, with little bamboo platforms down by a rocky, fast flowing but shallow section of river, ideal for just taking a cooling dip, and a picturesque rope suspension bridge across it.
As I recall, it also used to be free.
Now the road to it is hounded by an official and a policeman demanding money for a "ticket", a couple of dollars for a car, and for each foreigner.
And when you get there, there is barely any water at all, it's a fetid creek, thanks to the dam they've built or are building, quite unpleasant, I can't see that anyone would want to spend any time there at all, we just turned right around came straight back, $5-6 poorer.
The guesthouses all seem to still be advertising it as an excursion though.
its called teuk choooo. which simply means rapid water. its dry because its dry season. the dam isnt yet finished,so has no influence on it,yet. the guesthouse owners,or some of them,dont care if their is no water,as long as they can get you to pay them for the trip. this is cambodia remember. its always dry between approx december/jan-may/june,dry season.once the dam is finished,one would guess that their will be water all year round,so as to keep the turbines turning. the 2 tow rags who charge you money on the road,have been doing this for a while. usually only weekends,but maybe full time now. one of them works for the tourist office,charging foreigners large amounts of wonga for tourist and business licences in kampot. they also dont give a toss whether or not their is any water.your enjoyment is not in their interests. they just want the loi. and thats teuk choooo. come back in june,when it should be nice n wet again.
I was there a couple of times last week and was not charged a dime to travel along the road. There is no water running through them as reported.
I went up and into the hydro dam facility and it appears to me that the dam wall is finished. Tried having a look around a bit more but we were told to leave by AK47 toting police which we did do.
Devon