Koh Tonsay (Khmer: signifying 'Rabbit Island') is situated around 4.5 Kilometers southwest of Kep. Visitors are attracted to the two white sand shorelines, and the ocean is shallow and fitting for swimming. At the ocean depths are a mixed bag of corals, ocean creatures and plants which pull in analysts and scientists.
The name Koh Tonsay is gotten from the word Rumsay. While attempting to keep away from the authority's troops, Prince Sakor Reach became sad on the grounds that his own troops started to tire. He drove his remaining troops over the ocean to an island before Kep city, where the troops spread out. In like manner, the island was called Koh Rumsay, Koh Ormsay, Koh Ornsay, and Koh Tonsay, as it is known today. Another variant is that, as indicated by numerous local people who spent there youth in Kep before 1975, the island was already called Koh Antai. There is no clear significance for this word.
Koh Tonsay is 2 square kilometers in territory. Amid then-Prince Norodom Sihanouk's Sangku Reastr Niyum administration, it was utilized as a spot to restore offenders, who were additionally used to guard the island. Steed truck ways and wooden, covering roofed motels were likewise developed amid this time. The greater part of this base has been pulverized by climate and many years of war. Today Koh Tonsay is a noteworthy vacation spot for Kep. There speak the truth 8 khmer run essential visitor houses and around 5 eateries, serving primarily new fish like crabs, shrimps and fish. Amid the day it can get truly occupied with day sightseers, which leave around 4pm, so for the dusk there are just a couple of overnight individuals there. Power runs just from 6-9pm by generators. Water can run short amid the dry months (Dec-Apr) and longtail vessels with huge water tanks are supllying the interest.
Once Cambodia's most prominent and prestigious shoreline town, Kep has fallen on difficult times as of late. From the mid 1900s until the 1960s, it was a flourishing resort town for the French and Cambodian first class.
A noteworthy misguided judgment about Kep is that amid the Khmer Rouge years, a lot of Kep's French frontier time manors and estates were obliterated. Indeed, neighborhood occupants, needing cash and nourishment, stripped down the manors so that they could trade all these profitable parts in Vietnam for rice and money. A significant number of Kep's manors are surrendered, yet a portion of the town's previous quality is still clear.
The sea is lined with wide walkways and vast statues. Lord Sihanouk fabricated a home sitting above the Gulf of Thailand, yet it was never possessed and now sits unfilled.
A cleared street associate the town with Kampot. Kep's shorelines are for the most part mangrove and dark shake as opposed to the white sands ofSihanoukville, in spite of the fact that a shoreline nourishement with the white sand of Sihanoukville has made the shoreline more extensive and more clean.
There are currently more than 60 guesthouses, resorts and inns in Kep. It is right now one of the speediest creating touristic regions in Cambodia with an attention on mid-extent to top of the line organizations
