World Wellness Weekend: Three Days to Slow Down on the Kep Coast

From 18 to 20 September 2026, Kep West Wellness turns the pier, the garden and the dining rooms of Knai Bang Chatt into a single, unhurried invitation: come and remember what it feels like to have nothing to do but breathe, move and eat well by the sea.

Sunrise session on the Kep West pier

There is a particular quality of light on the Kep coast just after six in the morning — soft, low, the colour of weak tea — and it is in this light that Kep West Wellness will open its first World Wellness Weekend, a three-day programme built around the simplest possible idea: that wellbeing is not a product to be purchased in a single session, but a rhythm that needs a few days to settle back into the body.

World Wellness Weekend is an international movement, marked every September in cities and retreats around the world. Kep West Wellness — the wellness arm of Knai Bang Chatt, working in partnership with The Wave and The Strand — has built its own version around what this stretch of coastline already does best: quiet water, old rain trees, food that tastes of where it was grown, and enough space between activities to actually notice all three.

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