Preah Sihanouk Province: While Sihanoukville has been developing infrastructure, the provincial authorities have been developing a new tourist destination – the new beach called “Madam Mao” – a public beach for all visitors.
According to Mr. Kouch Chamroeun, Governor of Preah Sihanouk Provincial Council, under the leadership of the National Committee for Coastal Management and Development of the Cambodian coastal area (NCDD), the Preah Sihanouk provincial government has decided to work o the area.
Trees have been cleared and work undertaken in improving the beach beauty by keeping it a beautiful natural space and serving as a public beach.
The new beach location will be called “Madam Mao Beach”.
The beach is located in line with the newly constructed “Lady Madame Mao” (the tree-lined road) in Kik Kiri Village, Bat Trang Commune, Prey Nop District, Preah Sihanouk Province.
It is a wonderful sight when you visit the new beach called “Madam Mao”. NKD
Would love to see the location on a map.
Otres 3 on Googlemaps. Look a bit south.
So a beach named after somebody who should hardly be seen as an iconic figure, having been one of the CCP gang of four during the cultural revolution and also wife to Mao Tse Tung/Zedong himself.
https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1977/5/2/madame-mao-purged-and-killed-but-does-that-make-her-a-bad-person
WRONG!
Yeay Mao or Lok Yeay Mao (Khmer: យាយម៉ៅ – លោកយាយម៉ៅ, Grandma Mao) is an ancient mythical heroine[1] and a divinity in the local popular form of Buddhism and Brahmanism in Cambodia. She is venerated mainly is in the coastal provinces of the country, especially along the road from Phnom Penh to the sea port of Sihanoukville, as well as in Kampot and Kep. At the Bokor Mountain in Kampot there is a 29 meters tall monument to Yeay Mao inaugurated in 2012, while there is a young version of Yeay Mao in the Kep Beach called Beautiful Lady (ស្រីស្អាត) or Sela waits for her husband (សិលាចាំប្តី), but that belongs to the legend of Mao looking to the west for her lost husband. She is considered the protector of travelers and hunters. Drivers still stop at her shrine along National Road 4 near Phnom Pech Nil to pay their respects and wash their cars with water from the stream nearby, as well as the monument at Bokor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeay_Mao