Our bus wasn’t until 1pm so we had the
morning to do what we want. We didn’t really do a lot apart from eat breakfast
in a cute little café around the corner. We got picked up at 12.30 and was
taken about 100m down the road to be put on another bus, we could have easily
walked but who can turn down a free pick up, especially when you don’t know
where the bus goes from!
We went with Mekong Express who is
supposed to be the best company. It cost us $13 each, we had wifi and a small
snack. It was no Thai Airways but the journey was alright. They took our
passports and we paid them $25 to sort out our visa, the border was smooth
sailing and after hopping on and off the bus about 3 times in 5 minutes we were
ready and had arrived in Cambodia.
The bus then stopped for a half an hour
break, by this point or pretty much when any bus we’ve been on has stopped we’d
rather it just carried on. Back on the bus we arrived in Cambodia about an hour
and a half later than expected. Well… I say expected I mean the time we were
told. As usual they drop you really far outside the town/city you want to go to
so the tuk tuk drivers make money. We got in one and he wanted to charge us
$15, I got him down to $10 and knew we were being over charged but we had no
idea where we were, how much anything was worth and just wanted to get to our
room and grab some dinner. It probably was about the 9km he said because it took
us a good 20minutes to arrive at The Mad Monkey hostel.
Emily and Cara (the girls we had dinner
with yesterday) arrived earlier than us so we got some dinner in the hostel
restaurant and then went to the rooftop bar to meet them. It’s weird being here
and mostly using American dollars for currency, but as they don’t use coins
anything less than $1 you get in Cambodian money… so weird!
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