The bus and boat we wanted weren’t
available so we had to go for the next best option, which probably turned out
to be the worst option! We were picked up at 8am for the 8.45 bus to Sihanoukville.
The bus wasn’t the best and the aircon was terrible but it was better than
nothing at all. We arrived at a café around 11.30am. Emily, Cara, Chrissy and I
decided we’d just wait on the bus, the driver came on and told us we needed to
get off so we asked him how long we were going to be here and he said
10minutes. A bit of time passed and we hit 45minutes since arriving so one of
the girls from the bus decided to go and find him and ask. He said 3, she said
3 minutes? He said no, 3! 3 o’clock? He said no, 3 mountains. She walks back to
us completely confused. We gave him 5 more minutes before walking over in a big
group to get this sorted. His English was terrible and so he found a woman who
could speak both languages to tell us what was going on. Apparently the
electrics on the bus were broken and we were waiting for another one, obviously
he never planned to tell us this and it was convenient we made it the whole way
to the rest stop! We refused to buy anything in this place and eventually had a
new bus with us at about 1.30!
We didn’t get to Sihanoukville until
5pm meaning we had missed the last boat to Koh Rong and had to stay a night on
the mainland instead.
Once again the bus dropped us outside
and we needed tuk tuks to get in. There were 11 of us by this point so we got a
good deal and got them to take us to the only place we had heard of. Luckily
Monkey republic had the exact amount of beds we needed. The room may have had
no windows or air con and felt like a sauna but it was a bed for the night. We
also rebooked our boat and sorted out our bus to go to Siem Reap, so although
the day didn’t go to plan it worked out alright in the end.
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