Blogs from Stung Treng, East, Cambodia, Asia - page 3

My journey to Stung Treng was pretty darn “exciting”. The bus was scheduled to leave at 6:15AM and I set my alarm for 5:30AM…which turned out to be unnecessary as the cicadas (maybe??) started to chirp around 4:45AM…definitely was not falling back to sleep. I had told the guy who served me my food the night before that I wanted eggs in the morning…well, they ran out of eggs apparently so I was stuck with some bread that I purchased on the street and while it was indeed tasty it was not enough for me. So maybe I mentioned previously that the road to Ban Lung was terrible…well guess what, it was just as bad on the way back…this time I took a real bus although this bus was not standard size by any means…and even ... read more

The final night in Si Phan Don was the best of the lot, a rainstorm clearing the air of the humidity and allowing some sleep. The trip to the Cambodian border was uneventful though having to pay for an exit stamp for Laos, then for a Cambodian visa-on-arrival, then for a Cambodian entry stamp, smacked of a rip-off. Despite the travel company knowing hours earlier just how many passengers needed to get from the border onwards, it turned out that the bus they had laid on was too small. After a wait, a saloon car turned up and the travel company agent asked for 4 volunteers. Reasoning that this could hardly fail to be more comfortable than the bus, LA Woman and I stuck our hands up. In hindsight this was a mistake. Firstly, there were ... read more