We waved the temples of Angkor goodbye and boarded an early morning bus to the central part of Cambodia, a town called Kompong Cham. Our plan was to cross the Cambodia-Laos border as soon as we could. It still took us almost 3 days to get from northwestern part of Cambodia to the border in northeastern part. Luckily, Cambodia has improved its roads substantially over the past 3 years, mostly because of the growth of tourism. Still, the national "highways" are of about the same quality as local roads in remote parts of Slovenia. We arrived to Kompong Cham after a 6 hour bus ride. The town itself was nothing special, but since we had to overnight there, we had a look around. Doing so, we met Mr. Wanat, a local teacher, who enjoys mingling with
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