Wednesday 7th Early start, breakfast at 6:30am ready for 7:00am pick up. The pick up by tuk-tuk from the hotel is always included in the very reasonable price of the bus ticket (e.g. Siem Reap to Battambang $6) so you have to be ready at your hotel half an hour before the scheduled bus departure time. The bus normally departs from a dusty depot on the edge of town and each bus company seems to have its own depot. On this occasion the tuk-tuk took us to the bus company office just 500 yards away. Here they indicated for us to get on a local bus to take us out to the depot. They indicated that we should take our rucksacks on board, so heavily laden we mounted the busy bus and had to make our
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