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February 26, 2007
Just Left Cambodia (Joe)
We left Cambodia at about 6.30am on Saturday 24th February, heading towards Vietnam.
We booked to go all the way to Saigon wich will take four days.
Day 1
Left Siem Reap about 6.30 on a small bus from the town. No one had clue what was going on including the people running the trip, so we just followed on and were herded like cattle onto a bus heading to Phnom Penh .The journey took about 5-6 hours. We did stop once for some lunch at the side of the road and I tried some deep fried tarantula. It wasn't as bad as it sounds, just a bit crispy.
Once in Phnom Penh we had a few hours to have a look round and took a sun set cruise on an old fishing boat with three plastic chairs.
We then headed to the backpackers area of town to eat. The food was ok and there were lots of westen bars.
Day 2
Set off from Phnom Penh at about 7am and again we were herded on to buses. The journey was about 3 hours, this time to the river, where we checked on to a boat on the Mekong. The Mekong is massive it must be about 3km across at some points.
We set off down the river for about 3 hours . It was amazing being on a boat on the Mekong. We arrived at Cambodian border control where they stamped our passports and we got back on the boat to head of to the Vietnam border. The boat journey this time was only abou ten mins. Once at to border we showed our pasports to the officer who didn't care if the passport and the person where the same. Then at last some one stared to tell us what was going on. She said that our passports would take abou 30 mins to process so we could go and eat at her friend's cafe.
We got our pasports back and got on a different boat to head to Chou Doc which was about two hours away. The boat trip started to get really good now. After about ten mins on the boat we when down a side river. It was amazing to see all the houses on stillts and people living by the river.
We arrived at Chou Doc, not much here, just a small fishing port with not much else to to see but that was ok we were pretty tired by then.
Day 3
Left Chou Doc at about 7am. We stopped at a fish farm on the side of the Mekong. There were hundreds of fish of all sizes. We stayed here for a while before heading back to get a bus to take us to Can Tho.
Posted by admins at February 26, 2007 6:35 AM