Guess what, i crossed the border by land from Laos to Cambodia!! that's really awesome. ehhehe.. it's a crazy-adventure day maaaan...
First, Vafa the Canadian wannabe African dude didn't have a visa to enter Cambodia. we asked around but couldn't get an exact answer if he can get it at the border or not. in the end, we decided to just go to the border and get the visa. if can't, he can come back into Laos, but he's pretty much screwed lah. the border on the Laos side is called Voen Kham. unlike normal border - expected markets, busy street with people selling stuffs all over and taxis, motorbikes, trucks picking people up n down, Voen Kham was the QUIETEST border in the world. (to me at least) the truck dropped us in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of laowai, and a khmer guy in spec n nice shirts who speaks good English started telling us what to do and how much to pay. everyone else had their visas done earlier except for Vafa and another guy (the same dude we met at the beach). we thought we'll cross the border anyway. and the border was just one small dirt road in the jungle. no other cars, no other persons, except treeeeees.
when we got to the Cambodian side, there was a little immigration hut that has "Visa on Arrival" written on it, and a small gate overlooking a long stretch of dirt road. but it was wider. no one lives there, no bus station as promised, nothing. we got our passport stamped, vaf got his visa made with Ben, then the drama starts. there's about 10 of us in the mini van, everyone else that has visas travel with this agency except us, so when the specky dude quoted us the price to go with them, we thought that it was too much and yalah-we took our bags down and say we didnt wanna go! (in my heart I was like: there's NO WAY we could get out of this god-forsaken place.) we took our chances anyway. finally, the lady let us on with 100Baht each while the actual price was a few dollars.
From Stungtreng, we went to Kratie (another drama with the taxi driver), and from Kratie we went to Phnompenh. the original plan of going to Siem Reap straight didn't work out. there's no road there yet. Arrived at midnight last night, with an additional kaki Ben, who's also Israeli (wat coincidence), and today we each rented a bicycle and cycled around Phnompenh. believe it or not, I did it! in this crazy traffic! woohoo!!
can't wait for a nice south-Indian food tonight, been craving for it...
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