1pm Right now I am sat in a roadside cafe somewhere in Cambodia where no-one speaks English. Our bus dropped us off here saying we had to catch another bus, but didn't say when ...
Getting across the border was simple, one guy collected all of our passports and visas and we walked under the Laos border into no mans land, then limboed under the border crossing to Cambodia. Once in Cambodia, however, we had to wait for an hour to get our passports, then another hour for the bus to turn up. 30 minutes in one minivan and we were told to get out (at a petrol station in the middle of nowhere) and get on another bus that was already full. 10 minutes on that one and we got dropped off here ... hopefully I'll make it to Ban lung tonight!
2pm Just been told there is a bus from here to Ban Lung in 2 hours, as long as there is space and they accept our tickets it should be ok. would have definitely been faster to hitchhike...
4.30pm There were some busses that arrived but none would take us .... first got told 3pm, then 4 now 5. If one doesn't take us by 5.30 I think we're going to have to hitch. A foreigner arrived on a motorbike and let us use his phone to call the office number on our ticket but no,one on the line spoke English... he also told us we are 125km away from Ban Lung and it's one road that goes in that direction from here... Shouldn't be too hard :-)
5pm woohoo! we are on a bus. didn't want to take our tickets because they were from Laos but we convinced him and are on. boom!
7pm Made it in the end. 4 hours late and minus 2.5kg of washing I left in don det, a cushion that fell off the roof rack on the first minibus and my neck pillow that I left on the 2nd bus but other than that safe and well!
Getting across the border was simple, one guy collected all of our passports and visas and we walked under the Laos border into no mans land, then limboed under the border crossing to Cambodia. Once in Cambodia, however, we had to wait for an hour to get our passports, then another hour for the bus to turn up. 30 minutes in one minivan and we were told to get out (at a petrol station in the middle of nowhere) and get on another bus that was already full. 10 minutes on that one and we got dropped off here ... hopefully I'll make it to Ban lung tonight!
2pm Just been told there is a bus from here to Ban Lung in 2 hours, as long as there is space and they accept our tickets it should be ok. would have definitely been faster to hitchhike...
4.30pm There were some busses that arrived but none would take us .... first got told 3pm, then 4 now 5. If one doesn't take us by 5.30 I think we're going to have to hitch. A foreigner arrived on a motorbike and let us use his phone to call the office number on our ticket but no,one on the line spoke English... he also told us we are 125km away from Ban Lung and it's one road that goes in that direction from here... Shouldn't be too hard :-)
5pm woohoo! we are on a bus. didn't want to take our tickets because they were from Laos but we convinced him and are on. boom!
7pm Made it in the end. 4 hours late and minus 2.5kg of washing I left in don det, a cushion that fell off the roof rack on the first minibus and my neck pillow that I left on the 2nd bus but other than that safe and well!
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