Day 171 – Thursday 3rd March – Laos to Cambodia – Stung Treng

After 6 weeks in Laos, we’re now in Cambodia!! There’s Laos time and there’s snail time. It took us 5 hours to go approx 70km from Don Det to Stung Treng. 8am boat ride from Don Det to the mainland followed by a long wait on a dusty street outside a makeshift travel shop until 10am and we board a bus. Half hour or so later we’re at the Laos/Cambodia border. The bus guy says he can do our visas for us to save us getting off the bus and its quicker. Hmmm well it meant we didn’t have to move our bags off and back on like most people we saw but we were still there for over an hour and half. ...

April 9, 2011 · 2 min · karen