New innovative transport to Cambodia

We have travelled by many modes of transport, but not up till now in a sleeper bus Cambodian style. I naively imagined buses like the ones in Chile, Peru, and Bolivia with big, comfy, reclining seats. To get a better view, I asked for the top level.

My imagination clashed pretty harshly with reality. The bus is not a double decker. Instead, it squeezes in 3 rows of bunk beds! And we were on the top level, so I can't sit up stuck under the roof.

Never mind, there wasn't that much to see, as the road from Ho Chi Minh to the border is an almost continuous line of shops. That said on the Cambodian side, it changes to lush green countryside with occasional views of the Mekong River.

The journey in total is rather annoying as 220km takes over 8 hours, with unexplained long stops. The border added to the annoyance since they did not accept our e-visas, and we ended up paying $180 for sticky paper ones. Oh well :)

It's dark as we arrive in Phnom Penh. The first impression is that it's very different from HCM (Saigon). Let's see what the reality is in the coming days.Læs mere