Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Holiday in Cambodia Part 8

The lady at our guesthouse was a bitch as we were checking out to go to Phenom Pehn. She was telling us lies about the buses so that she could get us on a bus that got her commission. Eventually we got a tuktuk to the train station (not much more than an empty lot with buses) and onto a bus headed to Phenom Pehn. The entire ride the TV on the bus was playing Khemer Karaoke Music videos. They were horrible.
When we got to Phenom Pehn we stopped in what just seemed like a random street, no bus station. We were immediately hounded by tuk tuk drivers (which is how it is getting off of any bus in Southeast Asia) We told them all that we had a guesthouse and that it was a short walk. We walked around the corner and had no one harassing us, it was awesome. There was a guy taking a nap in his tuk tuk, and we woke him up. He asked us where we wanted to go, we told him to take us to a cheap guesthouse.
5 minutes later we arrived at the 'okay guesthouse' It was alot more than okay when compared with the last guesthouse we stayed at--this one wasnt run by scum. We had an air conditioned room with 3 beds and a TV. (the beds were jammed in tight so it was as if it was one really wide bed)

However, whenever we left the guesthouse we were assaulted with offers for tuktuk rides. Steve went to go find an ATM (few and far between in the town) and was able to find a driver that spoke passable english. He also wasnt a brute about getting passengers, so we took a liking to him. He offered to drive us the next day and said "then you can tell everyone you have a driver" We thought that was a wonderful idea and told him to pick us up at 10 the next day.

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