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We had a great time in Phu Quoc island. Very relaxing. Net some great people and tried the hot pot style dinner which is a pot brought to your table with a soup in it and you boil it and throw in the meat and vegetables they bring and cook it yourself then of course share with about 4 people with rice. Lots of rice with every meal of course! It was good.
We also went scuba diving and snorkeling that was a lot of fun ! Lots of very colorful fish and a great day on the boat !
So now we leave Phu Quoc island and head for our journey to phnom penh. We went through a travel agent here in Phu Quoc. So we have to take a bus from our hotel to boat. ( superdong ie super fast out if control can't relax for 2 hours roughest boat ride ever lol ) from there we follow the Asian man with our name on a sign in his van to where the bus will pick us up to get to cambodia. As time goes by more white tourists join us. And like usual run into a few that we've seen before.
So this is where the funny story begins... As we all fit into this nice coach bus to drive to the border when we arrive we have to switch buses ( they usually do that at s border so were thinking ok no big deal -- not like we have a choice anyways ) so were at the Cambodian border. Which you can just completely walk through and not even get stopped haha. Our bus driver gives our passports to one of the guys on the bus -- I guess he looked trustworthy! We get our visas stamped as we walk on very dirty dirt roads from one shack to the next as they don't really even look at us just stamp and continue chatting amongst themselves. Most slack border we've crossed that's forsure!
So ok great we've got our visas yay were on our way to our next nice coach bus for the next 5 hour drive -- then we were pleasantly surprised to see what we were actually all going in. So picture a small old van with about 9 seats no extra cargo space at all plus there was 5 locals in the van already and they wanted to fit the 9 of us in this van and so they are strapping our 9 huge pieces of luggage out the back of the van obviously they don't fit so they are planning on tying our bags to the can with a rope then leaving the back open. Hahaha so we're all like what the hell are you guys doing there's no effing way! For one the roads are all dirt so we would be eating dirt for 5 hours as it comes in the back. Our bags would be covered in dirt and probably loose a few because they drive like maniacs and they're barely strapped on. Then next fitting 5 guys 6 feet and taller plus 4 girls and 5 random family members clearly just hitching s free ride that were paying for. Like screw that !! We were pissed ! So after all of us spoke saying no way they kicked the family members out. Well 4 of them. So we all fit in ( kinda) and our luggage was in the back with the back actually closed. We head off and realize no AC for the trip and along the way the driver made a few more stops to pickup MORE people. So we let one in and the next time it happend we locked the damn door and were like yelling at the guy. Ugh lol they wouldve packed about 25 people in this van if we let them ! Welcome to Cambodia! Lol
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