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| Email #2, Jan 08, 2000 |
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Part 1-Mekong Delta Bus from PP to HCMC: From Capitol GH $6 (I think also from Narin's GH). Arrives at Sinh Cafe in HCMC. HCMC Mekong delta: |
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| Email #1, Dec 06, 1999 |
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Visa: Can be arranged with travel agent for 1000B. Siem Reap: Heaps of guesthouses, if coming by backpackers' pickup truck, most likely to be dropped off near a guesthouse. I stayed at Green Park GH at #182 for s$3, d$4, very clean and friendly. Moto for $6 a day, extra $6 to go to Banteay Srei (which is beautiful, and the road there going through villages is also very beautiful), and $2 (?) extra for Phnom Krom, which is a temple on a hill near Lake Tonle Sap (the temple isn't worth it but there's a nice view). Internet seems to be now only available in a place called abc (don't remember where, it's where the locals use computers), very expensive - $3/5min, 13/hour. Boat to Battambang is highly recommended, as it goes through BEAUTIFUL lake and river with stilthouses and boat houses and it's very interesting to see people living in the middle of the lake... ride costs $13. Sorry, can't remember the name of the place I stayed at in Battambang, there are a few ok places near the market. Got moto to take me around to see the countryside for $5. Very beautiful. Some hills (a rare sight in Cambodia) with monasteries. Pickup truck to Phnom Penh: $5 in the back (maybe I was ripped off though), hard road, familiar scenery of rice fields and villages... Phnom Penh: 8am-noon.Kampong
Cham: Boat from Kratie to Stung Treng - 25,000R, about 6 hours. First part is boring - Mekong is wide and muddy. North from Kratie it is full of rapids and eddies and whirlpools, small islets with dense vegetation and wild jungle on the banks Stung Treng: - VERY beautiful. I stayed at Sekong GH for $3 single, which was ok, not the cleanest though. Other guesthouses I've been told of - Star GH in Kratie and Amatrax GH in Stung Treng. Also heard there's a place where you can spot Irrawady dolphins in Kratie. Stung Treng
to Ban Lung: I took a
4x4 pickup, the center of the Rattanakiri province. 40,000R in
the front or 35,000R in the back (you'd have to be insane to
go in the back!) on a VERY VERY VERY bad road, far worse than
the road from Poipet to SR! I don't think this journey is possible
in the wet season. Road goes through very beautiful scenery and
takes at least 10 hours (depending on how many times you get
stuck on the A word about Rattanakiri - This place is so wonderful! Both laid-back and adventurous. Hills covered with jungle with waterfalls and hill tribes and beautiful sunsets. In Ban Lung, you're most likely to encounter Mrs. Kim as you arrive (no matter how you arrive - road or air), which owns and runs the wonderful Mountain GH and Mountain GH 2. Really nice and quiet places, rents out motorbikes, Mountain GH 2 also has a good restaurant. Bargain for the prices for accommodation and bikes (I swore not to tell how much I paid...). Also gives a nice map of the area with all the attractions. There are two very beautiful waterfalls, a volcanic lake, and lots of hill tribe villages around, and everything up there is very beautiful, very different from the rest of Cambodia (which is flat and irrigated), it's all hills and wild jungle.I decided to cough up a few extra dollars and fly back to PP for $49 + $4 tax (from PP the tax is $10). Phnom Penh:
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