We leave Ho Chi Minh City by bus for a 7 hour drive across the border into Cambodia towards the capital, Phnom Penh.
Instantly the people look different, the land looks different and the language is different! Stephen gets reprimanded at border control for saying “thank you” in Vietnamese and not the National language of Cambodia – Khmer. We escape a shock when the bus almost leaves without us on the border…
We are last through the border control point and find that our bus has driven away. Eventually the bus conductor realises and stops the bus driver from continuing off as we chase it down the road.
The land is very flat and very green!
People work out in the blistering heat.
There is a lot of rubbish around but the poor animals don't seem to mind 😦
Our bus boards a ferry to cross a section of the famous Mekong River, which stretches from Tibet to Vietnam.
As we near Cambodia's capital, it gets more dense but still as makeshift!
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