Transport in Cambodia? yea right.
Cambodia. Traveling through the rough and rigid jungle roads during rainy season- IMPOSSIBLE. Why did we choose to be the dumbass backpackers to attempt this?
Here’s an excerpt from my journal…
6/23/2009
WHAT WERE WE THINKING?! TRAVELING IN RAINY SEASON IN NORTHERN CAMBODIA? WHERE GETTING FROM POINT A TO POINT B ON A SUNNY DAY TAKES HOURS, HOW ARE WE SUPPOSE TO DO IT IN A MONSOON?
I am writing while sitting on an old decaying palm tree trunk, swatting these annoying neon green flies that won’t stop biting me, and staring at the mess before me.
I feel my blood boiling. The Cambodians? Calm, cool, & collected. It is obviously a daily occurence for them.
I tried to get to the bottom of it and get someone to tell me what we were waiting for, how long, and what we were all going to do. I was told, “No one can go because the road is far to slippery and the bigger trucks and buses are sliding OFF the “ROAD”. We are waiting for a TRACTOR to come tow us all out!”
Until then, we sit here. Swatting neon flies. Staring around in Amazement. Avoiding the mud at all costs. & Sweating a lot. Oh, Cambodia.
