The bus from Saigon to Phnom Penh never seemed to leave the city for the first couple of hours. Eventually though, the border emerged and our passports were whisked away by a little man on the bus. When we got to passport control, they still hadn't been processed and once this was done they reappeared in quite a random order. Ours had been separated by quite a lot of other passports. Soon enough though, we were through and into Cambodia we went - for about a kilometre. That took us past the numerous casinos (gambling is illegal in Vietnam!) and to a little roadside restaurant where, of course, we stopped to eat.
A couple of hours later, after whizzing along roads incredibly devoid of motorbikes, we reached the mighty Mekong River. Nobody has yet thought to build a bridge across and so we had to go on a small open ferry. We stayed on the bus which saved us from the rain.
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