After a long and not very pleasant bus ride we arrived once again in the crazy city of Phnom Penh. This stay was not intended to be a long one, so we headed back once more to the HRH Hotel. The staff here were very welcoming and recognized us from our previous stay. Unfortunately the room they gave us this time was nowhere near as nice as the previous one, so we stayed there for one night and moved to another hotel call Super Star, just down the road.
Having read our guidebooks we decided to book a bus for the next day to a town called Kratie where we could visit freshwater dolphins. We were getting different reports on how long this journey would take, some as long as 8 hours, but we prepared for a bus to collect us at 7am!
So the alarms went off at 6am the following day and we both began to get ready to leave. It was obvious that neither of us were in the mood for another long bus journey, so Adams skills came into play and again used a poorly girlfriend as our excuse not to get on the bus! The hotel staff were very kind and we even got our money back!
Having decided to start to make a move towards Vietnam, we needed to arrange to get our visas, as you need one before you arrive in the country. The hotel where we were staying provided a visa service, obviously for a good fee, but it did mean we didn't have to queue up at the embassy all day. The only drawback was having to hand over your passport, which did feel a little nervous!
When we received our passports back with our new Vietnam visas, we noticed that the 30 days that it is valid for begins when it is issued and not on the date of entry.
This meant that there was no rest for us, as we did not want to lose too many days from our visa, so we booked a bus to take us from Phnom Penh, through the border, into Vietnam and all the way to Saigon.
An early night was in store for us, to get a good sleep ready for our early bus to Vietnam.
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