bus ride from siem reap to phnom penh

 

 

 

 

Got to the "bus station" after a somewhat strange ride in an "official taxi" (proper licensed desk) from the airport. Few hundreds metres out of the airport, the driver stopped the taxi by the side of the road and started taking off all the taxi signs (including the one on the roof)!!! They were magnetic!!! I thought..."Oh-O"...We asked why did he do that and he tried explaining to us but we didn't understand. Oh well, we got to the "bus station" in one piece. Well, the bus station is really a dirt road with buses parked on one side of the road. There were numerous "mobile ticket sellers" trying to sell you tickets from different bus companies. As soon as the "official taxi" pulled into the dirt road, we had all these "mobile ticket sellers" all over the car. Finally decided on the bus to take...Waited for about 2 hours before the bus left (the mobile ticket seller told us the bus was leaving immediately)...As you can see from the pictures, the bus not only carried passengers but also transported a motorcycle!!! The bus ride was about 5 hours from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh and we had Cambodian music blaring out of the speakers all the way. Scenery is similar to Thailand...