Today, Sunday 21st, we set out on our journey to Thailand. The bus journey was meant to be six hours long, but due to typical reckless Cambodian driving, it was only five hours with a pleasant ten minute stop at a restaurant and shop with clean bathrooms.
On arrival in Battambang, our tuktuk driver snatched us up quickly from the crowd of other drivers offering very cheap fares, compared to ones in Phenom Penh. It was only two dollars from the center of town to our hotel, RomChang, which is about a quater of a mile away.
RomChang has a very lovely, rustic feel to it, the rooms are spacious, the menu extensive, delicious and cheap. There is a pool table, free bikes and a tuk tuk service, adding to the homely atmosphere fruendly. They serve Khmer, Vietnamese and Western food, an all day breakfast and offer a huge variety of icecream shakes, smoothies ansd fruit salads. The staff are all friendly and helpful with decent skills in English, and the beautiful swimming pool located to the left of the dining area is salty, not chlorinated, making it much better for skin and eyes, and large with varying depths.
One response to “The first step”
Sounds good so far,enjoying seeing the photos, maybe speak tomorrow