A long night with a rough ride

Before boarding the night bus in Siem Reap we had not anticipated how rough our next eleven hours would be. At first we thought that we had been assigned the best seats at the back of the bus. We were told that these seats reclined all the way and provided extra leg room.

Due to the combination of pothole covered roads and completely warn out suspension the seats at the back of the bus had fallen apart over time. Every bump in the road jolted us and made the broken backrest shift out of place.

The water from the non functioning air conditioning system was giving Pär occasional showers throughout the night. Erika on the other was kept awake by the smell from the outlet of the toilet ventilation system situated right above her head. In the end we realized that despite the extra leg room we were given by far the worst seats on the entire bus.

When we arrived at 6am in Sihanoukville we were too exhausted to use our expertise bargaining skills to argue with the tuk-tuk driver who wanted six dollars for the short ride into town.