World Tour - Cambodia

Survived the border crossing into Cambodia and only got robbed of $2 by the corrupt police!!!!

I didn’t even try to argue! I saved the argument for the taxi driver who wanted us to pay $25 each ($200 in total) to take us to Kratie! What a total rip off. We ended up paying $13, still expensive but we had no choice.

Kratie is very pretty on the outskirts, but in the centre it’s very dirty and primitive. Yesterday whilst walking along the main street and looking into the shops I saw some kind of hospital. It had an open front just like a shop. There were children lying in beds with drips and allsorts hanging out of their arms. It was quite disturbing. It is a very poor place. Children under 5 never have clothes or shoes. I think that shoes maybe considered a luxury here.

I went to see the rare Irrawaddy dolphins, which live in the Mekong River . They swam right up to our boat.