Overland travel from HCMC to Phnom Penh - what are options?
Jul 16, 2016, 1:10 am
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I did it in a shared taxi in 1998...totally full, 6 people, one guy had to sit on the gearshift (it was an automatic). Road on Cambodian size was AWFUL then. There was the wait for the ferry over the Mekong, and the potholes were so bad that the taxi had to weave over both lanes of the road to avoid them. Thankfully not much traffic. They looked through every page of my passport twice at Moc Bai before stamping, and then everyone but one person got into a second taxi. Roads were much better of Vietnamese side but people drove like maniacs, so it was trading one harrowing experience for another. Women really looked beautiful in the ao dais (first time I had ever seen those).
Am sure conditions are better today.
Am sure conditions are better today.
Jul 17, 2016, 7:24 pm
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I did it in a shared taxi in 1998...totally full, 6 people, one guy had to sit on the gearshift (it was an automatic). Road on Cambodian size was AWFUL then. There was the wait for the ferry over the Mekong, and the potholes were so bad that the taxi had to weave over both lanes of the road to avoid them. Thankfully not much traffic. They looked through every page of my passport twice at Moc Bai before stamping, and then everyone but one person got into a second taxi. Roads were much better of Vietnamese side but people drove like maniacs, so it was trading one harrowing experience for another. Women really looked beautiful in the ao dais (first time I had ever seen those).
Am sure conditions are better today.
Am sure conditions are better today.
At least that's what I understand having never traversed the area.