Tuesday, December 12, 2006

What Happened To Kate From Kate's



So, today was the first big day of travel from Bangkok to Siem Reap / Angkor, and it was parallel with Hape Leon 7 days Towards Santiago de Compostela. Both are very entertaining.
We have made it very convenient as Anja and I had explored before 2 years of the Tour, this time we knew how to do it better. So we ordered a taxi in front of the door of our hotel, a large Isuzu terrain vehicle, which provided us with our luggage Four sufficient space. Silke with her flea market experienced suffering face turns out to be optimal for Unterhaendler if the prices go our transfers. I have to pretend your just an impossible target price and it creates the maximum approach to that price. So we head for 2600, - baht, 65, - €, from Bangkok to Aranyaprathet, the border town of Poi Pet in Cambodia over to enter. Perfect transfer and very good timing. We are at 11:45 am at the border and it took us about 30, - € tasted more like about 6 hours of taxi / bus transfer we had planned. It sure is not getting any younger and I knew from experience that comes the hardest part of the trip until now.
next optimization in the travel plan is a young man of us decrease our luggage and tagging along with a wooden cart next to us and transports the entire luggage. Him we are about 100 - to 60 - down baht and he makes the business of his life. Since we are very early in it, little is happening on the border. Not a single tourist, and only a few locals who queue but not anyway to our desk. After an hour we are
in Cambodia and I try only one to organize one of the now illegal, private taxis. Immediately, I'll find it, but the Toyota Camry seems too small for four people plus our not inconsiderable luggage. As the cars today are all umgeruestet on gas and have therefore lost much of your trunk, it does not look good and we have to take 2 taxis moeglicheerweise. Therefore, we take the free shuttle to the state of public taxi mafia, here you have offered us a bigger car. Of course, the taxi mafia in the same car I had I was beginning to think again on gas, but he is 60, - USD cost of the first car - USD instead of 40. Now, unfortunately, we are 2 KM away from our first offer and no one has the desire Luggage to carry back again. On price negotiations, the criminals can not intervene and we put our backpacks and strap run 50 meters to the next bar, a garage with refrigerator and gas grill. We note the taxi agent no more, who has now settled beside us drink a Coke and keep us excited. Silke get your target price to 55, - €, out of principle, we again shouldered the luggage and will be doing those left were to go than we do. The taxi agent is nervous and provides supply us with a discount of 5, - USD, after which he declared Silke very professionally, that this is not enough and he is only 50, - USD gets. After a brief back and forth, he seems to really believe that we are ready for our luggage to the limits to wear, it can be 50 - a USD. But now we have the next problem, how do we get all the luggage in the car?

So now I was only once and have a delicious meal in the tea. Anja had a report in the B (F) rigitte the Blue Pumpkin discovered, so if your time comes to Siem Reap, highly recommended. Delicious fusion, Khmer and Western food.

but assured to have more later, we're still at the taxi stand in Poi Pet, the taxi driver are the same, of course they run the Buisiness for years and it was not a problem to stow away the luggage in the trunk.
what you think.
After a couple of expenses among all forces had put my backpack in the trunk, he was full. With great difficulty they still receive Ralfs kite next to it but then layer. Now they have proposed to us to lay the rest on the passenger seat, Ralfs kiteboard to use as a backrest, then we should get back to fourth on the Rueckbank. Impossible. The Cambodian give up. So
place to Ralf and I first have to hand, and group the luggage in the trunk, Anja always joked about my arts to pack something and store, but here it has once again helped. Without further ado, we decompose Silke's backpack, while it is constantly concerned about the fall off your panty liners and the taxi driver to fill embarrassed we could make Ralfs kite upright, my backpack next to it and fill the gaps with Silke disassembled backpack on. Then Anya's backpack comes in the front footwell and Silke is folded in the front seat. Now only the Kiteboard behind the front seats terminals and we have really good place. The taxi driver had given up and can hardly believe their luck that they can drive us after all. We immediately set off. Ralf and Silke are firmly convinced of it that I make a joke when I saw the disastrous condition of the road as a good stretch call. The road is made of piled up some holes around the tar is. Such a thing is with us not even a dirt road. So it goes
the first 1 1 / 2 hours with an average speed of 60-65 MPH towards Siem Reap. Then we have to refuel, which means that we drive through the gas back to the trunk must ausrauemen. But well, fueled, in a criminal gas station and on it goes. Now comes the bad part of the road. line to line it passes to the exit and you can see from afar the sudden no black tar spots are more concerned about the potholes, but the track only consists of red dust. Ralf groans, Ok, Ok, you have not exaggerated and the driver sped up over the runway to fly. This route is about 2 regular lanes wide, it is but part way down to 3 cars side by side, the bikes and scooters do not count. Silke
the well-maintained even on the Thai highways was bad, their circulation now and forget the noble Blaesse is red in the face of panicked given way. Of this, she is like a broken cookie in the front seat, feet on the windshield, the backpack in the knees. The car is so durchgeruettelt that would move any faster than walking pace his own car over that road and we drive to the tip 90 KMH. But everything good has an end and as the route is no longer an adventure but laesstig it's finally over and we arrive in Siem Reap. Nice Guest House, only eat something, it's 17:30 and we have eaten nothing today, 2-O fresh juices for a beer, life is beautiful.
backpack clear up, shower and then into the city. The other three can be massaged for an hour, I write something on the trip report and save the money by tomorrow a Flight in a helicopter over to make the temples, provided I can shoot it. Then, as I said to the Blue Pumpkin, a lounge bar all in white with excellent food and now it's off to the Hela.
For tomorrow we have booked a driver takes us to the temples, I will go even at 5:00 on the clock sunrise, others can pick up after breakfast by the driver.
See you then.

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