This is the part of our trip with things got a little sketchy. Back in Singapore planning the trip, it wasn't clear how we could get to Kratie from Siem Reap without going back through Phnom Penh and taking multiple buses. So, I arranged with our tour guide in Kratie to get us a driver from Siem Reap to Kratie. In hindsight we could have just asked the hotel in Siem Reap to arrange one for us and that would have been better. The tour guide in Kratie seemed to be a genuinely nice guy online (and he was in person). He was disappointed in the van we ended up with (as were we: it was old, not clean, it didn't have seat belts, and the driver was less professional than the one we had from Phnom Penh. BUT we got there safe & sound so in the end that's all that matters!). This was another 7-hour drive on bumpy roads with similar sights as the first drive.
A shoe-flower to start our morning.
Our driver did know a good restaurant to stop for lunch though! Once he was brave enough to try it, Henry devoured that chicken.
The view from our hotel in Kratie; this is not a typical tourist town which was fine. It gets enough through-traffic though that we were able to find good meal options for even the pickiest members of our group (everyone except Craig is picky!).
The Mekong River.
This is a clever & attractive way to re-use tires. (trash can)
The market.
I wonder what this restaurant & dance hall were like in its heyday.
The bank seems to be doing well.
The back of a school.
One of our rooms.
Bathroom; notice the shower is just part of the room.
Self-entertaining during some down-time in our room.
On the walk to dinner.
My Mekong Cocktail was pretty tasty! Everything here is US Dollars.
