Mekong Diaries: Day 57

Day 57

We spring out of the very comfortable folds of our beds at 4 am and polish our sleepy faces in readiness for Gordon and Verne. They are already waiting outside with a couple of Camrys, the national conveyor in Cambodia, (did you know that a Camry could drive up the side of a rain-soaked mountain, or ford a flooded stream? They can, it’s terrifying!).

We leave for the Kampi dolphin pools and are on the water well before the sunrise. It is chilly and in the darkness the water starts to glow with that deep indigo which signals the coming of the light, and in its beautiful surface we begin to make out the shapes of rising dolphins.

Mekong Diaries: Day 55 & 56

Day 55 & 56

We take the advice of our hostler and decide to avoid the added cost of a private Camry for the next leg of our journey, this time down the river to Kratie. Instead we book seats on a minibus, quicker and cheaper, or so we think. 12 hours later, having been shunted between several different mini-buses, and somewhere along the way lost completely our senses of humour, we arrive in port town of Kratie, just in time for the sunset over the wide Mekong.