Laos to Cambodia (16-18 April)

Managed to get transport over the border on the Laos equivalent of New Year's Day before our visa expired, though only as far as the unattractively named Stung Treng. Next day an 8 hours on the bus, mostly sat on plastic seats in the aisles whilst entertained with Jackie Chan movies and Cambodian stand-up comedy videos. At Kompong Cham overnight, had the luxury of a tv in our room: Rory watched football and James Bond films for so long that by the time we went out for dinner at 8.30 nearly all the eating places had closed, apart from some grubby places selling rice soup (like watery rice pudding) and offal curry (mmm...). Next day, all the buses were sold out but managed to get a seat in a minibus with about 25 people crammed into 12 spaces. We were lucky though, most minibuses had 20 on the roof as well: we only had 2.