As with our Laos trip there has to be
one day when all you do is travel from one place to another. For the
river cruise this was it.
We departed the Phnom Penh port at
about 9:30am and cruised down the Mekong towards the Vietnamese
border which we reached at around 3pm. We had been told our
passports had been cleared with Vietnamese visas included but we
still hadn't seen them. I figured the cruise director would have been
in a bit of a panic if we hadn't been able to cross the border
successfully. He wasn't and we did.
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| Preparing to depart |
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| Mekong (right) meets Tonle Sap (left) |
So it was a nice lazy day on board
watching the river traffic gradually increase once we'd crossed the
border. The difference in type and quantity of the traffic was quite
marked.
The afternoon was relieved by a visit
to the engine room and wheelhouse of the riverboat which broke things
up a bit.
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| Engine room |
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| Wheel house |
Otherwise, it was snooze time, and
reading time, and time to complain about the wi-fi which had become
rather flakey and which was destined to disappear almost completely
over the next few days.
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| Mekong sunset |
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