Last night wasn't a great sleep, when I know I have to get up I keep waking up every hour to check the time, and a guy kept coming in and out with his suitcase and making a bloody racket climbing up and down his bunk bed in the middle of the night!
We were up at 6am, trying to creep around to not wake anyone up. Scott is feeling a lot better but still not all there; so keeping fingers crossed he will be okay. We are changing buses at Phnom Penh anyways so at least we can get out and stretch!

The travel agents was only over the road and the run was barely in the sky by the time we had got there and sat outside, we were ment to picked up at 6.30am but that didn't happen until 7.10am (our bus was supposed to leave at 7am)
So this minibus took us to the public bus, an awful one like we had before coming from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh, but at least the seats were screwed firmly down!
The 5 hour journey went fast but the bus gradually got hotter and hotter, whether the air con stopped working or not but by the end we were all sweaty and sticky and getting all flappy about getting off.

First part of the journey complete, we had to change buses but from what we could make out there is only one bus to Kratie every day with the company so we had to have a minibus there. That's okay I wasn't bothered because we would get there quicker and there would be possible air con.
So we had a tuk tuk to the market where we got on our minibus. I spy with my little eye... Babies. They had better not cry for this 6 hour journey!
We got in a 10 seater bus, it wasn't so bad. Scott wasn't looking forward to this at all, being cooped up in a tiny bus.
It wasn't too bad when we first got in, we thought we had the entire back seat to just the two if us. But then it got worse... We didn't set off for at least an hour. We were just sat there waiting! The seats we were sat on you could only really get 3 people in there, no not in Asia. They take it to the extreme here! They put two adults and a baby next to me, I was fuming. There was no way I was moving and being crushed so I say there not moving a muscle so they were sat on each other basically. Found it stupd because the four seats in the middle there were two women and two babies and they were spread out the whole way there, try and tell them that this doesn't make sense or that we are squashed in the back? No! They can only have four people sat on that seat. Because that makes perfect sense! There were two people sat on one seat in the front with the driver, five people and a baby squashed in the front row seats and five in squashed in the back row seats where there should only be three people. These people do frustrate me sometimes, there is no common sense or simple thinking within them! They do everything backwards!!
So there were 18 of us in a 10 seating minibus.

The only good thing about the ride was that he could over take cars and lorries on the road and he was going faster than a 60 seater bus so we made time, and arrived at 5.30pm instead of 7pm!

The countryside was so picturesque, all the houses are on high stilts because they are near the mekong river so I guess in the rainy season the river gets really high.
It's very rural up here and all there seems to be is farming.
In the main town of Kratie there isn't much going on, it's very quiet and there aren't many hotels about just little guesthouses along the river front and old shabby buildings. This town is a lot more relaxed and had a laid back atmosphere, you get the feel that everyone seems to know each other.

Sarah and Mike are staying at the same guesthouse as us so we met for dinner at the restaurant in the guesthouse and had a few beers, we were all pretty shattered from sitting on our bums in a bus all day (because it's so strenuous) so an early night was on the cards again!