Saturday, December 31, 2011

Ground transportation

When I passed through immigration at the airport, a driver was waiting for me to take me to the hotel. What he had was not a car or a van (like I expected) but what is known here as a tuk tuk. Think of a two-wheeled motor scooter pulling a two-wheeled canopied cart behind it.

Tuk tuks are the major form of transportion in Cambodia. Renting one is easy, and these are the only form of transportation that I have used since arriving here. Getting a driver and tuk tuk to take you to all of the temple site for a full day costs about $25. I've been sharing mine with two or three other people.

No seat belts, not much stability, and traffic of all sorts in the road makes for a dangerous ride.

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