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Travel Blogs from Kratie, Cambodia
Beautiful Mekong Sunsets and Irrawaddy Dolphins
This is a top pick! ... but this was one expensive, uncomfortable minibus ride. Kratie is a small provincial town on the banks of the Mekong River in north eastern Cambodia. It is an ideal place to stop for a day or two on our journey to Laos. We are staying in the Oudom ...
Northern Cambodia - Kratie, Ban Lung & Laos border
This is a top pick! ... We met a guy called Simon on the bus who was travelling alone, so we joined forces to go for dinner - yummy Lok Lak, a traditional Cambodia dish made from beef and gravy, served with rice... yes, I have been eating the odd bit of meat again, as vegetarian ...
Visas and Elephants
This is a top pick! ... been great. While finding this out in the tour place we spied a poster for 'Nature Lodge' a guest house in Mondulkiri (East Cambodia) with cheap bungalows, elephant trekking, meditation and swimming. So great was the poster we booked a bus trip on the ...
Worst day so far on the road
This is a top pick! ... Guesthouse and Angkor Travel Agency on the southern bank. Lunch time and I'm upsold on a further ticket to second largest city in Cambodia, Kampong Cham (which is a lot closer to Phnom Phen for tomorrow's trip) as I'm making pretty good time. 13:15 - hop ...
Viva Cambodia (The Wild East)
This is a top pick! ... you will be inundated with hellos and high fives. Sometimes you really have to look to see where the hellos are coming from. If you ride around by bicycle you seem to get the most attention. On first impressions, Cambodia is much more lively than ...
Freshwater Dolphins
This is a top pick! ... 's cool, but i don't care. he also knew another mark strange (for those of you who know boris), who is a stuntman too. cambodia is the first country so far, with no mcdonalds or fast food (coca cola though), which has been really refreshing ...
The mighty Mekong
This is a top pick! ... to get our flight home on 26 november....or buy a new ticket! Going more rural tomorrow, up into the NE hopefully there will be internet access. Definately elephants, motorbikes and waterfalls all at 30 degrees! Did I say how much we are loving ...
Hello, what is your name?
This is a top pick! ... . Once upon a time there used to be over a thousand of these creatures, now there are only about 40 of them left in Cambodia. Our tour group quickly piled into two boats and set off from the river bank. We saw quite a few dolphins, but I really wasn't ...
An eye for the Irrawaddy
This is a top pick! ... taking a quick movie on my camera to capture the crazy situation I found myself in), and showed my ticket to the guy, explaining "Kratie, te Phnom Penh!". He babbled some Khmer to me, and pointed at a plastic chair in the shed. I went for my guidebook ...
Krattie: The elusive Irrawaddy Dolphin
This is a top pick! A quick stop on the way to Laos to check out the dolphins, nothing more to say ...
Dogs, Grasshoppers and Billboards
This is a top pick! ... heading for a place named Kratie. We were going there as we this would be the last place that we would stay before we headed out of Cambodia and into Laos. The bus took off, and we were on our way. A couple of hours into the journey, we had a meal ...
The Home of Irawaddy Dolphins
This is a top pick! 07:30 I'm up early again! Initially woken by the jangly music coming from the wat next door at 645, so then I had to get up. Down for breakfast, lovely French bread and tea. What I didn't want to find in my bread was the arse end and antenna of some sort ...
Carrying Cambodia
This is a top pick! Here is my collection of Cambodian Overloads, not as impressive as Vietnam, or maybe I wasn't as on the ...
Border crossing delights
This is a top pick! M writes...mostly. We had been forewarned that the border crossing into cambodia from laos could be hairy, or at the very least, expensive. It had only been opened for a year or so, and was a "dynamic" situation to say the least. So with a bit of ...
Phnom Penh then north to the border
This is a top pick! ... the city of Phnom Penh and so is surrounded by houses and restaurants which is a bit strange. When the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia to oust Khmer Rouge, there were 7 prisoners left alive when the Khmer Rouge fled in 1979. There were several ...
A Full day on the Bus Siem Reap to Kratie
This is a top pick! ... without. I went to bed, watching tv a while, glad to be lying down able to rest properly and get some sleep. Best: arriving in Kratie after a long long day Worst: nothing was that bad, I guess just being on the bus all day Beautiful: all the many views on ...
irrawaddy dolphins,khmer whisky and the blues bros
This is a top pick! ... in Kratie about mid afternoon, and decided to leave the dolphins to the next day, as there was time before the bus out. Kratie is a tiny place, everything is centered on the small market in the centre and to be honest there's little else there. I found a ...
They call him flipper!!!
This is a top pick! ... ) Irawaddy fresh water dolphins so we decided to jump on a bus and head north to have a look for ourselves! One thing about Cambodia is that there seems to be alot more rubbish on the streets than anywhere else we've been - Kratie was no exception! We had ...
Kratie
A great couple of days in this nice little town on the banks of the Mekong. We visited the nearby island for a slice of rural Cambodian life, played volleyball with the kids, chatted about the UK with some local monks and tried out some strange ...
Illusive Irrawadies...
... up near our boat or in the distance. The orange sun setting over the tranquil river was a picture in itself! Back in Kratie there was a wedding celebration in full swing. They had taken over the entire street leading up to our guesthouse and ...
Kratie und Umgebung
... (von einstmals mehr als 1000!). Um die Tiere besser vor dem Aussterben zu bewahren, wurde der Bootsverkehr zwischen Kratie und Stung Treng eingestellt und das Fischen auf diesem Flussabschnitt verboten. Nachdem wir die Delfine ausgiebig beobachtet haben ...
Alternative Route North to Laos
A couple of nights on North East Cambodia gave us a good glimse into real Cambodian life outside the main cities. The people were friendly (and less obsessed with selling you stuff) and Amy was happy because Kampong Cham is the home of many monkeys (one ...
Stopover on the way to the Capitol
We stopped in Kratie for the night on the way to Phnom Penh. See the Phnom Penh entry for ...
Into Cambodia
... that 7 hour boat ride crying her eyes out behind her sunglasses. And this is a scene that we saw repeatedly throughout Cambodia. Abject poverty. Gut wrenching hygienic conditions and pollution. Children forced to work to survive. And in spite of it all, ...
Kratie Kid
... . I was in my grey Ho Chi Minh t-shirt and some shorts. I thought, that can't be appropriate for a wedding in Cambodia.....I don't even know the people....we would be crashing a wedding. I said I'd wait with everyone's stuff whilst they went and checked ...
Apr 05, 2010
Welcome to Cambodia!
... say! After a fairly tortuous border crossing on a bus meant for 40 but slightly overloaded at 60, we arrived at Kratie, our first stop in Cambodia. Designed to break up the journey between Laos and Phnom Penh (which we've now changed a little anyway), we ...
A step back in time
... . I was quite sleepy so couldn't hold a good conversation at all! The rest of the afternoon I just read and chilled out Kratie style. However at about 6:30 we headed off to our authentic Khmer party. It was a leaving party for a volunteer Colette who was ...
Holiday In Cambodia
... point the custom agencies extorted a dollar out of us, but besides that crossing was a simple affair and soon I found myself in Cambodia. The bus dropped me off and three others In the Mekong town, Kartie. The three of us walked the Kilometer into town ...
