Comments on: Kampot Cambodia, Lovely But Bad Internet!

By: Ken Weary

Ken Weary — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 16:32:40 +0000

I had a similar experience recently in Guatemala. It can be so frustrating when you have to unplug from the Internet and are not prepared in advance. Love your site.

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 18:35:06 +0000

Yuck I feel your pain as I work online too and so continue while traveling. We stayed at the Riverside in Kampot and had good internet — nice Australian owner too.

We went overland from Kampot to HCMC and got our visas in PP from a hotel/travel agent (more expensive but we didn’t want to trek to the embassy all day). It was a bit nerve wracking going overland last year as they had closed the border because of the Chinese issue and setting factories on fire in the Delta area. But the day we left the borders opened and there was no one there! We walked thru and met our minvan on the other side. A “doctor” had us sign a form saying we were healthy and he had a thermometer but didn’t use it. We paid him a small amount for that health check up:) Other than that an easy drive/

We had explored going by bus but with the border closings we heard they were rerouting further up and sometimes it took 10-12 hours with no toilets on board etc. So we chose to hire a private van for the 5 of us and I don’t remember it being very expensive overall (plus fast and we could stop whenever needed:)

By: emulsifiedfamily

emulsifiedfamily — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 22:31:01 +0000

Oh no!! How frustrating!! Hope the next location is better for that! 🙂

By: Talitha

Talitha — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 11:33:20 +0000

Hello there! (don(t know when you’ll read this though?!)
sounds frustrating … I agree that not having internet-access complicates life. We experienced it a bit in Swaziland, and it’s like eating soup with a fork : not impossible but very uncomfortable!
Please keep on whining, it makes me feel a little less jealous of your travels (behind my super-fast internet-connected laptop!) ;-))
I’d love to hear your boys about their cambodian friends. Maybe they can make a video together?
Lift up your spirits, Alyson, things will work out … eventually!
Talitha