Arriving in Cambodia

At first Cambodia didn't feel any different from Laos but it was much flatter and the roads were a little less bumpy.  I was headed straight for Phnom Penh but we stopped at a really beautiful little place called Krati on the way down.  The driver drove straight into the middle of the town and round this tiny market square almost squashing the stores, we couldn't work out what he was doing but turned out his mate had a restaurant and hostel and he was trying to take us all there, very funny.  After an interesting lunch of packet noodles and vegetables we set off again.  The journey was only supposed to take a few hours but at 9pm we were still driving and still had the people that were headed to Siem Riep on the bus, finally we stopped somewhere (outside another hotel) and they got off to wait for another bus.  I think the idea is to make it as late as possible so that when they change buses people get fed up and just stay in the hostel and go in the morning, clever!   Finally we got to Phnom Penh at around 10pm that evening it was a very long day!  Not sure if it was good or not but when we arrived in the city another of the drivers friends met us off the bus and took us to his hostel which was very close and turned out to be on lakeside which is backpacker central and by that point we didn't care where we stayed!