Taxi ride Cambodian style

I was in Kampot in southern Cambodia just relaxing, barely moving out of my chair for three days. Just looking at the river and reading my book and enjoying doing nothing. But I couldn't stay there forever so I decide to take a shared taxi back to Phnom Penh. The bus took five hours but apparently the taxis only take three. So the choice was easy.

Me and Meredith (a girl I met at the guest house) gets picked up and the car is empty. We had been told that it would be really crowded so we were a bit surprised. But of course, we spent about an hour driving back and forth and here and there picking up people. And at the end there were eight of us in the car. Meredith and I shared the back seat with two girls that sit making out basically the whole ride, and in the front there is the driver and three sweaty football players that came straight from a match. And yes, one of them do share seats with the driver (don't understand how the driver actually manages to drive, but somehow he does, probably not the first time he does this). And then, of we go.

We go for about 100 meters and then we stop. Oh no, not more people we think. But they were just buying fish. We made sure it was placed in the trunk and not in the car. And then we head of for real this time. Music comes on. A horrible high pitch female voice talk and sing and it's painful cus it's too loud. And then there is the honking. Every 10 seconds the driver honks. Great!

And then, after five hours we arrive. Dammit, we should have taken the bus!