dimanche 19 décembre 2010

Moving to sihanoukville

We planned from the begining to go to sihanoukville but we had to wait my visa extention in phnom penh.
Finally my visa was done so we went back to Phnom Penh to search it and took a bus, direction sihanoukville.

The Bus drive 4h ( 250km ) to reach sihanoukville on a correct road. Except one bike who almost died hited by the bus, and a stop to take a passenger who almost reversed the bus, nothing special happened ^^

The ticket is very cheap, $4, and the bus make a 30min stop to let you eat in a restaurant and walk a litlle.

The bus terminus is in the sihanoukville downtown and tuktuk are waiting for your arival. But if like us you don't know where you gonna sleep, just go to the bar next to the bus stop, they will give you the wifi access for a beer, and you can call the different guest house in the city ^^

We found 3 guest house who can give us a room for a long stay, but finally our tuktuk drived us to a 4th that he knew and it was the best one, so we booked our room there. The guest house is called G.S.T, located at the Occhuteal beach who's the most animated, so we don't have to take a tuktuk everytime, and the room cost 6$ a night. The price should be lower for a long stay, but we booked the room when it's the most expensive period : christmas and new year, so the price is good as for a short stay it's much more expensive.

The only problem is internet, the wifi is not available in the room, and at the restaurant, where it's available, the 1.5M bandwith is not enough for that many people ( Plus my laptop battery is almost dead and there is no power supply available ).

So i went out to collect the diferent ISP price list, and i found that a 3G usb key is the best choice. For 12$ you have 4Go of download allowed and a good bandwith ( ~300kb/s ). Just don't fall in the CellCard provider trap, they make advertisment everywhere but they are more expensive than Metfone, where i finally bought my 7.2M 3G card for 40$ with 500Mo free. It's working on a prepaid card system, so anytime you want you can extend your limit easily.

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