Getting around

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Re: Getting around

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Anchor Moy wrote: Wow. Crossing the road or on the pavement? Crossing Monivong can get quite hairy - feels like suicide at times - especially when you get stuck in the middle of the road and you try to make yourself really really thin so you don't get hit, but at the same time you want to look big so everyone can see that you're there.

There are various road-crossing techniques - the one where you take a deep breath and walk without stopping and trust that the trafffic will drive around you - there's a variation on this where you hold up your hands like a stopsign as you cross - you can also run for the middle line and hope for the best (see above) - or you can wait for the traffic to stop at a red light, but this is not a very successful technique. :popcorn:
Any preferences?
the most dangerous thing about crossing the road here is the urge to stop and wait for a clearing. just keep going, they anticipate you and go around you. but if they swerve to go behind you as you cross and you just stop, you're now in their path.
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IraHayes wrote:What's your preferred method of day-to-day transport?
Moto, for sure.

I drive like a freaking maniac sometimes, and other times I drive like Miss Daisy. Or whoever drive her around, you know what I mean.

Driving in Phnom Penh is as safe or as dangerous as you want it to be.

Give it a shot! I love driving a moto there more than in any other city I've been too!
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Re: Getting around

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A jewelled palanquin or an elephant would make a good change.
preceded by stout chaps with bullwhips to clear a path.
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Ditto for the moto, as much as I feared the traffic here at first, it is one of the things I miss the most when abroad now.
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StroppyChops wrote:Living the dream, brothers, behold The Bumblebee:

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This is our favourite city transport - it's ours, it's registered, and we're licensed to drive it. Can't express how much fun this is to drive in peak hour traffic in Phnom Penh.
I get to sit in the back and wave/smile at all the stunned Khmer as we drive past, it's a lot of fun!
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