Young Western Tourists Enjoy First Tuk-Tuk Ride in Cambodia

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Re: Young Western Tourists Enjoy First Tuk-Tuk Ride in Cambodia

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Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 11:35 pm I prefer a real tuktuk to passapp, but the tuktuk guys who live across the road from me don't want to go out in the daytime now. They must be doing good business at night with the Chinese and casinos, because they are always asleep in the day, so now I call passapp when I need a tutktuk.
I was only using the neighbors' tuktuks because I thought they needed the business, (support your neighbors), but I've been over there twice to wake them up recently and now I understand. :BangHead:
Same story here..

The local Passapp guild moved in next door... 3 of them.

I try to ask them if they want my business but they never seem to - wierd.

When I walk the dog I see loads of them snoring away on all corners.

So I just dial up and one arrives from km away it seems.

On the bright side - the neighbors now regale me with their KTV style drunken singing at all hours...

Along with 'ladies of the night' visiting them and kicking up a fuss for one thing or another for that added entertainment bonus..

KoW indeed
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John Bingham wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 12:09 am If you scroll down on the PassApp page it has SUV, Indian style Tuk Tuk, Classic (saloon), and then just below that out of view is Khmer Tuk Tuk. It's good if you need to carry anything bigger than a goat.
It's good if you need to carry anything bigger than a goat.
Like a buffalo ?
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Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 12:42 am
John Bingham wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 12:09 am If you scroll down on the PassApp page it has SUV, Indian style Tuk Tuk, Classic (saloon), and then just below that out of view is Khmer Tuk Tuk. It's good if you need to carry anything bigger than a goat.
It's good if you need to carry anything bigger than a goat.
Like a buffalo ?

Like a Heffalump.
Silence, exile, and cunning.
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I always miss tuk tuk and passapp when in Vietnam. Why they don’t have it? Mystery. Come to appreciate it more in Cambodia.
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hunter8 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 7:03 am I always miss tuk tuk and passapp when in Vietnam. Why they don’t have it? Mystery. Come to appreciate it more in Cambodia.
Vietnam's streets are congested enough as it is....
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John Bingham wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 12:56 am
Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 12:42 am
John Bingham wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 12:09 am If you scroll down on the PassApp page it has SUV, Indian style Tuk Tuk, Classic (saloon), and then just below that out of view is Khmer Tuk Tuk. It's good if you need to carry anything bigger than a goat.
It's good if you need to carry anything bigger than a goat.
Like a buffalo ?

Like a Heffalump.
Like a Hippopotterpig from UK :shock:
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DaveG wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 8:15 am
John Bingham wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 12:56 am
Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 12:42 am
John Bingham wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 12:09 am If you scroll down on the PassApp page it has SUV, Indian style Tuk Tuk, Classic (saloon), and then just below that out of view is Khmer Tuk Tuk. It's good if you need to carry anything bigger than a goat.
It's good if you need to carry anything bigger than a goat.
Like a buffalo ?

Like a Heffalump.
Like a Hippopotterpig from UK :shock:
Ok, now you're just making it up... :D
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Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 11:35 pm
I was only using the neighbors' tuktuks because I thought they needed the business, (support your neighbors), . :BangHead:
LOL
One of my tuk tuk driver friends, a well-known well-respected German speaking one from the Riverside,
turned up with his family in Koh Kong one New Year.
Three SUV's, Three new year triple-priced best hotel rooms right on the river, and eating crab three times a day all holiday.
Brother is a CPP big boy in sihanoukville but i think my mate is the rich one of the family.
:facepalm:
So i don't "support" his business any more - i ask for free rides and to borrow money when i'm caught short in the big city.
chuckle
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