Cheap service with crazy drivers. Will get you there but don’t ask me how
Virak Buntham Review There is no one faster on the roads of Cambodia than a Virak Buntham driver, fact. You put a Virak Buntham with a Toyota Hiace into an F1 championship race, I know who I’d be putting my money on. Regardless of terrain and broken road surface, there guys will rally raid right on through at dizzying speeds. The first driver we had from Phnom Penh was a rabid lunatic, driving flat out on all surfaces, overtaking on completely blind bends, overtaking while traffic coming the wrong way and sometimes on the right hand side down the verge! I estimated our chance of survival at 16.47% but we clearly made it, maybe just to I can write this review. This driver was doing all this while constantly holding 1 of 2 phones despite the bus clearly having Bluetooth and having his wife and 1 yr old child on the same seat next to him, all unrestrained. I had considered converting to religion several times during our journey to increase our chances of survival. Along with this all drivers would randomly pick up people from the side of the road. They would stop for toilet breaks but wouldn’t tell us that they were doing this or how long we had so we were all confused. At the beginning it is incredibly unclear what bus to be on, there are about 40 staff of the office but no one seems to be able to give a straight answer. It is a complete lottery that you are on the right bus and there are enough other tourists on the bus to take a poll and work out if enough of you are going to the intended destination. Driving in Cambodia is crazy, but the driving of these bus drivers is off any form of scale of mentalism. Our last driver seemed to defy all realms of physics and collision theory that I understood by inexplicably missing other vehicles by driving up their derrieres and overtaking between two vehicles on a dual carriageway (proper fast and furious move this). On the other hand the buses are comfortable and air conned and the costs are very reasonable for the epic distances, if you can put a price on living...