from Cambodia, Stung Treng - Village of swindlers and swindled
My friend my friend! Where you go? Tuc Tuc? Special price for you! Same same but different! DVD? Massage? Marijuana? Boom boom?
After 4 months of traveling is normal that you end up sick of hearing phrases like the one above. I think if cogieras
all Scammers of the world and were to put together in the same village would get to sell the site to the nearest country for three times what it costs and a free massage gift. These people are able to sell worthless things, things that do not exist or, even better, things that were yours!
However, when you have a time traveling antiestafas develop a thick skin. You are broken
local words in a heartbeat, you know almost instinctively know the local prices and the margin you have to use to negotiate a cherimoya Vietnamese in Cambodia.
But sooner or later someone catches you, unzip the shell in your face, and when they are in ball says: "Special price for you my friend ... 1 billion dollars"
happened recently. I cheated on my face. I cheated though I was fully aware that I was cheating and in the end, instead of hitting a punch at a Cambodian chupadolares, I had to put up with me and smile. Had arrived in Stung Treng, the people of con artists and cheated.
all started when 3 Argentine friends and I bought a bus ticket from Phnom Penh (Cambodia) to Dondet (Laos). The bus picked us up at the hostel at 07:00 am and was to leave us to our destination at 18:00. But when we were already a few hours of journey the driver stopped the bus without notice, and before we realized our bags were already on the curb in front of an ugly and very expensive hotel in the middle of ... nothing.
Welcome to Stung Treng, a ghost town with 5 or 6 hotels and a small market, whose economy is based fully on the scam tourists. Laos vowed to bring the next day in the morning. Just wanted us to stay one night in hospital and very expensive people.
can they do? Call the police? Here are all friends. The police is probably the brother, father or cousin of the fraudster. We only assume. So we take a joke and decided to take a picture with a very big L ... L for Loser:)
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