Before crossing the border between Laos and Cambodia, I was handed a brochure of the organization Stay another day, an organization that promotes volunteerism among tourists.
Get involved, they said. Very beautiful message: help the community, give to the community, give back to the community ... Sven has a lot more money aside in his capacity as unemployed guy, but he said he'd like to give a little of his time and energy for the Emancipation of the Cambodian people.
After all, these people had a rough time and rebavé thanks to the genius of a Pol Pot.
I am immersed in my reading when we arrive at the border. A little clowning as staging.
We head to the checkpoint of the Lao dounane. The little man behind the window ensures that everyone is legal. Everything is beautiful, but we must go to the checkout. Each tourist leaving the country must give a dollar to the controller. Why? To be stamped "USED" on the visa.
Everyone knows that people who perform the movement is to stamp a document are at risk of contracting a very surbite (thank you Boom Boom).
25 tourists, it is hard-earned $ 25 in kind four minutes.
Step circus: the medical examination in the no-man's-land between Laos and Cambodia. The review is to take a kind of plastic gun, put it to the client's forehead and press a button. The revolutionary gadget is supposed to give the temperature of the customer. Those with fever can enter Cambodia. But as everyone points to 35.6 degrees, Cambodia is in no danger. Again "tcheching": $ 1 for "medical examination".
Like his colleague Lao, the clerk takes the ticket for a dollar each and Garroch, if not the Calisse in a large suitcase inscribed with POLICE in large letters.
Third, the station's visa. All tourists fill the application form visa on arrival. Visa cost: $ 23 U.S. ... dollars plus ... another dollar, which also ends its course in another nice big leather suitcase POLICE.
Technically, tourists by applying for a visa must provide a passport size photograph. Important to have a picture, they write throughout the travel guides. But well, in fact, it is not necessary to provide a photo. You pay two dollars more and the picture once so important an item suddenly becomes optional ...
I saw all those dollars to finish their race in suitcases POLICE ... for some reason, it made me think that I read the brochure the bus. All those beautiful concepts to help others, give back to the community, sharing the wealth ... while the police were filling the coffers at an incredible speed ...
Sven has a flaw: it tends to be a bit mushy and irreverent ... to ask questions that we should not ask people who do not like to ask questions. What do you see Sven likes this world Pogner nerves, just for fun to see people Pogner nerves.
In any other circumstance, Sven would have asked the police if the money we gave them as distributing candy on Halloween was returned to community or if they rustled in the pockets at the end of the day ...
But Sven has said he might be better to close it (the language, she shot about 268 times in my mouth), an issue to take off right his stay in Cambodia and have the right to enter Cambodia ...
Seems they call it wisdom ...
And it seems no cure. Shit!
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