Bangkok to Siem Reap and Phnom Penh
is a routing
many travelers take, because its cheap and fast. The
best actually is to start at Suvarnabhumi Airport, they
have a bus to Aranyaphratet at 7am and at the weekend
additionally in the afternoon. It costs less than $
10,-, the bus is excellent and since it starts at the
airport it passes the Bangkok traffic mess. Use the
airport rail link to come to the airport.
After its a
streight run, when arriving at the border ignore the
people who come to the bus and try to manovre you to
their office and pretending to handle the border papers,
noone need them since all is streightforward. It only
needs to go to the Cambodian immigration counter behind
the the big entrance door and after to the other
immigration where thy issue the actual visa for $ 20,-.
The Thai and
Cambodian border people are friendly and the Cambodians
wont cheat at the border as they do when entering the
country at Koh Kong where they ask around $ 40,- for the
visa which costs usually $ 20,- but just needs to be
stubborn and never pay more.
When leaving
the passport control the best is to go together with one
or two other and take a taxi, thats relativly cheap when
more than one and much faster than the bus. It also
allows to stop when needed, maybe for a great shot. Take
the seatbelt since the behaviour of the people is
hairraising and with total carelessness. Its even worst
than in Thailand and Thai road travel is already real
breathtaking. As an example, at Phuket Island they have
around 200.000 accidents every year. this is a grotesk
number and most of the people actually doing this
accidents are motorbike driver. |
