At 5am we were off and to the train station to catch the 05:50 to the border. After finding our way through (and making sure to get an exit stamp from Thailand) we paid the $20 (well 1000Baht – they don’t take dollars any more) visa for Cambodia… and we entered the kingdom of Cambodia, at Poipet.
In the guide it said there were pick up trucks you could take to Siem Reap, but everyone said it was a ‘national holiday’ and that they weren’t running today. I don’t think either of us believed this, but in the event (after a good bit of walking in the hot hot heat) it turned out to be true, and we ended up getting a luxury VIP bus (in the very loosest sense of the word)
The road to Siem Reap from Poipet is supposed to be bad, and, frankly, it is. This pic does absolutely no justice whatsoever to how bumpy it is.
It was 8 hours or something on one of the worst roads I’ve ever been on. The road into Whanganui Bay is worse, but that was only 3km, this was 250 or something.
Either way, it was lovely to eventually get to Siem Reap, sleep came quickly!
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