The real adventure begins

We arrived Bangkok at 9pm via Thai Air last night, a taxi ride to the hotel where we’ve booked 3 days stay at the end of our trip. The hotel offers complementary luggage storage, so we decided not to carry the stuff bought in Shanghai but leave them in Bangkok. By the time we got everything sorted, it’s already 10pm. Then we headed to bus station to catch the 3:30am bus to Seim Reap, Cambodia.

The scheduled early morning bus ride from Bangkok to Aranyaprathet (the Thai border town to Cambodia) was a good start - air conditioned, comfy seats and a bottle of water each passenger. We arrived at the border before the custom office opens (at 7am). Even in the early morning, the border area is like a zoo, people everywhere of all kinds of nationalities and border guards with machine guns patrolling the fences. Bit of a queue in the immigration office to get stamped out of Thailand. Then a 400 metres walk through no mans land between Thailand and Cambodia where the a few casinos and high end hotels situated in the mid of no where makes me wonder why.

We had heard that the road to Siem Reap was in bad condition and the best and most comfortable way was to take a Camry taxi, which we did. It costs $30 dollars to hire the whole car for the journey. Best piece of advice we ever had. The road was absolutely awful. Potholes the size of everything from a football to a bathtub, and I'm not exaggerating. Most of the time there wasn't even any road, just a field or driving in the heavy fog. Huge trucks use this road as well and it gets worse with each one passing through. So we had 4 hours of bouncing around inside the Camry and I was fighting with mosiqutos and flies during the whole time.

Well, after sorting out with a tuk-tuk driver for the next 3 days itneary, we stepped out for some local food and drinks. The food was great but the weather is so hot and I'm not sure if I can survive in the next 3 hot sticky days. Stay tune!