Bangkok to Siem Reap

This morning Ove and I  got up at 4 am, Lars woke up 10 min later and said : “I need food!”.  At 4: 45 am we left for the train station, when we got there we where offered taxi to the border for 2000 bath but we bought train tickets for 144 bath.

We all had breakfast at platform number 6 while we waited for the train to come. Around us people where sleeping on benches and on the ground, it was a strange feeling standing there at 5 am in the dark waiting for the train. The train to the Cambodian border only has 3 class seats, so we had to sit on wooden benches for more then 5 hours, you can say we felt a bit sore after the trip. A very new experience for us!!!!

At the station we rented a tuk-tuk to take us to the border, and we paid a guy to help us cross over to Cambodia. He probably over charged us but he made the hole border crossing easier for us. We didn`t need to stand in line at the Cambodian immigration and he also helped us with a taxi from the border to Siem Reap, a 3 hour long drive. Finally we arrived at our hotel, an old french style building, very nice right in the middle of the old town.

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