Journey to Cambodia!

The minibus to Siam Reap picked us up at the hostel and we left Khaosan Road, Bangkok at 8:00am. After maybe 4 hours and a bus change, we got out at a cafe and got lunch while we got our visas processed.

It was here we met Holly and Emma, two very fun girls born in Liverpool, living in Australia and travelling through Southeast Asia like us, so we had lots to talk about while we waited at the cafe for about 2 hours. I don't have a photo of them, so here's one of Andy holding some Pringles.

As it turned out, we got ripped off for our bus ticket, as the girls paid only £4 for the same journey, whereas we paid £20. What can we say, we were taken in by a professional looking office and a man in a suit! You live and learn I guess. Andy is still annoyed about it.

Eventually we were packed onto another bus and taken to the border, where we stood in a line for about an hour waiting to be let into the country. Yawn. Eventually we got through and eventually our bus arrived, and eventually we were off to Siam Reap. After several hours, it was dark and people were hungry so we stopped at the Cambodian equivalent of a service station:

Interesting experience. Decent food, mosquitoes everywhere. After another couple hours on the bus we arrived and were greeted by a tuk-tuk driver named Song who took us to our hostel (City Garden Villa), and then arranged to pick us up the next day to take us to the Floating Village, and then the sunset at the top of Bakeng Mountain. The hostel made a good first impression, they took our bags up for us and there was a pool table, a comfy bar area and everything was made of sturdy looking wood. After a couple of games of pool we collapsed on our beds and fell asleep.