It's been a while since we've posted... We spent two solid days on the road travelling up to Cambodia!
And when we say two days we mean it. We got on the ferry at Koh Phangan at 12:30pm to go back to Bangkok the onto Cambodia.
After about 3 hrs on the ferry, we landed at Surathani and then carried on by bus to a meal break at the bus company headquarters, where we had to change bus. We ate 40baht Pad Thai and waited for the next bus to arrive. About 6:30pm that bus left for Bangkok, this would be home till 6am!! Some sleeping, Kindergarten Cop and another Leonardo DiCaprio movie, lots of iPod games, some more attempts to sleep, another movie (probly with Leonardo DiCaprio), and we arrive 18 hrs since we left Koh Phangan!
Turns out it's actually 4am, a bus two hours ahead of schedule in Asia that unheard of. "Lucky" for us we can try catch the 6am train to Cambodia. So we Tuk Tuk across town from Khao San Road to Hua Lumpong Train station to find the ticket station closed till 5:30am. So some more sleeping in a huge open station room with hundreds of locals from whole family's, fluroesently safron colored monks, business people and stall owners with all their goods waiting. We grab our tickets, oh did i mention it's 3rd class only, with air conditioning Thai style.. (windows) but they were 48 Baht each for a 5 hr trip!
The train was actually quite enjoyable, and no doubt would have been much more so; if we hadn't already been non stop travelling for 20 hrs at this stage!
A lot of bumps, a lot of people, a lot of stops and 6hrs later we arrive at Aranyaprathet which is the last Thai stop before the border. We jumped in a Tuk Tuk and headed for the Cambodia Border!
Ciao for now!
Rick
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