border crossing between Thailand and Cambodia, casinos and bad roads. loved every minute of it. Just like Mexico

The bus journey to Poipet was pretty nice as we mostly slept and watched Family Guy on Mike's Ipod. It was a real luxury for me having him for company. Poipet is a horrible town - both aesthetically and otherwise! It's full of horrible people! All the Khmer people got off the bus, leaving 7 farang wondering what the hell we're expected to do now...

The photos speak for themselves, this trip was really not different at all from the trip into Cambodia. Except I knew what to expect this time. I hired a taxi from my hotel which got me to the border (6hours $15 US), and there I found a guy at a folding table outside the border office who sold me a ticket on the next bus back to Bangkok (5 hours...

How in the hell do I get myself to see Angkor Wat? Crossing the overland border from Thailand into Cambodia has become an infamous undertaking. A Google search results pages and pages of info to warn tourists that this is not for the faint of heart. (www.travelfish.org/feature/71) The thing is that lots of tourists want to go into Cambodia to se...

we left from amy and kip's house at 8 am for the most trying day of our lives. we had read a lot in the books about a scam that exists on getting from bangkok to siem reap. travel companies offer cheap tickets "all the way through to siem reap"; however what really happens is that you get off the swanky bus at the border and get on a truly ramsh...

further to Cambodia.. like to see more...www.pascalkaelin.com

So I waited at the dusty Poipet bus station where it was so hot even the litter looked for shade, waiting for the free 'Tourist Bus' to take me the 1600 metres down the road to the 'Tourist Office'. There I could organise a shared taxi ride for the 150km to Siem Reap. The road is notoriously bad, dirt track all the way and four hours even by tax...

Recovering from another hangover I left the hotel in Aranya Prathet to search out a tuk tuk driver in the searing midday sun. Within 40 seconds two rival drivers were waving and beaming at me from the other side of the road and I was on my way to the Cambodian border. Did you know you are never more than 12 feet away from a tuk tuk driver? Borde...

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Poipet is a shithole!

7:40am They should come pick me up any second now to take me to my bus. Let's see if I can survive the road on the Cambodian side which I hear is pretty horrible. -- So they came and picked me up while I was writing that last sentence. Now I'm sitting at a small food stall about 1 minute walking distance from the guesthouse. Pretty funny. Now to...