Aranyaprathet Travel Blogs

We left early for a long drive from Bangkok to Siem Reap. We split up into two vans for our drive to the border. I can't remember too much of the scenery because we were all busy talking and getting to know each other. We stopped once at a very Western style gas station and rest stop where my roomm…

As of this writing there are no direct flights going to Phnom Phen or Siem Reap in Cambodia so going there’s going to be toss between Thailand and Vietnam. We chose the former since most of us would like to see Bangkok too. We took a 12MN flight from Manila's NAIA Terminal and arrived in…

We arrived at the border town by train from Bangkok and stayed overnight just 500 metres from the Cambodian border.

We took the bus from Bangkok to the border, to cross into Cambodia and onto Siem Reap. We took the local 'express' bus to the border (207 baht each) from the Mochit Northern bus terminal in Bangkok. On arrival at Aranyaprathet, we took a tuktuk to the border for 80 baht. There was a tout there, I…

my travel oldyssey

A year spent exploring South East Asia, Australasia and my favouriter continent of South America

Yes, we are back, no doubt! In Aranyaprathet we experience that good old Thai efficiency again! After Customs, we are waited by a young man who changes our tickets into red labels. We are among the first, but slowly more and more peops join the group. After half an hour or so a minibus shows up. Pa…