The day of the infamous journey across the border started just fine. At 5am we got taxis to the train station. We each got tickets to the border town for less than 50 baht each. The 5:55 am train reached the town about 11:35am. The countryside was amazing. When we got off, we got offered tuk-tuks to the border for 80 baht. Not a bad price so we hopped right on. He did try to take us to a tourist stand and then to the consulate. I said no and he headed to the border.
The border crossing took longer than I thought. The Thailand immigration line was very long and it took a good 30 minutes to get inside. We then had a hard time figuring out what to do. They made us stop at a temperature check and we all passed. We saw a sign to the right for visas on arrival. I refused to pay the bribe they asked for (100 to 600 baht depending on the time they asked) and they eventually took the passports. We then walked on and saw another place where we checked into Cambodia. We were then surrounded by taxi drivers. The first offer was $45 a taxi (and we needed two). We tried to walk into town instead of heading to their taxi location somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Town was hot and we didn't see much. Finally we settled on the $40 taxi. We had them stop at a restaurant along the way as we were really hungry. They did stop right inside Siem Reap and hand us over to other cars who brought us to the guesthouse. We only paid once we were at our guesthouse.
Our guesthouse was Babel Siem Reap. They are really nice and helped us plan lots of stuff to do. The inside does not have aircon and so it is quite hot and took a good day for our room to feel as cold as I like. Despite that small problem, everything is clean, well run, comfortable, and nice.
We walked to a little pizza place for supper and called it a night.
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