What to write about Seam Reap? 🙂  

It’s the city near Ankor and after having a distance and calming down it looks like a funny time but while we where there I was to european.

We arrived at the border Aranyaprathet with a Local bus from Bangkok got out of the bus run away from the TUK TUK drivers waiting to drive us to the Border passage(200m). After the escape, Ingrid realized that one small bag with food Ingrids Pant legs und T-shirts was missing. She was gone running before I even understood what happend. Lucky us she could stop the driving bus and came back with the bag.

Then we walked to the border passed easy the Thai section and arrived at the Cambodian side.

They asked us to pay the official 20 US$ each plus 200 Baht. (we read in the travelbook about that) so I asked to give us a receipt for the 200 Baht. They said yeah yeah you will get a receipt for the US$ 🙂 I said again no, I mean a receipt for the 200 Baht (is only 7 CHF or CAN$ but out of a princip I didn’t want to pay that). They asked us to sit down and after a few minutes they gave us the Passports without this SCAMfee. (yeah a small victory 🙂 )The rest was quite easy to pass.

At the border we met some people from Austria and they asked us to share a Transport to Seam reap 

The prices where actually funny something like 8US$ by Bus, 11 by Minivan and 12 by Taxi. Quite ridiculous expensive but no way to get arround it (Welcome in Cambodia Nr.2). At Seam Reap we had a free TUK TUK (included in the Taxi fee) told him which guesthouse we would like to go, we never arrived there but at another place where they would have had a bonus (again Welcome in Cambodia Nr3). It took quite a while of talking to those guys till we said stop, we go, we don’t need a TUK TUK anymore and we walked away.

In the evening we went out for Dinner and those Guys (TUK TUK driver and Restaurant hosts)  where a pain in the Butt (again Welcome in Cambodia Nr4) but the best are the TUK TUK Driver “TUK TUK”… “No thanks”… and at the point off passing by “Haschisch”… the first time I tought I didn’t hear correctly but thats the way it was. Really no kidding.

Is Seam Reap Nice ? No. Cheap? No, it’s a major rip off. everywhere you go.

more about Angkor to come soon.