Got up early today, need to be at the airport at 11:50 for our flight at 14:50. They all said 3 hours in advance, and we where good to move anyways – but we coulg have lingered for another hour.
We where catching the flight to Siem Reap from Don Mueang (DMK) airport in Bangkok, a 30-40 min ad 350 bat drive from our horel. Probably because of being a weekday, and midday, we zoomed along nicely trugh traffic, got to the airport – checkin allready done online – and then just you regular bagdrop. Airasia also have the self-service booths, so fairly easy peasy.
The Don Muang airport is pretty nice, decent size with lots of resturants and the regular airport shops.. some local stuff for sale of course.
All well and dandy there.. flight 1 hour delayed, so I started googeling nice to know stuff in Cambodia.
1. Get an eVisa in advance. (nope, not done!)
2. Bring US dollars, only currency that works. (eeeh.. Nope!)
3. If you apply for visa on arrival, you NEED to bring 30USD for payment (Nope..no..)
4. … and a passport photo ( lord allmighty, I had tons after project china visa)
5. Note that ATM before imigration run out of dollars frequently ( fuck me !)
So now Im starting to stress a bit, because this I should have known in advance :). So i run (haha, no not really) to the exchange booths. Nope – the ONLY exchange, it says so on the sign.
Well, fuck it then. Ill just make sure to be the first one off the flight, get to the atm machines before imigration (the internet says there is two ef the , there where 3) and get money. And so I did, no problem – they all had. ash it looked like. And we where only fined 2USD for not bringing a photo. I have to say that it was a hell of a lot paperwork to be filled in – we got three forms each, everyone of them pretty much asking for the same thing. Took us an hour getting trough the visa on arrival desk and passport controll.. bonus was a full page visa for not 15 but 30 days. (the internet told us 15)
Our hotel, Popular Hotel & Spa (as i have written probably 10000 times in the visa etc docs) had complimentrary aiport pickup. We where oretty nuch expecting a car, but got a cool tuktuk that drove us the 9km to downtow. excelent?! 😀
But. ow we arefinaly here. Cambodia and tomorrow Angkor Wat. We hit “pub street” for local beer and some food. Looks like a really cool place, totaly unexpected. We both agree it got an Austin feel to it.. Aisia. Austin.
Best beer I’ve had in days!