Hopping on a bus ride across the "Poipet" border, Stacey and I encountered our first surprise of the day. A rude foreigner yelling at a Cambodian worker on our bus. Why foreigners go to other countries drink all night and then act entitled without concern for anybody else, I will never understand. So it wasn't the best way to start off the day, but we were off to Bangkok,Thailand for a night and then to Laos. Our second surprise of the day was the three hour wait in hot muggy sun trying to cross into Thailand. I had heard that the border crossing was horrible, but I just dismissed it, not believing that it was true. Turns out it was the worst border crossing I have ever done! So inefficient, especially for being the most used border crossing from Cambodia to Thailand.
Three hours later we crossed the border and boarded some air-com vans to take us at a very high speed into Bangkok.
We made it though, thank goodness. Bangkok is a huge city and quite
overwhelming if one is not familiar with it. Stacey ended up getting
sick and hunkering into our dorm beds for the day and I decided to do
some exploring of the city. I walked to the reclining Buddha, Royal
Palace and another Wat. I got to eat Pad Thai at the best eatery in
town, although it was no competition got Josh's Pad Thai!
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| First Wat I visited |
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| City street of Bangkok |
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| Famous Reclining Buddha |
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