To Ayutthaya via Bangkok

Continuing from Crossing to Thailand.

Our next mode of travel is a minivan.

It was booked together with the taxi from Battambang as a travel package to get to Bangkok another 260 km to the west.

We started to move at around 2.30 pm.

This is the minivan as we made a pitstop at 4.34 pm.

To cut the story short we arrived in Bangkok at night.

We were dropped at an outskirt part of the city centre. Then we take a tuk tuk to our next stop...

Cutting across Bangkok city we wanted to get to the Hua Lamphong railway station.

For Bangkok is not our main destination for the day...

We wanted to the get to the city of Ayutthaya 80 km to the north.

And we arrived at its train station at 10.14 am.

Crossing to Thailand

Continuing from Battambang to Poipet.

We were dropped down at a roundabout close to the national border at 11.36 am.

Nearby lies the Cambodian departure point. We have to settle local immigration matters before continuing.

We got that settled in about half and hour. Then we have to walk across the border...

This took quite a distance passing a sort of tax-free zone...

It is after taking a bridge crossing a river that you are officially in Thailand.

Next to settle immigration matters in Thailand. 

After more than an hour and a half it was settled and we went on to find our connecting vehicle in Thailand...

Battambang to Poipet

Peace be upon you all. Time to get back to the Cambodia-Thailand trip stories.

Thursday morning 29th November 2018. Our next mode of transport, a land cruiser arrived at our hotel at 8.30.

It is a local taxi for long distance drive. We wanted to get to the city of Poipet 115 km to the north-west of Battambang.

We entered Battambang city first as the driver need to run an errand...

Soon we were on our way out...

At this juncture I believe we arrived at the city of Sisophon. 

It was almost 10.30 but yet we have travelled only 70 km or so.

The condition of the road and traffic tends to constrict vehicles to a speed of 30 to 70 kmh most of the time.

The road condition is much better after Sisophon as we entered the main road which connects all to way to Siem Reap on to Phnom Penh albeit going the opposite way.

We entered the city of Poipet at around 11.25 am.

From here we can cross the national border to Thailand...