We departed Ko Samet today bright and early to head towards Cambodia. The rickety boat took us to the shifty sea village on Ban Phet. Last night the guy behind the bar (who was from Laos) told us that Ban Phet was closer to Cambodia and that we need not backtrack to Bangkok. We learned that we could find our way from Ban Phet to the border. Once we got off the boat, We went to the only tourist establishment to find a way to our next destination. They quoted us a ridiculous price to get to Cambodia. We took a minute to sit down and think about our predicament. We declined the minibus to the border (the only one for the day) and tried to come up with something. Fortunately for us we changed some currency at a little bar owned by an American guy. He told us that we could get public buses and make our way to a town on the border where we could stay for the night, then make our way across the next day. We got on motorcycles with our rucksacks and headed for the freeway which wasn't the best way for me to have my first motorcycle ride but in a couple of minutes we were on the side of the road waiting for a public bus which came promptly an hour later.
We took this piece of crap for a few hours to a bus depot town called Chantaburi. On this bus we were treated to some excellent progressive Thai rock. We got on another bus for 4 hours which took us to the middle of nowhere, and another bus from there to Aranya, a small Thai village that sits on the Cambodian-Thai border. Fumbling our way to this point by pointing and trying to figure out what was going on at any point was pretty hilarious, and so
very cheap.
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