On the 14th of March at 5:30am we were sat on the train awaiting our 6am departure out of Bangkok. The six hour train journey would take us to Aranya Prathet, six kilometres from the Thailand - Cambodia border. A six hour ride that for the first three I had some guy sat next to me chanting; I felt like I was being exorcised. We had mixed emotions as the train made its way past towns, villages and fields. We were happy to be leaving Thailand, there were good moments, but on the whole it had been a frustrating and disappointing four weeks. However, although Cambodia seems to get good reports from other blog sites we've read, the border crossing (as I mentioned in the last blog) always had the potential to be a stressful affair,
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