Well the "6 hour" bus trip across the border from hcmc to Phnom Penh was one to miss. The bus was old and tired, the traffic was slow and somehow Nina managed to soak the kids passports in overflowed filter water all night. The border crossing was the weirdest system, passports were collected on the bus, stacked and taken into the customs building... We were told this was the border and to leave our luggage on the bus (no further instructions necessary?). We followed our bus group inside and through security to a series of crowds, vaguely resembling queues. We stood around in the heat for some time waiting for the queues to move, but nothing seemed to be happening, everyone was getting irritated in the hot crowd. Arnee pushed to the front of a queue
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