today we are crossing the worst rated Border in Southeast Asia and traveling from Laos to Cambodia
we'll also show you our first impressions of this new country. So, unfortunately,
today we are leaving Laos but we are heading to Siem Reap, Cambodia today which is really
really exciting so we're going to be crossing the border we're currently in Don Det which is like a
really chilled it's also called four thousand islands because we're basically in the middle
of the Mekong on an island just chilling out we only stayed one night but it's so peaceful and
I would recommend staying a bit longer we need to go because we need to get a ferry and then a
minibus and cross the border into Cambodia let's go we better go gearbox yep you check the room
I don't know hopefully we did
so our Ferry leaves at nine and it's like 8 52 so we need to be a little bit quick
and then we've got to take a mini bus and our bus then across the border just waiting for
the boat to arrive as they were still in now obviously it's probably going to be late yeah
have you got the ticket have you got the ticket oh no
I left the ticket
I left the ticket in the room but I've now got it
I'm running because we're gonna miss the boat why
I don't know how I left it it's the only thing we needed we were just chilling out
we found it Joe found it which is good because I was getting worse
we are on a floating raft going to the mainland now this is crazy
right I think we've got to head now to get the minibus or a bus to the Cambodian border
and then this is not supposed to be the easiest border to cost so let's see how this goes is it
not no it's supposed to be like it's not rated very highly and yeah it's not like the easiest
because they try and get more money out of you but we'll see for ourselves so we are
just waiting around basically like you're doing allow a lot of the time for our bus to the border
and then Siem Reap but I don't know how long we got away they just say I don't know you got the
ticket the new ticket which is exactly the same as the ultimate this ticket gets us all the way
to see him read but it's just a piece of paper like everywhere in Asia it's crazy isn't it
we're at the border now and we're just waiting to get out of Lao I think we've got to give them
a bit of paper or something so just weighing in the queue so guys we have just checked out of Laos
um and they charge so this border is known for being a bit dodgy they charge you two dollars for
a stamp each which is like in your passport when you enter the country you'd have to pay for that
I've never had to pay for it for any other country until last time I was at this specific border like
five years ago so that just shows you know it is two dollars it doesn't really matter but they're
just they're just to make money I think it's just to make money you know a bit of pocket money so
they're like why not because I asked him why and he was like for the stamp I was like okay it's not
like you can say no either because you have to do it there's no option but I mean it is two dollars
so we are now walking maybe five ten minutes to the Cambodian side well I think we're gonna
buy the uh the visa for like 30 USD also if you are coming to Laos and you get this exit little
departure ticket thing I'll try and find a photo of it then you need to make sure you keep it for
when you leave Lao otherwise you're gonna have to spend a lot more money like probably in that
extra five USD to get it and it just makes the process a lot longer so make sure you fill it out
before we get to the border so yeah make sure you do that guys I think right now we're actually in
no man's land because this isn't now but it's not Cambodia because so we're just in the middle of no
country that is ice that's nice and fresh whoa why does that randomly ice and no man's land
oh it stinks it's fishy ice okay I shouldn't have touched it with my foot in it
oh no there's the sign we are in Cambodia welcome to Cambodia I think once and once
we go under there we're in Cambodia yeah under this little I don't know
this is your first time in the country isn't it yeah how's your first impressions of this
border it actually feels hotter since we were just in love now I feel a bit warmer
yeah then yes I was in Cambodia like five years ago so this is my second time here I'm excited
well a little limbo let's go get our visa for Cambodia I think that was just like a little
Health checkout but I think we've got to fill in the forms get the visa now you can actually
get an e-visa here but um we're just gonna do it in on arrival because it's probably easier
but we'll see it might not be oh yeah yeah so we are in Cambodia yeah how's it feeling it feels
good it feels hot it feels feels hot doesn't it okay let's talk about this Visa because I thought
it was 30 US dollars but apparently they charged us 38 US dollars each something about a stamping
fee and I don't know I don't know if they charge us an extra eight dollars but at the end of the
day it's only eight dollars it doesn't matter it's just a bit of light oh we're right in the
country and they're just taking more money but oh well so inside we couldn't film but basically like
the ladies were just like filming like scrolling on Tick Tock like they didn't really care like
they were like stamping on pathway I'm just like scrolling I was like but I mean it's not the most
fun job so you don't blame them if they can for those of you who don't know so in Cambodia they
mostly use just US dollars but then you can give them US Dollars and you get Cambodian real their
own currency back so it's kind of like a little bit confusing but that's basically what happens
um yeah so if you're coming to Cambodia bring US dollars or yeah just get them from the ATM
when you get here so we've got some more waiting to do we're going to wait here I
don't know for how long maybe an hour I think till everyone comes through from who was doing
the Border because we were at the start of the queue which was quite lucky because there
was only like one or two people working um but we've ordered some food it cost like 4.80 and
then because I paid with a five USD we got two a thousand Cambodian real back so 20 cent back
which is crazy and yeah I just remember it last time just being so weird because
you're given one currency and you get another one back so yeah we ordered some fried rice
and some water so let's dig into our first Cambodian reel Cambodian meal not for real
in this battle with lots of bags
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it's a heavy one that one isn't it so we just got to see him right we're here in Cambodia but
we're getting a free ride to our hostel which is pretty cool I think it's included but I'm not sure
it took and the guys seem really nice but they're
going to give us the right car he's running over here we go
so about the tuk-tuk driver basically they take you to the hostel or whatever you're staying for
free and then it's like a little agreement they drop you off with them and then they want you to
basically take you around and Co-op for the day so we have agreed that we're going to be doing
the anchor wat tour in a couple of days time and it was costing us 25 US dollars so we agreed for
that and then we got the free like transport to our hostel so yeah that's the kind of thing
with that overall of that actual transport it was pretty decent like obviously there's a few
scams and not even scams they just they just want money and at the border and stuff but to be fair
it was quite quick and relatively easy so yeah I do recommend doing this route but now we're
gonna head out to get some food in Cambodia yes because we are starving we haven't eaten since
well we ate at lunchtime but I'm just hungry yeah it's been a long journey it's been a long
day let's go out and explore Cambodia so we have just left the hostel honestly these streets look
Immaculate it's so clean and everything looks really Posh and so different to allow every
loud Street and low is pretty much a Dusty Street whereas here it's like look at it
it looks amazing honestly everything seems so busy like there's stuff going on right I don't
really know where we're going but we're just gonna walk and try and find some food I can't
believe how amazing and modern and just clean the streets are like compared to a lot of Asian
cities this is just incredible it's so like spread out and well built yeah like big walkways to walk
it's just so different it's allow as well that's probably why I'm like so amazed by it right now
we are definitely in a more commercialized era Town there's Indians Greek restaurants Mexican
restaurants all over the place I haven't seen many Cambodian restaurants no we've just seen
some street food across the road so we might go have a little look see what they've got over here
which one's good which one the best noodle
yeah okay two so my hand is almost the size of this chair how small are these chairs and it
feels like they're like preschool chairs like for five-year-olds in a classroom yeah excited
first well I feel like this is our first proper meal in Cambodia you know what I mean no it is
I know we ate at lunch just when we passed the Border oh okay yeah it's been a while
and the food's gone oh it's really good wasn't it I actually loved that first proper meal in
Cambodia was very good actually guys look at this bridge it's like we're in a fairy tale
wow River's going down here isn't it yeah we've just arrived at Pub Street look at that
this whole street is just crazy like Cal Sand Road but here in Cambodia but it feels a bit
more like there's just loads of restaurants so many restaurants and beer is only a dollar here
like a nice restaurant which is so good
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we were just walking down the street and then in the distance we see the 7-Eleven
at 7-Eleven we didn't know they had them here Joe said they didn't have them I've been here
before and I swear they didn't have them but I'm currently looking at one so we're gonna go in and
check it out it's probably not going to be like Thailand but you never know let's go have a look
so inside that 7-Eleven it was literally like it was in Thailand it had all like the meals
it had like the iced coffee and it was just so busy in there because I think like every
Western tourist was like I need to go there maybe there's only one in the NCM Reef or
something yeah I don't know maybe there's more we'll have to find out but we're gonna head back
to the hotel now because it's quite sleepy I mean we've had a busy old day I hope you found
this video useful if you are coming from Laos to Cambodia use this as a guide with all like
the weird border crossings and everything because it can be really confusing to know
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