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Tom and I were ready to go at 7am on Tuesday the 3rd. It was too early for breakfast, but we luckily had a convenience store next to the bus station, so I was able to have a nutritious breakfast of yogurt and crackers. The first leg of our journey was a 3 hour ride to the boarder of Cambodia and Thailand. This was the first time I’ve done a land crossing and I wasn’t sure what to expect. I had read that it can be chaotic and take hours. It took no more than an hour. We got to the boarder and got off our bus and grabbed our packs. We walked to a booth and had the Cambodian boarder agents stamp our passports out of the country. Then we walked five minutes to the Thai boarder. In between the boarders were two casinos, which we don’t really understand how that works as they aren’t in either country, but rather in this no man’s land. Then we walked up some stairs to a room to get our passports stamped with our Thai entries. Walked back out of that building and waited for the Thai version of a bus, which of course was just a pick up truck with benches along the side. It took us to a small restaurant for lunch while we waited for our mini bus for Bangkok. Continue reading “Journey to the Philippines “