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It was very hot and sweaty when we arrived to the town, but the second hotel we checked out was nice, clean, and had great air con for 15$.
We did a walk to the nearby day market and found a shop to get passport photos in case we need them at the Thai border (on line it is confusing about the visa issue and if there is a cost) and they were so cheap at 4/1$.
IMG_1272 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
Then we walked across the bridge to the night market area to get some dinner at a street side stand. The amount of garbage here is totally insane! looking out the back balcony of the hotel there are piles of garbage bags just heaped up below. What are these people thinking!!!
Cambodia-89 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
We are so stressed about the crossing to Thailand, since if we do not get in we will have a serious problem. The people of Cambodia are super smiley and friendly, the food here was very good, and again the traffic in the cities only is orderly. There is courtesy and calmness to the driving. Even in congestion with tons of tuk tuks and scooters people are flowing like a school of fish.
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It is 253 km (4 hours) to the border and we have changed our plan to try and cross today instead of tomorrow. We usually do not do a border with a long drive on either side, but after they guys only took and hour to get across we will try for it. This also means we will still have the next day (Friday) to try again if we have issues.
Screen Shot 2017-11-22 at 17.17.32 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
The first 95 km on the National Highway 4 was totally straight and there was an amazing amount of traffic for Cambodia. It is partly cloudy and this is a relief as it was already 29 at 745 when we left. When we turned off onto the 48 there was literally no traffic and the road more hilly and curvy thru the jungle. It was also in poor condition in some sections. Finally we crossed the bridge and Thailand was in sight.
IMG_0753 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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We arrived to the Cambodia-Thai border zone and parked to the right just before the gate.
FILE4476 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
FILE4482 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
There is an immigration office on the right with the windows clearly marked in English. We took our passports to the “Departure” window for an exit stamp and to hand in the departure card. They check your fingerprint and take a photo.
They cared not a whiff about the bikes or customs. There actually is a customs office directly opposite, but no-one asked us to go there and in 5 minutes and we were done and thru the gate.
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You ride 100 m to the Thai side and the Police waved us past the gate to park on the left by the immigration building. The agent there is outside at a desk and he handed us 2 arrival cards and said while pointing “ first go there (customs) and then there (to the police kiosk), and third back here”.
FILE4492 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
FILE4493 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
FILE4496 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
Super friendly and they did not even blink about the bikes. We walked across the road to customs and handed him 2 carnet and 2 passports. He also did not flinch and just started doing the paper work for the carnet and TVIP.
Then we went over to the police and they took the TVIP and entered in in a ledger and handed us a plastic exit card.
FILE4498 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
Next you go back to the immigration building. The first window is the Visa office, which is visa on arrival and there is no longer a fee (it was 30 USD). She wanted our passport and TVIP (proof you will exit the country is needed like a plane/bus ticket or 30 day TVIP). There is a massive sign here stating the penalties for overstaying your visa. She did all the paperwork and handed us 2 copies of the visa to sign. Next you go around the corner “to window 3”, where there agent takes your passport, arrival card, and visa papers. They take your photo and have you sign in the ledger.
FILE4504 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
You then go to the bike and the gate agent takes one of your visa copies and the plastic exit card.
IMG_1273 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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Yes and I need to add the links for
Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia, China, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, and New Zealand!
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After a well deserved break from the blogging I am finally back at it if a few months behind!!
We were in and out in 30 minutes total. Unbelievable after all the angst and stress (we have heard since a number of people have been refused, but none that used carnets). Since we still have LTE from our Cambodian Sim we could now look for somewhere to go to stay on the beach for a few days and relax! We have to be at YSS south of Bangkok on Monday in 4 days time.
FILE4516 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
There is a huge gated diversion about 500 m from the border this is a clear reminder that you have to drive on the left here! I had just given shit to the gal on a bike riding in my lane…oops. The second thing you will notice riding here is there is NO garbage all over the place like there is in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia.
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Today we head 288 km north towards Bangkok to Pattaya and to within striking distance of YSS for Monday.
Screen Shot 2017-11-25 at 19.35.50 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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FILE4911 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
It was a pleasant 25-25 degrees she we started out at 9, but by 11 it was 32. There is a fair amount of traffic on the #3 especially near cities and there are a lot of long traffic lights and urbanization .
FILE4913 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
We had a hard time finding a car wash and finally did in Pattaya City. It is owned by and American and the bikes have not been this clean since new! It was just 5 more km to the hotel and the traffic was bad in a few section, but then moved well once we got off the main road. Drivers here are very courteous and follow the rules like the speed limit and merging “like a zipper”.
IMG_1288 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
IMG_1290 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
IMG_1286 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
We had a warm Thai welcome to our hotel!
Thailand-21 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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For dinner we walked back over the hill and down to the sea to the Cabbages and Condoms restaurant. This place uses profits to fund schools and community projects.
IMG_1296 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
IMG_1297 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
To get home we opted for a scooter taxi. After haggling for the price we settled somewhere in the middle, but when we got to the hotel and the driver realized he thought it was a different farther hotel and right away he said he would change to the original price we asked for. Very nice honest guy. Funny as he misunderstood the place we wanted to go and must have thought we were being cheap and we though he was overcharging for the closer place. Ha ha .
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Today is a big day as we are headed to YSS Suspension for our 10 am appointment. It is 112 km and google says 1 hr 35 min, but despite that we left at 0730 and with traffic we arrived just after 930.
Screen Shot 2017-11-27 at 22.04.51 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
We certainly did not expect the road to be a 6 lane divided one. We can not take the elevated toll road just above us as motorcycles are banned and the fine is 300$. So we were happy to find a road we could do 80 km most of the time. There is uncontrolled access and quite a few lights in the towns, but we still made good time.
FILE4928 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
YSS is easy to get to and is just a bit off the access road 34 to the city.
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We were warmly greeted by the service staff and the CEO Mr. Pinyo and our contact his personal assistant Ms. Gift.
Thailand-30 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
She advised us that they had prepared a program for us for today and that included new front suspensions for both bikes, a custom rear suspension with piggy back for Dan’s bike and an inspection of the new shock in the 650. What we actually got was even more. They installed fully adjustable front suspension to the 650 and also a custom made suspension with external piggy back as well.
Thailand-29 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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