Let’s go cycling

Day two started swimmingly with an easy trip to the airport, collection of our bikes an no queue at the checkin counter!

All downhill from there…after much deliberation and muttering in Thai which of course neither of us understood, we we firmly told that our bikes could not make the plane trip to Siem Reap. Plane too small…boxes too big. So much for our deliberate efforts to book a through- ticketed Qantas passage, face to face with Flight Centre to ensure nothing could go wrong. Live and learn I guess.

So we missed that flight. Then to find another way to get the bikes to Siem Reap without rearranging our entire itinerary ( of which we have only the first two weeks planned anyhow!)

Train…no go. Buses, maybe a good option but we’d have to book a seat each for the bikes as well as ourselves…hmm!

So a large taxi from Bangkok to Aranyaprathet ended up as the favoured option – let’s hope Flight Centre come to the party and reimburse for their stuffups to help compensate 🙂

Dodging raindrops while hastily putting the bikes back together on the Thai border…and then a remarkably easy crossing into Cambodia…phew! A van waiting for us on the Poipet side thanks to some quick organising by Khemrak…and we made it to Siem Reap just in time for a lovely dinner and catchup with Khemrak and Sreyleak.