Soon, trips from Phnom Penh to Bangkok and vice versa
will be more affordable to ordinary Cambodian and Thai travelers.
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| A Bangkok bus. Credit: travelthaihotel.com |
In fact, the first bus services connecting Bangkok with
Siem Reap and Phnom Penh will be launched late this month.
This is according to the Thai media reports.
The first bus trip service between the two neighboring
countries will kick off on Dec 29.
A one-way trip between Thailand’s Bangkok and Cambodia’s
Siem Reap – approximately 400 kilometers – will cost you 25 US dollars. And it
takes roughly seven hours.
The Bangkok-Phnom Penh service with a one-way ticket fare
of 30 US dollars will take about eleven hours on a route of over 700
kilometers.
The Bangkok-Phnom Penh bus will run once a day while the
Bangkok-Siem Reap service will provide two trips a day.
Cambodia’s Siem Reap province is home to the world famous
Angkor Wat temple complex which is most popular among foreign tourists
including Thais.
Cambodia has set a target to receive 7 million foreign tourists
by 2020.
And the bus link between Thailand and Cambodia could well
be another contributing factor that would help Cambodia achieve its target.
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