Traveling Across Asia

Hello again! We are making our way across Asia and have one more leg to go in our trip. We successfully drove from Prek Ambel to Koh Kong on the edge of the Cambodia – Thailand border. It was some of the most beautiful scenery I have seen in Cambodia.

We arrived in Koh Kong around 5:00 PM. We stayed in the home of some missionaries who are currently on furlough in the USA. Here are a few pictures of their home.

We had a restful night of sleep and in the morning we headed out to cross the border into Thailand. The border paperwork was very easy and we had crossed the border which is right next to the Gulf of Thailand by 9:00 am.

Here are some pictures of the border crossing:

Next we headed on to Bangkok to drop of our friend Kara and her son Noah. She is planning to have her baby in Bangkok two days after Jennifer. Our taxi driver was great and we stopped two or three times over the course of the trip to get snacks and use the bathroom which made the women happy! We arrived in Bangkok at 3:00 PM and had a few hours to rest before our train left for Chiang Mai.

Here is Kara and Noah along with Jennifer and Katherine at her service apartment.

When we arrived at the train station to board the train which we thought was leaving at 7:00 PM we found out that it actually left at 6:00 PM and that we were too late to take it. So we stayed the night in Bangkok and are planning to take today’s 6:00 PM train. So we will be arriving a day later than we expected but that’s just fine. We were a bit wiped out from travelling and the extra rest was good. Our hotel is right next door to the train station and is very convenient. Neither one of us has ever ridden on a train before and we both think the train station is a cool place.