We flew on Bangkok Air ("the boutique airline") from Siem Reap to Bangkok, landing at the new airport which reportedly was full of mistakes and never-ending problems since opening last Fall. We found it to be fine, very modern and efficient. And B. Air was superb. A 55 minute flight and we were served a box lunch and beverage. Hello Air Canada!!!!!!
We shared a taxi with an Israeli into town and are very pleased with our hotel. It is within walking distance of the main temple and palace area, and also the backpackers area with cheap food and knock-off everythings. Our first afternoon we just walked around the area and tried to cross the 6 lanes in each direction, no discernable traffic rules, no pedestrian right-of-way mentality intersections. Wow! The most dangerous part of our trip so far. Good dinner and our first Pad Thai in Thailand. Beer is good, too.
Today we had our hotel breakfast and then headed out around 8 a.m. to begin touring. Sure enough, just as the tour book said, two different touts came up to us and told us the temples we were heading for were closed today, but they could recommend and show us another one. No thanks, we said and kept walking. Surprise, surprise everthing we wanted to see was open and available to tour. So we did. More later, gotta go.
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