It was pretty confusing as unlike at the Friendship Bridge into Laos, noone seems interested in telling you where to go.
1. As you approach the border you need to continue straight on towards the Thai flag and NOT turn left into the market and carpark area. You will go to the left of the first set of buildings at the border and stop here at a Customs booth on the right to receive the temporary export document. The man in the booth will complete this for you. Takes 5 minutes.
2. You then ride on to the more chaotic Emigration area. Here you park up the bike and queue on the left under the tree next to the shrine where there are metal barriers to assist queueing. Thais queue to the left and Farang to the right. You may have to wait quite a while here before the gate is opened to allow you into Passport Control. It's pretty hot so take some water and a hat!
3. Once in Passport Control queue in lanes 1 or 2 Marked for Foreign Passport Holders to be stamped out of Thailand.
4. You now have to go across to the right to have the bike docs copied and receive a form called Information of Conveyance. A guy should approach you and help you with this - pay 30 baht for copies. You are now free to leave Thailand with the bike.
5. The Cambodian side is much easier. You ride until you see the offices on the right labelled Visa Service with chairs outside. Here you will be given a form to complete and hand over together with passport 20 US dollars and a passport photo. The visa only takes 5 minutes to be issued and you wait in a nice shady area with seats. There is a money exchange place here but rate is not good.
6. You then ride on a little further until you come to passport control on the right. Here you park up and take a form with Arrival and Departure Card. Complete this and hand this and passport to the man in booth for stamping in to Cambodia.
7. If you have a Thai bike and no carnet you are free to go ( althought the guy in customs did try to tell Dave that he needed a carnet for a Thai bike and we had to promise to go no further than Siem Reap - see Dave's earlier post). If you have a carnet to be stamped you have to drive over the traffic island (ride on the right!) and look for the Customs and Excise building on the left. Park in the carpark and into the upstairs office for stamp in carnet - very quick.
It took us a good 3 hours to get through and most of this was queueing on the Thai side.
Look at our photos:
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1. As you approach the border you need to continue straight on towards the Thai flag and NOT turn left into the market and carpark area. You will go to the left of the first set of buildings at the border and stop here at a Customs booth on the right to receive the temporary export document. The man in the booth will complete this for you. Takes 5 minutes.
2. You then ride on to the more chaotic Emigration area. Here you park up the bike and queue on the left under the tree next to the shrine where there are metal barriers to assist queueing. Thais queue to the left and Farang to the right. You may have to wait quite a while here before the gate is opened to allow you into Passport Control. It's pretty hot so take some water and a hat!
3. Once in Passport Control queue in lanes 1 or 2 Marked for Foreign Passport Holders to be stamped out of Thailand.
4. You now have to go across to the right to have the bike docs copied and receive a form called Information of Conveyance. A guy should approach you and help you with this - pay 30 baht for copies. You are now free to leave Thailand with the bike.
5. The Cambodian side is much easier. You ride until you see the offices on the right labelled Visa Service with chairs outside. Here you will be given a form to complete and hand over together with passport 20 US dollars and a passport photo. The visa only takes 5 minutes to be issued and you wait in a nice shady area with seats. There is a money exchange place here but rate is not good.
6. You then ride on a little further until you come to passport control on the right. Here you park up and take a form with Arrival and Departure Card. Complete this and hand this and passport to the man in booth for stamping in to Cambodia.
7. If you have a Thai bike and no carnet you are free to go ( althought the guy in customs did try to tell Dave that he needed a carnet for a Thai bike and we had to promise to go no further than Siem Reap - see Dave's earlier post). If you have a carnet to be stamped you have to drive over the traffic island (ride on the right!) and look for the Customs and Excise building on the left. Park in the carpark and into the upstairs office for stamp in carnet - very quick.
It took us a good 3 hours to get through and most of this was queueing on the Thai side.
Look at our photos:
Link removed
] . Apparently they recently sacked the head of immigration at the border because he had been unable to stem the flow of Thai's crossing the border to gamble, but I too experienced them letting through 2 'turns' of the Thai queue for one of the Farrang queue, so it doesn't seem like the replacement is doing any better.