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Today's Travel:
Air: 6223 kms
Map: BNE-SIN
This time, we're using Singapore Airlines to get to Siem Reap,and back from Luang Prabang in Laos via Bangkok. We're not actually visiting Thailand, but it worked out cheaper than trying to get back to Singapore directly from Luang Prabang in Laos.
Our Singapore Airlines Airbus A350-900 Brisbane - Singapore
As seems to happen every time we travel overseas, departure is at some time well after bed time, but I guess that's what makes overseas travel so exciting and exotic. :-)
Our first trip in an A350, and we found it very comfortable. It also had a new (for us) take on the flight map.
Just after take-off. 179kts, 1400ft, heading just East of North and a mere 7 hours and 37 minutes to go.
As a mostly nighttime flight, we each took in a movie, then tried to get some sleep. About 2 hours out of Singapore, we were woken for breakfast, then arrived in Singapore. Absolutely no doubt that we'd be reunited with our bags in Cambodia. ;-)
It will come as no surprise to those who have transited through Singapore that its terminals (there are 4) are world class. We made our way to Terminal 2 via a driver-less shuttle and checked in to our hotel room, having decided before we left that 8 hours in a departure lounge would be a bit of a drag. We dawdled through the beautiful floral displays.
Orchids galore
Sunflowers and planes
More indoor displays
Silkair Airbus A320. Singapore - Siem Reap, Cambodia
A shortish flight of just under 2 hours in a aircraft that was only half full, so quite nice.
Welcome to Cambodia and Siem Reap International Airport.
Arrival procedures were 'interesting'. We walked to beyond the blue Vietnamese Airbus to near the control tower in the distance. My phone gleefully told me to was '32, feels like 38' so the 250m walk with hand luggage, etc left us just a bit hot and sweaty. In the Arrivals hall, we looked for the e-Visa line (we had purchased our visas from the Cambodian embassy in Canberra) and were then asked for our arrival forms. Huh? Nothing was handed out on the aircraft, but another of the passengers found a small table where uniformed officials were handing out forms individually if you went and asked (no signs). Forms filled and back to the e-Visa queue and this time we got through, Baggage was on the carousel! We last saw it in Brisbane and the cynic in me was astonished. Baggage in hand, we proceeded to customs where we were asked for our customs forms. Another 'Huh?'. It wasn't just us, All the white-eyes seemed to be caught out by the same puzzle. The customs' official pointed to a table with the words 'Forms' hand written on it, and a tray with zero forms in it. Finally, we got the forms, filled them out and were then just pointed straight through to CAMBODIA and our waiting guide, Barady.
We finally felt we've started our holiday!
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