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  1. Cambodian Border Mafia

    Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 21 December 2010

    Cambodia is an extraordinary country – but let’s be honest, crossing its borders makes you want to strangle people. For years, corrupt Cambodian border guards and customs agents have hassled visitors to their country demanding bribes for everything from entry stamps to bird flu health forms. Sometimes, requests for bribes are aggressive and threatening. More [...]

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  2. SCAM BUS!

    Blog: katie has itchy feet - 21 September 2009

    the dubious thai - cambodian scam bus, eh?the border in question, for the record, is aranyaprathet/poipet, the most travelled crossing from bangkok to siem reap.

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  3. Drugged in Cambodia - worst of traveling, top 5

    Blog: 99 + 1 countries - 27 July 2009

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  4. Siem Reap to Bangkok

    Blog: barnz2k : Vegan Nomad - 10 July 2009

    There are loads of stories about scam buses between Siem Reap and Bangkok, and although the worst of it is actually in the reverse direction, we were still keeping our eyes open. The bus itself was shocking of course, as was the organisation of getting people on to it. There were actually two buses, and oddly [...]

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