prices in Cambodia / Feb 2012

alexandra

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Joined
Oct 19, 2011
Location
Malaysia / Thailand
Bikes
Honda NX 650
Just to give you an idea about prices, so you don´t get overcharged:

• Visa on arrival: 20,- USD
• Canadia bank charges no bank fee at ATMs
• 1 kg mango: 3.000 Riel / 0,75 USD
• 1 kg mandarins: 5.000 Riel / 1,25 USD
• 1 cluster of banana: 1.500 to 2.000 Riel / 0,50 USD
• 2 kg watermelon: 3.000 Riel / 0,75 USD
• 1 big plain baguette: 1.000 Riel / 0,25 USD
• 1 small plain baguette: 500 Riel / 0,12 USD
• 1 pineapple: 3.000 Riel / 0,75 USD
• 1,5 l water bottle: 2.000 Riel / 0,50 USD
• Meals start from 1,- USD to 4,- USD in restaurants in generall.
• Noodle soup: 3.000 Riel / 0,75 USD to 6.000 Riel (1,50 USD)
• Bottle of Angkor beer 660 cl: 11.000 Riel / 3,- USD can be also 2,50 USD
• (in Siem Reap they have tap beer for 0,50 USD)
• Accomodation: varies but we started from 7,- USD / 2 pax
• Petrol: 4.800 Riel / ~ 1,22 USD to 5.500 Riel / 1,40 USD



Good travels

Alexandra & André
 
Great info, thanks A & A, which was your favorite of Thailand, Laos & Cambodia. Which did you feel was best value-for-money for what that country had to offer?
 
Hi Phil,

we liked the north of Thailand and Laos pretty much and want to come back, hiring some Enduros and have only very few luggage with us.
In Laos we had some challengig roads with the big bikes and our heavy luggage. It´s more fun with light bikes and much less luggage.
Also Lao people in the north are extremely friendly, honest and we always felt good.

If we come back to Cambodia? Probably not. It´s just very corrupt. We have been lucky and have been never stopped by the police asking for money, but we heard lot´s of storries from other travellers.
So we had this always in mind, and did not enjoy Cambodia so much. There is lot´s of police around.
We actually shipped our bikes from Phnom Penh to Japan via sea freight and will put the infos in the HU-Forum, as soon as we have received our bikes in Japan. Then we have all infos and prices together.
So we spent about a week with this in PP.

When it comes to food, it´s hard to judge. Depending where you are riding you get everything or not more as a noodle soup.
Thailand is probably the best, even on more remote tracks when it comes to food. In Laos you might just get Fö (noodle soup), if you ride off the beaten track and you should look for sth before 7pm. Otherwise you do not get much than maybe chips or crackers.
In Cambodia it´s getting better again, but we have been not much off the beaten track, besides crossing the river at Stung Treng and driving to Preah Vihear temple at the Thai boarder and then down to Siem Reap.

So, if you put prices of food, accomodation, petrol together Thailand ist best and there are plenty of offroad tracks as well as in Laos and Cambodia.
But we really loved he landscape and the people of northern Laos.

We just arrived in Trat /Thailand today and will spend the next 2 weeks on one of the islands.
The bikes are on the way to Japan now.

Save travels

Alexandra & André
 
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