Sandman77 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Soon my 3 month running out, this year I want go first time over the surin boarder, so what is the name of the Cambodian city near surin? Visit Siam reap and Angkor allready 2 times , this year I want make another tour, what city and sightseeing you can recommend , in a range of aprox 200 km from surin boarder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khwaibah Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Cross over at the Chong Chom Border crossing about 72 km south of Surin on the 214 highway.Get a van from the Surin bus sation for 60 baht to the crossing. Taxi are in Cambodia (O'Smach) go to Preah Vihear temple, 160 km east of the crossing. Preah Vihear can not be accessed from Thailand only from Cambodia.Worth the trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuketrichard Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 second the above, great temple, do not take ur thai gf/wife with you, they will not allow her up to the temple you could combine it with a trip to Anlong Veng and see Pol Pot's grave. or Banteay Chhmer is about 80 kms from Osmach as well, Fantastic temple and no one around 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat ji Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 (edited) second the above, great temple, do not take ur thai gf/wife with you, they will not allow her up to the temple Why not? you could combine it with a trip to Anlong Veng and see Pol Pot's grave. What's the point of seeing the place where a dead body was buried? Or is it decorated in an interesting way or something? Edited April 11, 2014 by Cat ji Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suradit69 Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 (edited) What's the point of seeing the place where a dead body was buried? Or is it decorated in an interesting way or something? Well on a scale of 1 to 10 for memorials to the dead Pol Pot's might struggle ... ---- to get a 1, but crowd control is rarely a problem and this would garner a 10, but ... Edited April 11, 2014 by Suradit69 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJCM Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 (edited) This would be a 11 (but maybe only for some) Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_Lachaise_Cemetery Edited April 11, 2014 by MJCM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuketrichard Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 thais are not allowed up the mountain at Preah Vihear on the cambodian side, Its a military location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khwaibah Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 thais are not allowed up the mountain at Preah Vihear on the cambodian side, Its a military location. Has been this way sense the border conflict of 2008. Non Thais only. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuketrichard Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 thais are not allowed up the mountain at Preah Vihear on the cambodian side, Its a military location. Has been this way sense the border conflict of 2008. Non Thais only. not sure when it started, personal story, went in 2011 with my thai/american daughter ( she holds both passports) at the bottom you register with ur passport, i gave them our us passports. at the top, a guard asked her where she was from, she was only 16 and said thai. They stopped us, 15 minutes of phone calls back and forth and they finally agreed to allow us to proceed up to the temple. we had 2 armed mlitary guards and 3 police with us, They kept trying to seperate me from her and asking her questions about why she was there etc. She was almost in tears. They "led" us around ( no one else had any guards, guides) and kept pushing us to move on. A very bad experience. Few of my friends have driven across the border from thailand been to PV with their wifes an every one was refused to travel up to the temples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khwaibah Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 thais are not allowed up the mountain at Preah Vihear on the cambodian side, Its a military location. Has been this way sense the border conflict of 2008. Non Thais only. not sure when it started, personal story, went in 2011 with my thai/american daughter ( she holds both passports) at the bottom you register with ur passport, i gave them our us passports. at the top, a guard asked her where she was from, she was only 16 and said thai. They stopped us, 15 minutes of phone calls back and forth and they finally agreed to allow us to proceed up to the temple. we had 2 armed mlitary guards and 3 police with us, They kept trying to seperate me from her and asking her questions about why she was there etc. She was almost in tears. They "led" us around ( no one else had any guards, guides) and kept pushing us to move on. A very bad experience. Few of my friends have driven across the border from thailand been to PV with their wifes an every one was refused to travel up to the temples. Last visited Preah Vihear with my wife and her family April 2008. June 2008 it was closed and has NOT reopened for any Thai national. On June 22, 2008, Cambodia closed the border crossing to Preah Vihear in response to Thai protests held at the border crossing. The protests were championed by an anti-Thaksin opposition figure, Sonthi Limthongkul, who claimed the government of Thai Prime Minister Samak Sudaravej had gained business concessions in Cambodia in return for ceding Thai territory to Cambodia when negotiating over the Preah Vihear site map that would be presented to UNESCO in Quebec, Canada http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian%E2%80%93Thai_border_dispute 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuketrichard Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 yes, thats when access was stopped for thais from the thai side, but no idea when they stopped allowing thais to acess the temple from the cambodian side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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