In the forest, people kill a mad elephant with a stone. Mad Elephant

To get from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap, you have several options to consider. Here are the main types of transport that carry out transportation between these points:

• Bus

If the goal is to get to your destination as quickly as possible, then choose Air. If time is of the essence, and accessibility of the trip comes first, then you should give preference to the Bus.

The fare, of course, will depend on the type of transport chosen. Air tickets are the most expensive option. It will cost approximately VND 6,358,150. If you want to save money on moving, then choose the Bus: Bus tickets cost only VND 609,670.

How far is it from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap?

When traveling by land, it is important to understand the distance you will have to travel from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap. From Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap 700 km. In a straight line - as an airplane flies - the distance is 426 km.

How long does it take to get from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap?

The travel time from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap depends on the type of transport you use. In general, the trip usually lasts from 2 to 14 hours.

How much does it cost to travel from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap?

The cost of travel from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap varies depending on the means of transport you choose. Most budget option offers Kumho Samco (Kumho Samco): choose Bus and the ticket will cost you VND 609,670.

If you want to travel with greater comfort, then pay attention to Air and get ready to pay VND 6,358,150 for a one-way Air ticket.

We have compiled a list with estimated prices for travel from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap different types transport for general understanding:

• Bus tickets – VND 609.670 - VND 686.378;
• Flights – VND 2,792,528 - VND 6,358,150

There is always the option of ordering a taxi: the approximate cost of the trip will be from to.

How many flights per day between Ho Chi Minh City and Siem Reap?

The number of flights per day varies depending on the type of transport chosen.

• Flights between Ho Chi Minh City and Siem Reap operate during the day: as a rule, there are about 9 flights daily.
• Buses leave for the route at 07:00 in the morning, and the last flight leaves at 15:00 in the evening. A total of 3 buses run between Ho Chi Minh City and Siem Reap during the day.

The most popular modes of transport for travel from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap

How to choose the most convenient option for a trip from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap? To make your choice easier, we surveyed 1,000 travelers. Here are the voting results:

• 922 decided to go by bus.
• 78 travelers chose to fly.

The cost of a flight always depends on the time of travel. The chart will allow you to compare prices for air tickets from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap, track the dynamics of changes in their cost and find the best offer.

Statistics will help determine the season of low prices. For example, in April prices reach an average of 19,502 rubles, and in September the cost of tickets drops to an average of 10,292 rubles. Plan your trip now!

We analyze this information and create charts to make it easier for you to plan your trips.

What is more profitable – to buy air tickets in advance, avoiding the general rush, or to take advantage of a “hot” offer closer to the departure date? The chart will help you determine best time to purchase air tickets.

See how the price of air tickets from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap has changed depending on the time of purchase. Since the start of sales, their prices have changed by an average of 60%. The minimum price for a flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap is 17 days before departure, approximately 6,342 rubles. The maximum price for a flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap is 10 days before departure, approximately 20,439 rubles. In most cases early booking helps you save money, take advantage of it!

Airfare from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap is not fixed and constant amount. It depends on many factors, including the day of departure. The dynamics of changes are visible on the graph.

According to statistics, the most affordable flight option from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap is on Wednesdays, their average cost– 12,840 rubles. The most expensive flights are on Mondays, their average cost is 17,002 rubles. It is worth considering that flights on holidays are usually more expensive. We hope this information will help you plan your travels more effectively.

The cost of air tickets depends not only on the date, but also on the time of departure. An airline can operate several flights on one day, and they will differ in price category.

The graph shows the cost of departure depending on the time of day. For example, the average cost of a ticket from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap in the morning is 17,156 rubles, and in the evening 14,860 rubles. Evaluate all conditions and choose the best offer.

The graph shows comparative prices for air tickets from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap on the most popular airlines. Based on this information, you can plan your trip and buy air tickets from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap from the carrier that suits you.

Statistics will help you choose a flight based on your financial capabilities, as well as your wishes in terms of comfort and flight conditions. Most low prices AirAsia offers flight tickets from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap, the most high prices– Hahn Air.

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Siem Reap (also known as Siem Reap, Siem Reap and others) is a city in northern Cambodia, known as the main gateway to Angkor Wat. We tell you how to get to Siem Reap in 2016.

How to get to Siem Reap by plane

Siem Reap is home to Cambodia's second largest airport, Siem Reap International Airport (REP). Many airlines fly to this airport - both regular and low-cost airlines - from Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok, Pattaya and other cities. In general, you can fly to Siem Reap from almost any large city Southeast Asia. We recommend searching for the best air tickets using the aviasales service.

To get from the airport to Siem Reap city, you can take a taxi or tuk-tuk. A taxi from the airport to Siem Reap will cost about $37, a tuk-tuk is slightly cheaper.

In 2016, most hotels in Siem Reap offer free airport transfers if you book your accommodation in advance.

How to get to Siem Reap by bus

There are several reliable bus companies:

These companies travel to Siem Reap from different cities in Cambodia; mainly Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville, Poipet. Ticket prices and schedules can be found on the official websites listed above.

If you are traveling from Bangkok, be aware that there are frequent cases of fraud and deception of tourists at the border. If you are offered any additional services or border crossing services, be very careful. There are even “direct” buses from Bangkok to Siem Reap, which are part of a multi-level scam to extract as much money from tourists as possible.

How to get to Siem Reap by train from Bangkok

Due to the emergency condition of the train tracks in Cambodia, at the moment don't go. If you are traveling to Siem Rim from Bangkok, you can travel the first part of the journey by train.

Once you reach Cambodia, you go through state border, and you find yourself in the Cambodian border town of Poipet. From there you can get to Siem Reap by taxi or bus. As a rule, taxis are much more convenient and faster; The price of the trip is 30-50 dollars, depending on how much you bargain.

But we still didn’t get to neighboring Cambodia. We postponed the trip due to the proximity of the country, and now I started writing this article from the Kingdom of Cambodia. As you may have guessed from the title of the article, we went to Cambodia from Vietnam. In this article I will tell you how to get to and from Cambodia, touch on the visa issue a little and share our feedback about the road.

To Cambodia by plane

Most quick way getting to Cambodia is, of course, by air. It is also the most expensive:

As you can see from the screenshot above, the cheapest airfare will be in Sihanoukville from $106 roundtrip, then goes Siem Reap from $125 and ends with the capital of the Kingdom - Phnom Penh from $241. This is an example for April; for other months the price may vary. It is also worth considering seasonality. There are direct flights to Sihanoukville and Phnom Penh only from Ho Chi Minh City, but you can fly to Siem Reap from Hanoi, Da Nang or Ho Chi Minh City. Flights are operated by VietJetAir, Cambodia Angkor Air, Vietnam Airlines, SilkAir and Qatar Airways. You can also look at flights Vietnam - Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) - Cambodia separately from Air Asia.

A little about how to get to Cambodia from Ukraine and Russia

To Cambodia from Ukraine

There are not many flight options from Kyiv to Cambodia. As can be seen from the screenshot, the minimum round trip cost for March to Phnom Penh is $778 ↓

There will be 2 transfers: in Amsterdam and Hong Kong or in London and Singapore. Ukrainians can stay in Hong Kong visa-free for up to 14 days, and in Singapore there is visa-free transit for up to 96 hours. In London you can also go out; at the airport they put a stamp for 24 hours. Flights are operated by British Airways+JetStar and UIA+Cathay Pacific. You can make yourself a combined tour, for example, Thailand+Cambodia, Malaysia+Cambodia or Vietnam+Cambodia. It will turn out to be more interesting, and you can get tickets to one of these countries at a good price.

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To Cambodia from Russia

There are many more options from Russia to Cambodia and the price is almost 2 times cheaper. See for yourself↓

There are no direct flights to Cambodia, but there are at least 1 connection. A little about prices for round-trip flights up to $500 using Phnom Penh as an example. From Irkutsk - $401, flight operated by S7 with a transfer in Hong Kong; from Moscow - $414, flight operated by China Southern with a transfer to Guangzhou; from Vladivostok - $486, flights are operated by 2 airlines S7 and Cathay Pacific with transfers in Hong Kong. There are also flights from other cities. To visit Guangzhou, a transit visa is issued at the airport, but Russian citizens will not need a visa to visit Hong Kong.

The visa is issued immediately at the border.

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To Cambodia by bus

This method is the most popular for visaran (Vietnam visa renewal) and for visiting Cambodia in general. It is also the cheapest. The cost of a ticket from Ho Chi Minh City to Phnom Penh starts from $9 (the minimum we found). We took a ticket from Nha Trang to Phnom Penh with a transfer in Ho Chi Minh City (there are no direct buses). We bought tickets from TheSinhTourist and they cost us about $38 for two people one way. What we got in time:

• Nha Trang - Ho Chi Minh City 10 hours (we chose a night flight)
• Ho Chi Minh City - Phnom Penh 2.5 hours to the border and another 3 hours to the capital

If you want to visit Cambodia from Mui Ne or Vung Tau, the time to Ho Chi Minh City will be 5 and 2 hours, respectively. From Nha Trang our bus arrived an hour earlier than the planned time and we felt like squeezed lemons, we really wanted to sleep))) Since our next bus was in an hour (I deliberately chose so that we would have little time in Ho Chi Minh City), we did not have time relax a lot and already relaxed on the bus to Cambodia. All buses are comfortable: with air conditioning, free water and internet.

At the bus station we met some guys who were traveling from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap. Brave guys) there is no direct bus to Siem Reap and they still had to change trains in Phnom Penh. As a result, they spent about 22-24 hours on the road. I don’t yet take into account the waits between buses and at the border. We only had about an hour in Ho Chi Minh City, and they had about 2.5 hours. Hope they got there well.

Immediately after boarding the bus, around 7 am, our passports were collected and $35 was collected ($30 for the visa and $5 for the services of our guide-accompany). While we were driving to the border, our guide-controller filled out all the forms for us to clear customs. It seemed to me that we got to the border very quickly, a little less than 2.5 hours, and already at the beginning of 10 we were at the border. We passed the Vietnamese border very quickly, maybe 10-15 minutes. The accompanying guide gave our passports to the customs officers, they stamped our entry and we moved on.

We spent about 20 minutes at the Cambodian border.

The short duration is due to the fact that we need to leave all our fingerprints. But still very fast and efficient. In total, the road from Ho Chi Minh City to Phnom Penh, including border crossing, takes 6 hours.

We didn't fill out any paperwork at all. In my memory, this is the first border where we had to follow a guide and that’s it. It's very convenient and you don't have to worry about anything. The border was crossed as standard at Bavet.

Abroad, we had a short stop for lunch, where we bought chopped pineapples and green mango with salt and pepper for $1. Once you cross the border you don't expect much, but the Cambodian border is a paradise for casino lovers! Hotel-casinos begin as soon as you step foot on the red soil of Kampuchea (the old name of the Kingdom).

We arrived in Phnom Penh not at the main bus station (located near the station and the central market), as expected, but somewhere a couple of kilometers away. When purchasing tickets to Phnom Penh, check where the bus arrives. It’s good that Google maps worked offline and we were able to find our way around. As soon as we got off the bus, we were surrounded by tuk-tuk drivers. At first we refused, but the rain decided everything for us and, having paid $3, we were already rushing to our hotel.

Welcome to Cambodia!

Return road from Cambodia to Vietnam

There is a lot of information on how to get to Cambodia, but I couldn’t find any information on how to get back. Although this information is the most important and valuable. Now I'll tell you why.

Since on the way to Cambodia almost everyone foreign tourists you need a visa, the guide-accompany is very fussed with this. In the opposite direction, you may be the only tourists who will need a visa. Questions will be minimized if you already have a Vietnamese visa in your passport, but if you open it at the border (like us), then get ready for surprises)

We bought tickets to Ho Chi Minh City in Phnom Penh at one of the street travel agencies. Bus schedule from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City

The most popular bus company is Mekong, but the schedule did not suit us - 8:30 was too early and 14:00 was too late. Therefore, we chose the Kumho Samco Buslines company, their buses are comfortable: there is a footrest and the seats recline well, somewhat similar to Vietnamese slipping buses. The transfer arrived for us 30 minutes before departure. This time it was a taxi, and not the usual tuk-tuk.

The bus turned out to be not as new as on the way to Phnom Penh, but with the same amenities.

As many people write, the roads in Cambodia are not very paved, so the road from/to Phnom Penh from the border takes up to 4 hours. We also need to take into account the time it takes to cross the border. We got from Phnom Penh in about 3.5 hours.

We knew that to obtain a Vietnamese visa at the border we would need the original invitation.

More information about the Vietnam visa in the updated article -.

We ordered an invitation in advance in Nha Trang on the second line opposite the Omar restaurant. They made it for us in 5 days. It turned out that such an invitation is issued individually, and not as is the case with an invitation upon arrival, where you see everyone who requested a visa during the same period

There was a planned stop for 20 minutes before the border. Our bus guide was not very good at English; with gestures and fragments of phrases we managed to understand that we had to go to the border ourselves and get a visa. They will pick us up on the Vietnamese side. Here I briefly described our conversation, which lasted about 10 minutes, but time flies. Since we had to go to the border ourselves, we decided to take a suitcase with us as well. Yes, just in case

As soon as we left the bus, we were immediately surrounded by resourceful Khmers offering to take us to the border on a moped for only $2 per person. My suitcase and I didn’t want to ride on the same bike, and the drivers’ intrusiveness only put us off. I was not at a loss and began to slow down the cars passing by. It's like a mini hitchhiking stop. We had to wait less than a minute and we were already driving away in a comfortable car. You should have seen the faces of the moped drivers)))

We crossed the Cambodian border quickly. We were only asked for an invitation to Vietnam and that’s all. The distance between border points is 3-5 minutes on foot and we are already at the Vietnamese border. As you remember from the photo above, the border is so-so)

The queue for obtaining a visa is small, but the employee is not even in a hurry to somehow speed things up and sit quietly and relax. He constantly needed to go out somewhere and talk to someone. For us, the problem was a Japanese citizen who came to the border and was expecting a miracle. He didn’t speak Vietnamese at all, and the only documents he had were a passport. They sorted things out with him for a long time. It was very hot and stuffy in the building; powerful fans did not help. As a result, I lost consciousness... It was scary, considering that we still had to long haul to Nha Trang. But don’t worry too much, I moved away quickly enough. People in line helped me. But the Vietnamese didn’t even think to call a doctor or nurse. Sorry, but there will be no selfie of a broken nose)))

My fall did not speed up our getting a visa or passing through passport control (I stood in line like everyone else with a broken nose). Oh, I completely forgot to mention. Our bus driver, even when we were standing in line to get a visa, told us that he couldn’t wait for us any longer and we could leave on the next bus. Shock! Curtain! Fainting!

Maybe it’s better that I still had time to come to my senses. At the border we waited another hour for our company's (Kumho) bus. The Cambodian Internet worked for us and we checked on the carrier’s website that the next bus left at 13:00 and should be at the border at about 17:00. Guys, for a minute we left at 11:00! From 16:30 we waited for the bus for another hour... then, tired of waiting, we started asking the drivers of other buses (of which there were a lot) if they would take us to Ho Chi Minh City. A couple of buses didn’t suit us; they weren’t going to Pham Ngu Lao Street, but the Giant Ibis bus was just going where we needed it. For $10 he agreed to let us down. We were in Ho Chi Minh City around 20:00. The return journey from Phnom Penh took us instead of 6 hours, as much as 9.

I had already come to my senses and I didn’t want to stay in Ho Chi Minh City for one night at all. We went in search of tickets to Nha Trang. Just opposite where we were dropped off was the Hanh Cafe office and their last bus to Nha Trang was at 21:00. We arrived on the eve of the Chinese New Year and the rush for tickets has already begun. Although the celebration in 2017 will begin on January 27, within a week all bus companies begin to raise prices. Our ticket from Ho Chi Minh City to Nha Trang cost the same as from Nha Trang to Phnom Penh

Phew, this is what the road from Vietnam to Cambodia and back looks like. My advice to you: if you are traveling back from Cambodia to Vietnam, take better ticket to the border, and then on the Vietnamese side, take any bus. Another option is to buy tickets Phnom Penh - Kuala Lumpur - Ho Chi Minh City. There will be less stress, and at the same time look at the CL!

Have a nice trip!

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TO human casualties led to an attack of elephant rage in India: two wild elephants immediately burst into the city of Mysore, in the state of Karnataka in the south of the country, and began to destroy it. One operated on the territory of a women's college, the other in residential areas, the BBC reports.

The fact of the death of one of the townspeople has been reliably established: a 55-year-old resident of the Bambu-Bazaar district, a security guard by profession, came out of his house in response to the noise, and an elephant trampled him to death, the minister said higher education State of S.A. Ramdas.

The animals went on a rampage for three hours. They came to Mysore from a forest located 35 kilometers away. The authorities closed everything educational institutions in the city and urged residents not to go out and throw stones at the elephants, so as not to anger them even more.

In the shocking video footage obtained by the Indian television company New Delhi Television, they even had to reduce the clarity of the image of an elephant that was dragging along the pavement, tossing and trampling a man. The elephant also killed a cow on a city street and tried to race a bus.

To cope with mad elephants, it was necessary to use their trained relatives, on whose backs armed men sat. Their guns fired syringes containing sleeping pills. Eventually, local zoo workers euthanized the elephants and took them in. The animals will subsequently be released into the wild, Minister Ramdas said.

Meanwhile, two more wild elephants are running around somewhere in the city's vicinity, authorities warn.

“The uncontrolled expansion of agricultural land, the increasingly intensive movement of people and cars along the traditional elephant migration route lead to the fact that wild elephants are entering villages and towns in search of food and shelter," said one local official.

Elephant attacks on humans are not that uncommon in Karnataka. However, it is not customary to kill these animals there: the elephant is one of the symbols of the state. Therefore, the elephant population is constantly growing. The number of clashes with people, who take more and more resources from elephants, is also increasing.

With the decrease in forest area, elephants are left without their traditional habitat. In desperation, they not only kill people, but also trample crops and destroy houses. As a result of “human-elephant conflict,” as conservationists are already calling this situation, wildlife, elephants feel literally driven into concentration camps, notes The Daily Mail, so they attack their “jailers.”

About two thousand elephants live in the forest surrounding Mysore, one of the experts explained. This is the largest population of Indian elephants. More and more often they come out of the forest in search of food.

The panic that the townspeople greeted the elephants made it difficult for the authorities to neutralize the jungle aliens. “If the police and the forest department had not been bothered, they would have solved the problem quickly enough - but people behave very stupidly, gather in crowds and poison animals - and then the animals are called wild. They find themselves in an unfamiliar place, they are frightened by noise, crowds, and that’s why they behave this way,” the expert said.