Bangkok Post
Thailand and Cambodia will launch the first bus services linking Bangkok with Siem Reap and Phnom Penh in the next two weeks.
The first bus service between the two countries will debut on Dec
29, said The Transport Co, a state enterprise under the Transport
Ministry.
The service includes the Bangkok-Siem Reap route, a 424-kilometre
trip that takes about seven hours. The two countries will provide two
trips a day. The fare will be 750 baht or US$25.
The Bangkok-Phnom Penh service, covering 719km and taking 11 hours, will run once a day with a fare of 900 baht or $30.
Air-conditioned buses will serve both routes, which will run through Aranyaprathet district in Sa Kaeo province.
Siem Reap, the home of Angkor Wat, is the most popular tourist destination for Thai and foreign travellers visiting Cambodia.
Transport Co managing director Wutthichart Kalayanamit signed an
agreement with Natthakarn (Cambodia) Co at the state enterprise's head
office in Bangkok on Friday.
Transport Co plans to eventually provide as many as 20 trips a day on
both routes if needed to meet the rising demand of travellers between
the two countries.
Niyom Waiyaratpanich, vice-president of the Thai Chamber of Commerce,
said the Thai-Cambodian bus routes reflected the goal of Asean to build
more links among its 10 members.
The new bus routes will help accommodate an expected upturn in travel
when the Asean Economic Community is launched in late 2015, he added.
1 comment:
Do business with Siam is better than Yiekcong,at least we share the same religion and custom unlike yiekcong they are stupid greedy invader land plungerers.
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