Thailand and Cambodia launched the first direct bus services linking Bangkok with Siem Reap and Phnom Penh during the week end.
BANGKOK- First bus services between the two Kingdoms of Cambodia and Thailand had their debut on December 29, said the Transport Co.,
a Thai 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
719 km 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. Transport Co
works in cooperation with Cambodian bus company Natthakarn Co. Both
companies have large ambitions to boost connectivity between both
countries. 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.
The new bus routes will help accommodate an expected upturn in travel
when the Asean Economic Community is launched in early 2016.
Transport
Co is planning to open more international routes in 2013 in addition to
BKK - Phnom Penh and BKK - Siem Reap. The company looks at eventually
start early next year new routes from Siem Reap to Sisaket/Ubon
Ratchathani; from Siem Reap to Pattaya; from Battambang to Chanthaburi
and from Sihanoukville to Trat. The company has the ambition to expand
to Myanmar and Vietnam in 2014 with routes from Bangkok to Yangon, from
Mae Sot to Myawaddy and from Chiang Rai to Kentung.
There is also a direct bus link between Bangkok and Vientiane as well as Bangkok-Nakhon Ratchasima and Viengchan.
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