Road Trip from Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) to Phnom Penh , Capital of Cambodia

HCMC to Phnom Penh, the Capital of Royal Kingdom of Cambodia is at a distance of 230km and can be reached by 3 ways:

1. Water ways – Ferry – not recommended because of high cost, waste of time and not so scenic route
2. Air Ways – Flights – Cost around 165 USD for one way trip from HCMC (SGN) to Phnom Penh (PNH) and takes around 50 minutes
3. Road Ways – Bus (Mekong Express, Giant Ibis) takes around 16 USD and 6 hours. There is also van service provided by some of these bus operators. Those van cost 2-3$ more than the bus tickets and have less space but if you want privacy with a family of 5-7 persons then it can be availed.

We took the Giant Ibis bus at 16 USD and there was a stop at Boarder Bevet for Cambodia Visa processing. The bus conductor took 2$ for visa formalities and processed all our visas. At other side of Cambodia, we stopped for having lunch.

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You can also buy a local sim card of Cambodia at those visa offices sold by local people at 2$ and the sim gets activated without any documentation. It’s advisable to have a local sim for better connectivity.

You will reach Phnom Penh by 2-4 PM local time. Make sure to book the Sunset Boat Cruise at Mekong from Phnom Penh ticket online a day prior if you want to utilize the evening on the same day you reach there. As the last ferry for Sunset Cruise leaves by 5 PM local time and you will have only time to check in to hotel and get fresh and reach to the port boarding point for cruise.

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In case you don’t want to do cruise, you can roam around the banks of the river and spend some time in the river bank near the royal palace in the evening which has quite good crowd, a Vishnu Temple and glittering ferries crossing the river.

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Ramayana came to Cambodia in Second century AD as per National Archives.

Even the walls of the Angkor Wat is inscribed with stone arts of the war between Ram and Ravan in Ramayana

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