Both Vietnam and Cambodia are famous world places for who travels to Indochina where anyone should not miss during an awesome trip. Besides, Vietnam and Cambodia share a long border. For those reasons, the crossings have increased yearly and most of travelers choose to get Cambodia from Vietnam or contrary. There are variety ways to choose: by flights, by land, by boats.
There are two airlines operate flights from Vietnam to Cambodia: Vietnam airlines and Cambodia Air. Tourist will depart from Ho Chi Minh city or Hanoi to get Phnom Penh or SiemRiep. The details as bellows:
1. HCMC (SGN)- Phnom Penh (PNH)- From 40mins-50mins
2. HCMC (SGN)- Siem Reap (REP)- About 1h15mins
3. Hanoi (HAN)- Phnom Penh (PNH)- About 3h15mins
4. Hanoi (HAN)- Siem Reap (REP)- About 2hours.
Siem Reap airport is about 6 kilometers far from city center so travelers can choose either taxi or motorbike. From Phnom Penh airport, there are three kinds of vehicles: Taxi, motorbike or tuktuk.
1. By motorbikes:
The interesting thing is that tourist can cross border of Vietnam and Cambodia by motorbike. However, driver has to registered with custom before and gets license- which is accepted by Cambodia government.
2. By buses:
From HCM city, it takes 6 hours to get Phnom Penh and around 10 to 11 hours to get Siem Reap by bus. There are wide range of bus for travelers can choose: Sapaco, Mailinh Express, KumhoSamcobuslines or Mekong Express Limousine bus.
3. From Pnom Penh also has many buses to Siem Reap and above companies also provide this service. From Siem Reap bus station to the center about 2 kilometers so people can choose either walking or tuktuk.
From HCM city, get An Giang province then takes boat to Cambodia passing Vinh Xuong border gate, the boat cruises on Mekong river.
Range of time between 4h30mins to 6h30mins which depends on boats’ speed. There are many choices for boat from Vietnam to Cambodia from decent boats to luxury boats. And fast boat service is available from Chau Doc to Phnom Penh.
