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Before leaving for Cambodia, I read some guide books.It seems you must pay a little ext-money for passing through the customs soon.Most travellers get angry about this, including me!（Who knows, I've never been to that place,why am I also angry!?）Anyway,I told Gab "I am not going to pay any ext-money"!
Hey~now I am going to brake this "mystery"!

In fact, after arriving the small cute airport, there are a lot of things and documents waiting for you, especially for us-backpackers.First, we need to apply for the visa, it will take you $20. And you also need to give them 1 photo (2 inches in size).If there aren't any photos with you(like Gab), maybe they ask you to pay $2 more.

OK, when you get the visa,(oh the visa is just cute!)it's time to pass through the customs.Gab and I spend a lot of time to get the visa, so when we wait in line for passing it through, there are almost no other travellers.
There are only 2 lines, but they have 3-4 police men in each line. And there are also the web camera in front of each policeman on the table. When it's my turn, I go forward while thinking about what they will do if I don't pay any exr-money.Out of my inmagination, the procedure goes quite smoothly, I stay there for 2-3 minutes or so.Finally, he asked me to direct to the web-camera.It's absolutely the most embarrassing moment because I don't know I shall smile or not, ok!if I smile I should show him my teeth or not.Anyway, I give him a small smile.The policeman laughed and said "Gong-Xi-Fa-Cai"(which is really suitable at the timing).He gave me back the passport without any request.
After passing through the customs, there are another 2 policemen standing in front of the exit.They asked us to fill out another appilication form.That is the last application form.Finally, it's finished.

No ext-money.No trouble. Thanks God! I broke the mystery!

There is only one thing I want to remind all the backpackers who want to visit Cambodia--there are 3 application forms totally, fill them out in the airplane!

前往柬埔寨之前，我就在導遊書還有網路上聽聞了當地的海關會多收一點"小費"好讓通關可以順利進行。大多數的觀光客都對這點感到憤怒，我也是！（即使我一直都只是"聽聞"而已）我跟同行的Gab說我不打算負任何多的費用。
嘿～我要打破這個迷思！
事實上，一到了暹粒機場，就得開始做好準備，因為有一大堆的文件等著你去填寫。第一道手續先拿到落地簽，申請落地簽的費用是20美金，外加一張大頭照，我的朋友Gab忘了帶，他們讓她多付兩塊美金以彌補這個空白的照片處，到此為止沒有人跟我們多收任何不合理的費用。：）
拿到Visa之後，就得準備通關了，因為我們兩都不懂柬埔寨話，也尚未熟悉柬式英語，所以在申請Visa的時候耽擱了一點小時間，等到去排通關處，已經看不見剛下飛機時那麼多的觀光客了！
通關處非常可愛就有兩道通關處，每道各有兩張大桌子，一張桌子大概可以坐三到四個警察，在桌上還擺設了好幾台webcamera。輪到我的時候，我一邊走一邊想他們到底會對我怎麼樣如果我硬是不肯多付錢的話。出乎我的想像，整個過程非常順利，我大概只花了2-3分鐘等他檢查我的護照吧！最後他要我對著桌上那台相機，我想這是最尷尬的時刻了，因為我不知道要不要微笑，好那如果笑的話，要不要露牙齒？？！！Anyway，我最後還是給了他一個很尷尬的微笑，這個警察居然突然大笑還跟我”恭喜發財”！他把護照還給我，並沒有多收任何小費！
通過海關之後，我們終於要出關了，出口處的地方站了兩個警察，他們要求我們給他們另一式的申請入境表，這是最後一道手續，終於結束了！
沒有任何多付的費用，沒有碰到任何被刁難的麻煩，感謝主！我打破這個迷思！

如果一定要我說什麼的話，我只想提醒所有前往柬埔寨的背包客們，那個...入境柬國一共要填三張表。那三張表格啊...請在飛機上就把它們填一填吧～

I tried all kinds of ways to get the ticket to Cambodia, but as you can imagine, it's the Chinese New Year now!It's impossible to get even ONE ticket. Just before giving up this trip, I find the airline company...ANGKOR AIRLINE!

Angkor Airline.....to be honest, I never heard it before.However,I could't deny it really offers the best way to fly from here to Siem Reap, where I am going to visit. Jeremy, who takes the resposibility to contact with me always does his best to solve all the troubles that I made during booking the tickets.
The boarding time is 16:00，my partner-Gab and I arrive there pretty early,around 13:00. I am sure both of us are extremely excited, but get to airport earlier helps us to be able to be elegant.Excited......but elegent!It will take 3 hours and half to fly there.I look at the cloud out of the window, Angkor,I am coming!

在網路上找了各種方式訂票，但過年期間大家想也知道怎麼都訂不到票。在萬念俱灰的情形下，我找到了吳哥航空。
吳哥航空--一家我從來沒聽過的航空公司。但是我無法否認，要從台北飛到吳哥所在的暹粒(Siem Reap)這個城市，吳哥航空絕對是首選中的首選！負責的Jeremy自始至終真的是為我們服務到最後一刻，我知道我很會惹麻煩，但他總是替我們一一排除障礙，我無話可說。
登機的時間是下午四點，這次同行的同伴Gab和我差不多一點多就到了，時間完全不趕，我知道我們倆都很興奮，但等候上機的這段期間讓我們很優雅的辦完所有手續，興奮.....但是優雅！:P從這飛到吳哥大概要花上三個半小時，飛機外藍藍的天空跟白雲，吳哥，我要來了！

那個時候，我還不知道我去吳哥真正的意義。

一直到很最近很最近很最近，我才知道這個世界上有個叫吳哥窟的地方，也一直到很最近很最近很最近，我才發現原來高棉就是柬埔寨，柬埔寨就是高棉。若不是因為這趟旅程，我想我會有很多事情一直搞不懂！
真正說到這次要出發前往吳哥窟，其實有很多遠因跟近因。去年夏天我跟班上的韓國同學聊天，她告訴我她要去Cambodia玩，她問我中文怎麼說。我的老天啊～Cambodia！？What's that？那個時候我上網查，才回答出她這個問題。查的過程中居然被我發現，這個地方好妙啊，有個身為世界七大奇景之一的吳哥窟，而重點是旅行社推出的各式吳哥行程，便宜又大碗的讓人眼花瞭亂！我開始想，如果有一天我很想出國而又沒有太多錢的話，我一定要參加這個行程。
過了很久的上學期，一直很忙，有一天我們班的同學問我要不要跟她一起去北海道看雪祭，我是也很想去看，但無奈我有假的時候雪祭還沒開始，只能跟她說抱歉，但是這個遺憾居然促使我這個假期一定要出國的動力，去哪呢？就去這個"應該不用花很多錢"的吳哥窟吧！
這就是我這次前往柬埔寨最坦白且原始的初衷，當大家問我：「柬埔寨？你去柬埔寨幹嘛？」的時候，我堂堂正正打著「去看世界七大奇景的吳哥窟啊！」的名號，還一邊添油加醋的補充著「聽說過不久要聯合國要暫時封閉維修呢！」這種理由，來遮蓋我「只是想出國去透氣」的這種奢侈。

是的，那個時候，我還不知道我去吳哥真正的意義。