The worst bus trip ever!!!

Muddy faces at the tender trip to the border
Originally uploaded by Irit & Ophir Maor.

We booked a bus from Siam Rip to Bangkok. That part was easy. The following day we were told to be ready at 7am. We woke up and waited at our hotel as we were told. After one hour they just showed up with a small tender to take us to the bus. On the way they stopped to take a table from another hotel. That was ok at least we are on our way to the bus.... When we reached to the bus we found up that the first bus was already out and we are going with the second bus which meant waiting 30 minutes more. When the bus came we were really happy at least we are getting into the bus even thought the bus was really old! After 4 hours in the bus with 2 major stops (flat tier and a torn belt) to fix the bus the bus broke down and we could not continue with it. They tried to fix it for 2 hours and after that time they said that there is nothing else they can do and they ordered another transportation to take us to the border. it was already 15:00. After 1 hour a tender came in and they said this is our ride. We were shocked of course because there were 20 people on the bus and 20 big bags! Eventually all of us fitted to the tender with the bags but the one outside had to suffer the dirt on the face as there is no real road there. At 19:00 we crossed the border! Muddy as hell but at least the border was still open. After we crossed the border to Thailand everything went really fast! The bus was new with 2 floors and within 4 hours we got to Bangkok!!!! When we got to Bangkok we couldn't find a place to stay and we had to tell a toktok to take us to a vacant hotel but this is another story!