Arrival

We left Thailand about three weeks ago, and crossed the border with Cambodia at Arunyaprathet (Thai) and Poi Pet (Cambodia), which was an experience in itself. We had overstayed our Thai visa by a week because of my hospital stay in Bangkok, which is not a problem as the Thais just fine you 200 Baht per day, but we were still a little apprehensive about it.
On the day we were crossing the border there were hundreds and hundreds of Thais waiting to cross to go to the casinos in Cambodia (gambling is illegal in Thailand, and it was pay day for a lot of Thais), so the queues were long and slow moving.... This was only made worse by the fact that the immigration post was having computer problems.
After about an hour in the sun, it dawned on us that the US currency we had was going to be no good, we had $600 in hundreds and one $20 note (it was all we could get from the bank we went to a week before), the Cambodian visa was US$20 and on seeing the border post, I couldn't see them offering us our $60 change. We decided we would have to leave the queue and go to the bank to get some smaller notes.
After leaving the queue, rejoining it at the end, and waiting for another two hours we finally left Thailand, and walked the 800 metres to the Cambodian immigration post.
All seemed to be getting easier..... I took one look at the Cambodian visa form and my heart sunk (to say the least..... I may have even yelled an expletive or fifty)..... "Attach one passport sized photo here"..... Getting some more passport photos was on of the things I had to do in the week we had in Bangers before we left for Cambodia, but I had ended up in hospital and had completely forgotten about it.

Faced with the possibility that I would be stuck in the no mans land between Thailand and Cambodia our conversation went a little like:
Tim: F&!%
Traci: S**!
Tim: F&!%, S**!, F&!%
Traci: S**!, F&!%, S**!

We ended up learning 2 very important lessons about Cambodia...
1. Money talks, and if you have it, you can basically do anything you like.
2. Cambodia is corrupt to the core.

I told the border guard that I had no photo, slipped him 100 baht (AU$3), and sat down to wait for the visa (well, hope for a visa).
We ended up getting our visas quicker than anyone else in the queue!

Since we have been here we have even been offered police badges and hats which wouldn't be weird except that it was police men who were trying to sell them to us. I'm sure they would sell you their guns or grandmothers if you flashed enough dollars.