Francesco Mantovani

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April 2015: A visa on arrival is required (at leas...

April 2015: A visa on arrival is required (at least if you hold an Italian or an Australian passport). At the entrance of the immigration little room, a guard will give you a little piece of paper where you will mainly fill a form declaring that you are not sick - health form. The other two papers, for entry and departure, will have been filled on the flight to Cambodia.

You willy then queue to get a visa form and, if you don't have a passport photo, paying an extra US$2 will be sufficient to have one photo organized on the spot. They will hold you passport for about 5 mins, sometimes same group of people may experience different time. Mine was done in 5 mins, my partner it took 15 mins. Same type of passport.. Don't ask them why ;-)

There is an ATM in the room, you can withdraw up to US $250.00 (this is the ATM limit independent from your card/bank limit) and there is a $5 commission (in all Cambodia I have always found a $5 commission at the ATMs).

After 10 mins your visa is ready and you will have to pay US$30 to get the passport with the visa label on it. It is a 30 day visa and work is obviously not permitted.

Enjoy Phnom Penh.
Btw A taxi to the city is about US$10-12, but I would strongly suggest you to get out of the airport, this means just walking 200 meters, and take a tuk tuk (a motorcycle with attached a 4/6 pax seats) for about US$6 (the may ask you $10 but you should tell them always half of what they ask you). Faster, safe as the taxi but with no Aircon.. You will enjoy it. And the ride around in the middle of the highly congested streets of Cambodia's capital. In the city a tuk tuk will cost $5 independently where you wanna go. but if you tell them half of it, $2.50, this will still be a great deal for the young tuk-tuk driver. Trust me, he will be more than happy to take you around at that price.. That is for them about uS$25.

US$1 = 4000 real on April 2015, I think the exchange is fixed. Thus 1000 real are 25c. To understand the value of the money you should multiply x 10 their prices and this should what you pay in your West Country. A beer is US$0.5/$1, then you multiply it for 10, and you get $5 or $10 that are the prices in America or in Australia.. Converting to euros you see that are exactly 3/ 6 euros that is what you pay in most West Europe countries..
On the ATM you will withdraw in US$, and only if you wanna take some very small amounts you can withdraw 40000 reals, that are US$10!

Enjoy this wonderful place