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Arriving at Siem Reap airport is a very strange experience, once you get off the plane you have to queue to have a visa stamped in your passport and pay for the pleasure of it. You enter the terminal building told to stand in line before being summoned by one of the twelve or so Generals sitting holding court. Your passport seems to get shown to every one of them twice, before someone makes a decision to stamp it and wave you on your way 20 dollars lighter. We made a point of getting some US dollars before we went because everyone seems to prefer this currency instead of their own and everything seemed to cost 2 dollars. Our transfers were included in the price so we didn’t have to wait long and it was only a short distance to the splendid colonial style Victoria Angkor Hotel.After checking in we went for a walk to see what was near the hotel, not much really a shopping mall and a few shops, everything else was in town by the market 5 minutes away by Tuk-Tuk and costs 2 do