Total cost of ground transportation from Bangkok to Siem Reap, Cambodia, including the $1.70 (yes, $1.70 for a six hour, 200 mile ride) train ticket from Bangkok to the Cambodian border, tuk-tuk transportation across the border, and taxi ride to my hotel in Siem Reap: $23.
Cost of plane ticket from Bangkok direct to Siem Reap: $334.
Fact that there is a Thai-Cambodian border war taking place where I need to cross if I use ground transportation, a real live conflict with mortars and rockets and fleeing civilians: Priceless.
