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i had already packed the night previous to the morning of my departure

Summary: i had already packed the night previous to the morning of my departure for siem reap early that morning i gingerly picked up my bags and went down to the lobby to settle our bill ryan and patrick were quickly whisked away by the bus company for their 7am bus to phnom penh i had an extra 30 minutes to wait for my bus my companions for this part of the trip were ai jojo and hanz who was convinced to join only the previous day we boarded our sapaco tours bus a spacious carriage with a toilet which i never got to use during the 12 hour journey i slept through most of the ride including the part when the bus rolled onto a barge to cross a bridgeless river on the cambodia side i woke up only for immigration at the border between vietnam and cambodia for an islander like myself whose nation s borders are imaginary lines out in open sea i do not quite know the sensation of sharing borders or stepping into foreign territory with a single bound i had previously done something similar last november when i walked into myanmar without a visa by pretending to be thai i already looked the part so i just shut up completely and nodded when the border police said something so i ve always wondered how a border would look like nature s fences like mountains and riverine channels might be obvious markers but how do you delineate the edges of your territory is there some wall or other erected by vietnam along the thousands of kilometers of land it shares with cambodia and laos i only caught a glimpse of the border crossing in bavet and i became only fully awake when we finally reached phnom penh

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