Cambodia: Bangkok --> Siem Reap OR The One With The Missing Towel Incident

Bathroom early shift started at 6am this morning, since we had to leave the hotel by 7am. Luckily I had the late shift of 6:45am. At check out the lady at reception told us to wait a moment and sent one of the housekeeping boys to our room for a check. Low and behold he came back reporting that a small towel was missing. Indeed, they hadn't put new ones after cleaning, we just hadn't reported it. Had I known the drama this morning I would have. She checked a file saying housekeeping confirmed they had put small towels, I repated they hadn't been put back after cleaning and off the went to the office, to call the manager I assume. By then it was 7:15am and we weren't gonna miss our flight because of a towel. So we agreed that if she insisted it was lost we'd rather pay for the towel so we would be able to leave. However, she came back saying it was ok. So off we were. Only to discover that during rush hour there are no cabs on our street and we were advised to walk down to the main road. Seeing several taxis that were already full, we flagged the first one down but the guy was too impatient for us to explain where to go. The second one finally worked out and we got to Don Muang airport on time.

We opted for the healthy American breakfast option of McDonald's/Subway followed by Krispy Kreme and then Starbucks for coffee. :)
Luckily Air Aisa, supposedly the Asian Ryan Air turned out to be fine and between a quick power nap, filling in three different forms for immigration and enjoying the view we landed in Cambodia in no time.

Upon leaving the plane we received a 4th form so we ended up at a table outside the arrivals hall filling in a health form, then on to the line for the visa. Process as follows: Hand documents to one guy who checks forms and takes 20$ for the visa, 2$ extra if you don't have a photo for the visa and they need to scan your passport photo, walk down three counters where your passport will eventually get as well after being passed from the first guy to several other people. Last but not least the lady who held up each passport for collection, not saying a word since she was busy with her iPhone, headphones in ears. Best job ever. :) Then on to immigration, baggege claimd and customs and we were finally in Cambodia.
The taxi stand listed a price of 7$ for a taxi into down, same price I had read about in the Lonely Planet, so no need for bargaining this time and in no time we had a taxi and a friendly driver who doubled as a tour guide. He suggested driving out to a floating village and doing the temples of Angkor tomorrow, for 30$ he'd be our driver for the day.

After dropping off our luggage at the guesthouse we were off to our first Cambodian adventure. Drove out to the boat pier and had a private boat which took us to the floating village of Chong Knea. I felt like someone had beamed me into a parallel universe.
After a two hour tour and water from a fresh coconut the driver took us back to Siem Reap to see the downtown area. We had Amok, one of the local dishes which was delicious. 

The plan of driving up to a mountain for sunset to get a first view of Angkor Wat were canceled due to the torrential downpour that followed. We were exhausted anyway so we really didn't mind though. :)