I learn something new every week; it helps keep me young. This week it was the rigmarole that surrounds getting a Cambodian passport. My current official consort/senior member of the (non-exclusive in my case) harem needs to get a new passport. Apparently it's not the simple matter that the Thais have more or less mastered - toddle off to the passport office at Klong Toei or elsewhere, cough up 1,000 baht and two or three days later there's a brand spanking new Thai passport either delivered or available for pick up. In Cambodia there's a very expensive service for delivery in roughly the same period of time - I'm talking several thousand baht - or you can wait ... and wait until it's ready for collection. This TripAdvisor thread from 6 years ago sets out the process - and it only lasts for 3 years, not the five (soon to be ten) years the Thais get - https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopi...-Cambodia.html

Wikipedia reports a lesser cost since machine-readable passports were introduced in 2014 but comments that Cambodian passports are still among the most expensive in Asia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_passport - and waiting times can still be expected

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