Lantern Tree, Chiang Rai

Chiang Rai to Huay Xai

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December 22nd 2009
The 2hr bus from Chiang Rai to Chang Khong cost us a whopping 65 THB...or AU $2.20. The entire distance was travelled with both doors wide open and our fingers crossed our bags didn't fling out on the corners. Once in Chiang Khong we took a tuk tuk for 30THB each to Thai immigration, got stamped, jumped on a longtail boat for the 2 minute journey across to Laos. Immigration there is quite straig ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more