question about visa run in Ranong Hello,
just 2 questions :
- I thought it was 10 dollars to cross the border
- We are a french family of 5 people (3children) do we all have to cross the border or can the father do it for the family ???
Thanks for your answers and your informations
Regards
Jean Couturier
Kenya 1971 with wife & 7 months old daughter spent 2 years in Kiboko (Hippopotamus) Lane in Kisumu. Saw quite a lot of Kenya including Tsavo, East & West, Amboseli, Lake Nakuru & Naivasha & many other places off the tourist route. Of course we went to Samburu and then that awful road from Nanyuki to Thomson's Falls in our Ford Cortina. A magical 2 years. David Booth, Master Mariner.
Just done the visa run Hi, I've just done the visa run and I just wanted to let you know that passport control has now been moved to the pier. Do not go to the immigration office first as they turned me away and just pointed me in the direction of the pier where they moved it late last year. It's just been made a lot easier!!!
Still OK for this run? Hi,
I am currently in Thailand and have just discovered that its not as easy to get a renewal in the country as I imagined. I've read your very helpful blog and would just like to know if it's still relevant as on the FCO website states:
"A visa is required to visit Burma. Visa on arrival was suspended from 1 September 2010. British nationals should apply for a visa in advance at the nearest Burmese embassy or Consulate before travelling.
Any queries on entry requirements should be directed to the nearest Burmese Embassy not to the British Embassy in Rangoon."
Or does this not matter and that's what the $10 fee is for?
Are there any other border crossings that offer the same service further north?
Many thanks
Andy
Thanks for posting this I stayed at Khao Lak Laguna Resort for about a week in 2001 - You're right about Phuket, and I don't know why anyone would take their kids there. The beach cottage I had was so beautiful, and the $35 / day covered brunch on the terrace. All in all, a very quiet, nice and unknown part of Thailand.
Need playground contacts please hello, i loved the project you worked on! hey... I am visiting Kenia right now (i am from Guatemala). I am visiting a trainning center for deaf people, we want to build a playground for the kids of the people who live here and have not been succesful finding who can sell the equipment for a fair price... what we have seen so far is way too expensive... do you have any contacts we can talk to and find a place that would sell the equipment? thank you very much
kudos Thats a great thing you guys did there. Was wondering if you'd tell me where i can buy playground equiment for a programme we are undertaking to build a playground in Ruiru
Wilhelm, I not aware of any "legal" procedure to enter into Burma without a passport or stamp. That would be quite dangerous if for any reason you get detained. Your "slip" you get from Thailand will not help you in securing your identification. Besides, what's going on behind the scenes with your passport in Thailand while you are gone?? I've heard they use the information for bringing in contraband from Indonesia. I say pay the 1900BHT and be safe. The costs could be much greater if you find yourself in trouble...even if you are innocent. With no ID, even your consul in Burma won't know who you really are.
I am only sharing what I know and don't claim to know it all. You're best served if you contact the Myanmar consulate in Bangkok or other country before entering. This is the best advice I can give. Thanks for reading and sharing! Have a safe journey.
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You are not a stupid face Everyone pays the $10USD to get into Burma, unless you are Thai or Burmese. That is the way things are and you must accept them. Hope you understand. Just like when I was in Venice, I was charged more for a hotel room because I was a tourist. ;)
i have the face of the stupid probabli people can see from one km that i trust in every lie,because they make me pay 10 usa dollars,just two week ago,to enter in burma.
Probably is because i'm from Italy,and may be immigration law change from nation to nation,but i would like to know if they kid me?
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photocopy You will need a photocopy of your passport to take into the little green building. Of course they will do it but you get charged for it. Then you haev to go to the building opposite teh green building on your return from town to get your exit visa...most important
Visit to Burma - non visa run Is there a way to get into Burma without stamps in the passport? i.e i want to vissit over there, but I have a retirement visa and a reentry would cost me Baht 1900.
At the Golden Triangle there is a procedure, you leave your passport with the Thai immigration and get a passage slip only. With this slip you enter int Burma for 1 day. If you come back to Thailand you return the slip and get your passport back without any stramp.
Is there a similar procedure in Ranong??
Thanks for any comment
Wilhelm
Note on Nelson Wow, what an amazing blog. I love the fact that you write what you you see, and look at. It sounds real, and I know it is.
A note on Nelson:
Some Africans have a very hard time seeing the damage and deterioration of the continent. I feel him, and may be if you add some positive/regular/normal great things in your blog - Did you only visit the poor parts of Nairobi/Kenya? May be next time visit the middle class, the rich or just regular people who are not poor and not in need of Aid?
visa run to ranong my god i made this procedure 75 times for my vietnamese girl and your comments are very precise and right....i stopped to do that but will do it again as of next month and i hope everything still the same i used to known personnaly the thai officers at the immigration and long after months of doing it i bring them [not requested] a bottle of whisky as they were always very polite and nice....at least to me good comments ,hope i find it the same next month
immigration office hello,
The visa run from phuket are very expensive, and i will go to ranong (can visit in the same time) by motocycle.
But i don't find on google map the immigration office in Ranong and ranong pier.
can you show me on google map in ranong city where is it, and send the jpg picture on my email.
Thank you
kind regard
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question about visa run in Ranong
Hello, just 2 questions : - I thought it was 10 dollars to cross the border - We are a french family of 5 people (3children) do we all have to cross the border or can the father do it for the family ??? Thanks for your answers and your informations Regards Jean Couturier