Kawthoung port

... week Visa for US$10, even though we mentioned that we would be leaving that same day both times. Soon after getting through Myanmar immigration, we were surrounded by young boys that wanted to be our tour guides for our stay.  We tagged around with ...

... by foot and trishaw in half a day. (Fodor's) We chose the Georgetown by Trishaw tour. The Sweetenham pier is not a deep-water port so the SS Voyager anchored in the bay and we were transported to shore by ship's tenders. Upon arrival a queue of ...

... of Phuket. On arrival at the Thai-side border town we got stamped out of the country and jumped on a boat to Kawthoung, Myanmar. A busy port town mostly full of people extending their visas. On arrival we got stamped in and out of the country in one go, ...

We had to go to Burma (now called Myanmar) so we could renew our Thai 30 day visas. You have to leave Thailand, get a departure stamp go to another country and come back. Bit of a waste of time but we get a Burmese stamp in our passports, yey. We had to ...

... it was my sisters). I got up, went along the beach asking all people that i came across, went to the port as I didn`t want anyone getting on the ferries with my guitar(sisters).....and there they were, my friends from Beijing trying ...

... speed catamaran to Chumpon, the Thai costal town. From Chumpon it was a air conditioned mini bus all the way to the port of Ragon, which faces Burma. Got stamped out of Thailand by my personal immigration officer. Then onto a air conditioned boat over to ...

... ;wooden stilted structure on the riverbanks, the purpose of which we would find out soon... Arriving at the docks of Kawthoung we were greeted by half a dozen vhery charming, very helpful Burmese boys who helped us out of our boat and direted us ...

... a huge national disaster that's taken the lives of tens of thousands of Burmese. We really didn't want to visit Myanmar and contribute any money that would support its government, but we didn't really have any choice.  Thai immigration allows us ...