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Tachilek Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Tachilek, Myanmar
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New Year in Burma
This is a top pick! ... but they also generally weren't desperately poor - certainly not compared to some Australian aboriginal townships I have seen. I don't expect Tachilek is an example of other smaller remoter towns though. It is relatively safe from the fighting here and ...
The Infamous Golden Triangle, Myanmar
This is a top pick! ... been in a country ruled by a military dictatorship. That's a first. I've recently learned a little more about Myanmar's history, here's what I think I know now. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, as head of her party, was overwhelmingly ...
Entering the Burmese Border
... taking the photo copy across the border. Immediately after I cross the border, I noticed some significant differeces. First of all, Myanmar people drove on the right instead of left as in Thailand and second the roads were in much worse condition than in ...
Quick Border Run to Burma
We made it to Northern Thailand and decided the best and cheapest way to extend the visa was to take a taxi to the Thai-Burma border, about 4 hours. We made it just in time, thanks to the fastest taxi driver in Thailand. Crossed the border ...
Just A Peek
... while on the boat convinced me to take a slight detour to Mai Sai, Thailand's northernmost city and a gateway to Myanmar, also known as Burma. Tachilek lies just across the border and serves, like many border towns, as a place to buy cheap goods, ...
Burma Bound
... strong woman) has already lived on her own for many years while he was in "exile". He has only recently returned to Tachilek with a new identity card...where they have an Indian food cart across the border in Thailand. His wife says she understands ...
Popping over to liberate Aung San Suu Kyi
Got myself alot more excited than Ger about just having a haicut here for the novelty of being in Burma. This little expedition was not part of the plan at all but we were so close when in Chiang Rai we thought why not. It was bloody hot here ...
One day, some monkeys, 3 countries and a museum...
On our way to the Golden Triangle, the point where Thailand, Burma and Laos meet, we visited some cheeky monkeys who we saw steal a ladies shoe and climb to the top of a cliff, good luck getting that back. Burma was our second port of call and not what i ...
Welcome to Cell 004, Tachilek Prison
... thermometer in the First Aid kit.. we knew there was a reason for carrying that around. This put pay to anymore fantastic outings in Tachilek and we settled down out the front of the guesthouse to watch the locals going by. Beth was back in the room when ...
Border Adventures
... bus to Kyiang Tong instead. Now we had some time on our hands, so we went back into the center of Tachilek and started exploring the various markets and vendors centered around the border. The actual vendor stalls sell everything from clothes ...
My gibbon experience
"The Gibbon Experience" is a unique experience that is not written in any travelling guide-books. The experience is basically 3 days of sleeping in canopy huts (tree houses) and zipping through the jungle on highwires. This was definitely another ...
Tachilek, Myanmar
Tachilek, Myanmar. Visited a family's house in the town. Amazing how such beautiful young woman with perfect skin and beautiful clothes live in just a concrete and tin shed with no ...
"...and I mean dirt cheap"
The Border crossing was simple. A day pass for a few dollars gave us the freedom of Burma, well, within a few miles of the gate anyway! A passing thought for any smokers, fags are dirt cheap here, and I mean dirt cheap. On entering the country you are ...
grr... visas....
so having not got a 60 day visa before leaving the uk, we took a day trip up to the burmese border for me to nip over. bit of a hassle but an ok day. picked up in a mini bus at 7.30am, joined by a malaysian couple, french canadian couple and two ...
Mekong River
Got up the next day, & went & got another slow boat. Thankfully John was feeling better & we met a nice OZ couple Andy & Kelly. We sat around & compared nightmare stories from the night before. Mostly slept, read & played cards for the 8-9 hour journey. ...
Entering Myanmar (the Evil Empire)
Entering the Evil Empire....just so we can renew our tourist visa and stay another 30 days. Looking for the great opium fields of the Golden Triangle from years ago only to be dissappointed by all the street merchants selling the same crap. I ...
Chiang Rai -the golden triangle
... all at the same time. We also visited Laos, to check out the market there, and a few of us crossed the border into Burma (Myanmar) to extend our Thailand Visas. Burma was pretty rough actually, a lot more begging and full on touts, we were in the market 2 ...
Burma
... that some place like that actually exists is a bit unnerving and makes me grateful to be from a country where everyone needs to hide secrets from someone from the outside. Myanmar was an intriguingly suspicious place that was worth the 500 Baht visa ...
Slipped into Burma
After following the Thailand/Burma border for quite a few kms, we decided to leave our bikes in Mae Sai Thailand and cross by foot into Mynamar (Burma). Was an immediate change in peoples attitudes, and demeanor. Thailand is so relaxed and ...
Another visa run !!
... - I counted each and every one of them ! The temple itself is nothing special but there are great views over the border bridge, of Tachilek and Mae Sai and further afield to the mountains of Burma. I am a little warm and out of breath by the time I reach ...
Rebel, Rebel
... me smile.....their simple gesture of kindness made my day. My trepidation in crossing is due to the underlying political tension between Myanmar and Thailand. Mae Soi is the Thailand border town which has been in the past an opium trading ...
October 30, 2007
... will pay for the 7 days I'm late because of the accident, well that didn't happen, so 3500 baht later....... I arrive on the Myanmar side of the border prepared to witness and see fire fall from the heavens and have a revival here and now, but this time ...
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