Chang Khong
Travel Blogs from Chang Khong, Thailand
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Fix Up Look Sharp.
... chiller trucks in Thailand and Chiang Mai is the furthest point from the sea anywhere in the country. On the 2nd we headed up to Chang Khong to cross the border into Laos, we'd paid for transport up there and the slow boat down the river for two days ...
Chang Kong
... and Emma. P.S Dan is actually a Blackburn fan - the one and probably only i will see in asia! Once we arrived in chang Kong after an unexpected visit to a peanut selling shop (very surreal!) we had a look around and bought the usual........... 120 ...
Heading towards Laos
CLICK ON PHOTOS AT TOP TO ENLARGE! Catch a little minibus from Chang Mai to Chang Kong with the Mae Kong river as the border. Get a room with the Aussie guy from the bus for 50bht(65p) per night each which is a bargain. Sort out visas and boat ...
To Chang khong
... was also another couple traveling together Matt and Sharon from the UK. The couple were just close friends traveling through Thailand. We arrived in Chang Khong after a full days worth of mini-bus and booked into the PJ Guest house on the boarder. The ...
7 Hour Bus Ride - No Toilet
... as we were the only ones on there and got a few funny looks from the locals. 7 hours later plus one toilet break we arrived in Chang Khong, which is rather unimpressive its very small with not a great deal going on. We stuck to the bible and went with the ...
Dodgy wiring on the Mekong
... the visa would cost $35 +$1 overtime as it was a weekend and we would have to go back in the morning to be stamped out of Thailand, catch the boat across the Mekong then get the visa at the other side. We were told if we paid in dollars it would be ...
North to the Golden Triangle
... flight to Chang Mai in the north of the country, from where our waiting minibus drove us to the Golden Triangle at Chang Khong – a point high above the Mekong River which separated Thailand from Laos, and a smaller tributary marked the boundary with ...
Ups and downs
... people wait, but wed missed out on that too and they didnt apologise to anyone about it. We were not amused! We got to chang khong at about 7.15. I knew by this point that there were no triple rooms available and that i was going to have to share with ...
Mekong River Slow Boat
From my journal: The Mekong river trip from Chang Kong in thailand then to Pak Beng and into Luang Prabang was well...something to remember as a footnote to what I put up with on this trip. It sucked!! Pak Beng was a swindlers haven and home and hole ...
border crossing Thailand Laos
Crossing the border means to go out to the other side of the Mekong. First you have to stamp your passport at the Thai immigration office. Then you take a small barge that will take you to Laos where you get your passport stamped again but this time by ...
Leaving Thailand
Time to hit Laos, spent one night here, it was a tiny little village that consisted of one street mainly set up for travellers to pass through. Me and James fall asleep as soon as we arrived and woke at 10pm to a ghost town! Both staving had to ration ...
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