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Good riddance 

Lucky you, I received my package via DHL at Wattai DHL Depot (Vientiane) and received a call to come clear customs.

Was asked to pay US$ 75 to a custom officer (no receipt) to release the package (from Italy).

Refused and said I wanted to pay the regular tax etc.

The next day a foreign friend went there to deal on my behalf as I live 700km away.

On a € 290 item plus € 120 freight they wanted over USD 200.

After my friend negotiated with the <deleted> he paid US$ 100 (no receipt) and I had to pay the <deleted> at DHL another US$ 15 for storage (3 days) with bill.

On top of this DHL did not want to deliver the package to the address on the Italian DHL printed address but told my friend to take it with him. 

And so this Thai soap begins.

And this will be halted during Buddha Days surely.

No cow can replace education.

13 hours ago, Damual Travesty said:

Well, this is going to really help kick off the rapid return of tourists to Thailand.

Sorry bro but with Warmbiers like that Thailand is better of without.

How about no-risk countries such as the neigbour Laos?

Thailand is protecting the potential visitors to the contry from this ideocracy by keeping the borders closed due to C-19.

Great opportunity though for all the folk from up north east to come see their daugters and mothers.

Great to read such reports. He is either not Thai or a Buddhist. 

Dear all good members and visitors.

Have lived in Thailand for a while, outside BKK b.t.w. and was more or less happy with finding aftermarket stuff.

Now that I live elsewhere and am more or less bound to BKK for bike parts (with mostly little time) I was wondering if it would be useful for all of us to have a "where to find" list in BKK here?

I am a "small" KTM Duke rider (200 & 390) and would be interested to find Engine-Ice coolant (USA Product that used to be dealt with by Best Superbike Co., Ltd. but no longer) and a place to find/order a SPAL (Italian manufacturer) cool fan. 

There will be loads of other stuff to search for so interested to see some info (preferably out of experience rather than from hear-say).

Cheer,

Hi everyone, does any of you know where one can find a fair stag of KTM original/aftermarket spares?

It seems there are loads of shops selling bikes but no one (where I have been so far) stockes spares.

Even things like oil, air, fuel filters.

I live in Luang Prabang Lao PDR and recently (Feb 27th) a dealer opened in Vientiane but no spares whatsoever in stock and quoted delivery times up to 2 months?

I'll be in Bangkok next Monday and on Phuket on Tuesday.

Anyone knows of anywhere in either place where I could purchase an air- and fuel filter for a Duke 200?

Dear TVmembers,

I have bought a secondhand bike in BKK and was wondering how to put this in my name.

I do not live in Thailand (anymore).

Any sugestions?

There is basically only 1 road in the Lao PDR that is reasonable surface wise, the 13. During the rainy season however this road between Houwe Xai and Vang Vieng (passing Luang Prabang) is one large landslide.

Crossing the borders (Friendship bridges) other then in Vientiane is a right out disaster.

Too many "little" people trying to make an extra bug (Thai and Lao side as I have no experience on the Viet side.

​The Lao PDR also came up with some scam when entering the country with a convoy of more then so many cars/motorbikes and the likes, you need a police escort (of course paid for acco, car/bike/food/etc).

The bus suggestion is no less then suicide with no maintenance on materials and very, very inexperienced drivers and drivers with experience do not care a iota.

Do not make the Lao PDR the last country you will ever travel in/to and fly.

'Returned with an axe'

Sounds like he's not running on all cylinders.

Were any of those Fords?

Why don't you just ask what they need?

Many foreign cars and motorbikes coming to Luang Prabang. Be aware that if you are planning to come with a group of cars there are new regulations demanding a Lao police escort. Beautiful country to drive through, when in Luang Prabang come and stay at www.villadeuxrivieres.com

Have a great journey,

Chris.

Will this go for Monks as well?

F.Y.I., Taksin was walking the evening market in Luang Prabang on the 19 of Jan. and was still there yesterday. Maybe a plan to reunite Isaan and Lao?

I think we all (who have been here more then 2 days) know the problem of speaking English/American/Australian in Thailand.

What I think would help is to make it fashionable to speak English (or any variety of it).

Notice how in KL (Malaysia) all "upper class" Malay's speak English in bars, terraces, over the phone and such, it has become natural to them.

Another thing that might help is Thai sports reporters actually starting to pronounce at least the names of the sports people correctly in stead of for example "Alonsoooooooo" if referring to the F1 driver.

This is a funny one I would like to share:

As a shop manager for a scuba diving company I hired a new shop staff member as we run out on "English" speaking staff.

She was (and most likely still is) a Uni graduated (Thai) English teacher.

To train them a bit (in manners accustomed to foreigners) I started of with "when a potential diver walks through our shop door you will address them with {good morning/afternoon would you like to dive today?}

Not long after I had to cancel this sentence after hearing my Thai staff say "good m/a would you like to die today"

What saddens me is that these are the new generation who in due time will be running the monkey show. Good luck.

The only thing she did wrong compared to all her girlfriends is she got the money from people inside Thailand (o:

Just read somewhere that the TAT received a budget of many milj. THB to upgrade/update about 80 tourist related web sites. Might be an idea to annonce that jet-skies are ilegal in Thailand and urge ALL tourists NOT to rent one.