Three Pagodas Pass

[jeebusjones]

I've been looking for alternatives to Cambodia for getting a new 30 day visa exemption stamp. I just noticed a place called "Three Pagodas Pass" on the Burmese border, northwest of Kanchanaburi.

From what I can gather, it's a pretty remote location and a very interesting drive from Kanchanaburi. Old ThaiVisa posts from 2004 say you can't get a Thai entry/exit stamp there. Is this still the case?

Does anyone know about this place? Anyone been there?

[Boxer]

I've been looking for alternatives to Cambodia for getting a new 30 day visa exemption stamp. I just noticed a place called "Three Pagodas Pass" on the Burmese border, northwest of Kanchanaburi.

From what I can gather, it's a pretty remote location and a very interesting drive from Kanchanaburi. Old ThaiVisa posts from 2004 say you can't get a Thai entry/exit stamp there. Is this still the case?

Does anyone know about this place? Anyone been there?

I went up there in 2006 just to say I had been there. As you say it is a LONG drive of little interest really once you pass the Death Railway places. Once there the post is a drive thro with office no facilities that I could see for Visa work and the last I read was that the crossing had been closed to traffic for Political reasons??? But cannot confirm that now.

[jdinasia]

Sorry ... 3 Pagodas Pass is out for a visa run. They don't do it there

[Crushdepth]

But its a nice place for a 'laid back' holiday. Take a wander over the bridge and you'll find a bamboo village with an interesting mix of people, food and fringy trade stuff.

[apetley]

I can confirm what JD has posted.

Was at Three Pagodas a couple of months ago shopping at the furniture markets and got chatting with one of the border officers there.

Mentioned to him that it would be very convenient to be able to do a border run there. He did say that maybe in the future! There are plans to upgrade the whole highway between Kanchanaburi and Burma but by his own admission this will take years but come that time immigration facilities should be upgraded as a result.

Oh well, it's a nice day out to Mae Sot every few months until then.

Who knows maybe we will all get 10 year visas by then anyway, or am I just wishful thinking?