DangerousDavies Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 Maybe he needed a bit of time to think about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcgriffith Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Ran over on Sunday, Election Day. Very light foot traffic; the touts were in a frenzy when we tried to descend the stairs down to the market. Coming back I literally had to shoulder (with extreme prejudice) one offender. Border wide open, no problems for transit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sceadugenga Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Funny how the Viagra salesmen seem to target certain people. They seldom bother me, must know they are wasting their time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Funny how the Viagra salesmen seem to target certain people. They seldom bother me, must know they are wasting their time... Don't run them down they have a hard job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maidu Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 A friend tells me the imm office on the Tachilek side of the bridge, now won't take US dollars. Insists of Bt.500 only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sceadugenga Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Watch them change their mind when the dollar goes back up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kandahar Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 I have heard this report on and off for the last few months. I have a friend here who goes every two weeks and he has yet to have his ten dollar bill declined. He was there last week and had no trouble with the ten dollar bill being accepted. Maybe he will next week. I will ask when he returns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fm2002 Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 I used (2) 5 dollar bills the last time I went and no problem I have heard this report on and off for the last few months. I have a friend here who goes every two weeks and he has yet to have his ten dollar bill declined. He was there last week and had no trouble with the ten dollar bill being accepted. Maybe he will next week. I will ask when he returns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groggy Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Hello, Does anyone have an updated status of this border crossing? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dindong Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Went last week and everything was as usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sceadugenga Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Quick trip over the border today, no problems at any stage. The copy iPad2s looked interesting at 2400B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dindong Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Quick trip over the border today, no problems at any stage. The copy iPad2s looked interesting at 2400B. Did you give dollars or baht to the Burmese side? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sceadugenga Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Baht, don't carry third world currencies sorry... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woralak Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 Baht, don't carry third world currencies sorry... :lol: :cheesy: :hit-the-fan: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 Funny how the Viagra salesmen seem to target certain people. They seldom bother me, must know they are wasting their time... Don't run them down they have a hard job. They sell against stiff competition ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmjantje Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Last thursday I went to renew my visa. The officer filled in some paper (in Thai), just had to sign it. I don't know what kind of paper and what it is for. Also a second form how you travelled into Thailand reason to extend etc. Last but not least they took a webcam picture of me. Any experience? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sceadugenga Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 What type of visa? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmjantje Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 What type of visa? I used to have an O-A but this time I showed my marriage papers, maybe that is because why?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
my friend I Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Quick trip over the border today, no problems at any stage. The copy iPad2s looked interesting at 2400B. Did you give dollars or baht to the Burmese side? They refused my $US 10. Only wanted Bt500. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Barlow Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 [ They refused my $US 10. Only wanted Bt500. your $10 bill must not have been pretty enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sceadugenga Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 It's the picture of Alexander Hamilton, Joel... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Barlow Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Now Scea, you may find ol' Alex pretty, but I definately do NOT! as for the Burmese (Myanmarese? nevermind, the ka-ratchagan are almost all Burmese), they only care that the currency may have become illegitamate by being folded or something. certainly not wise to blow one's nose with it first, before presenting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sceadugenga Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 There you go, I had visions of the taking my 500B, buying a USD $10 for the government with it and pocketing the 200B change. What a nasty suspicious mind I must have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Barlow Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Once upon a time, thinking I'd visit Shan State's capital Keng Tung, I bought some US currency at the BKK Bank near the bridge. They stappled the bills together. I blissfully walked over the bridge onto the beetle-spit in front of the passport-control office, and asked about permission to do that. But as my money had tiny holes in it, it wasn't considered any good. But nevermind, they said - I could still buy FEC with Thai baht, and then change it back into Thai baht, the currency in use there. For B4000, I could get B3000! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
my friend I Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 [ They refused my $US 10. Only wanted Bt500. your $10 bill must not have been pretty enough. It was very pretty - no holes, not folded, new. Tachileik is really looking like a dump in wet season. The highlight was 3 Thai monks bargaining with a young Burmese woman for a stack of porn dvds. The infamous monk from Phrae wasn't amongst them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sceadugenga Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Tachilek porn reputedly bears little resemblance to what is on the cover. I've seen a stack of it at Thai immigration as well... I wonder how they know who has it and where it ends up after they confiscate it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
my friend I Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 The monks were testing every dvd on a tv in the shop. Must have been tipped off . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapoon Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Funny how the Viagra salesmen seem to target certain people. They seldom bother me, must know they are wasting their time... Don't run them down they have a hard job. They sell against stiff competition ! They thought I was a soft touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMwanderer Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 where do you get these crisp 10USD bills? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sceadugenga Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 They used to be a lady with a jewellery stall out the front of the bank near border immigration who would sell them. I haven't seen her for a while but then I haven't really looked either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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