Buriram To Chiang Mai

[torrenova]

As I'm not an expert on buses and as there are no easy flight options I can see (other than on PB Air to Bangkok then someone else to Chiang Mai) I need some help. I see airports at Surin and Korat but no flights from them which I can find information on.

If anyone knows even just a reasonable public transport ground route I'd be obliged. Also, how far is it ?

[Thanyaburi Mac]

As I'm not an expert on buses and as there are no easy flight options I can see (other than on PB Air to Bangkok then someone else to Chiang Mai) I need some help. I see airports at Surin and Korat but no flights from them which I can find information on.

If anyone knows even just a reasonable public transport ground route I'd be obliged. Also, how far is it ?

Might be 10-12 hours, if you make it.

http://www.koratmagazine.in.th/trans/ekrt_bus.htm

Below  a memo I wrote to my staff some years ago when we had a lot of people travelling back and forth to the Indochinese refugee camps here.

Mac

EMBASSY OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bangkok, Thailand

6 June 1980

TO: REF/KEG Staff

FROM: MacAlan Thompson

SUBJ: Tour Bus Riding

If you do find the need to ride the tour buses, I strongly recommend the following selection of seating:

Daytime: two-thirds of the way back on the left hand side of the bus;

Nighttime: two-thirds of the way back on the right hand side of the bus;

NEVER sit in the front or the rear.

The rationale, such as it is, is that in the daytime buses will be passing other vehicles at random. In the event that the bus is unable to pull ahead in time to get completely back into the left-hand lane of traffic, the oncoming vehicle, inevitably a 10-wheel truck, will either hit head-on with the bus, or sideswipe the right side of the bus, doing grievous bodily harm to the passengers sitting on the right side.

For the night buses, things change; there are relatively few collisions with oncoming traffic. What can ruin your whole evening on the night bus is a 10-wheeler or logging truck broken down and parked half on the pavement on the left-hand side of the road. The standard signal used for warning other drivers of the hazard of a standing obstacle ahead is a small clump of brush placed up to 50 feet behind the stationary vehicle; no warning lights. So, what happens is that the driver of your bus sees theclump of brush too late and either runs directly into the rear of the obstacle, or he swerves to the right, just missing the corner of the obstacle with the front of the bus, but wiping out the entire left side, and those passengers sitting there.

Reasons for not sitting in the front are obvious; the rear less so. Be sure, however, if another vehicle hits the rear of your bus, there will be quite a mess, literally.

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[TBWG]

As I'm not an expert on buses and as there are no easy flight options I can see (other than on PB Air to Bangkok then someone else to Chiang Mai) I need some help. I see airports at Surin and Korat but no flights from them which I can find information on.

If anyone knows even just a reasonable public transport ground route I'd be obliged. Also, how far is it ?

Hi

What is wrong with the flight option. PB air flights are not that regular but on carriage to Chiang Mai is hourly so by far the most comfortable quickest option.

TBWG

[torrenova]

Hi

What is wrong with the flight option. PB air flights are not that regular but on carriage to Chiang Mai is hourly so by far the most comfortable quickest option.

TBWG

Looking like that is the only sensible option at this time. The reason I hesitated was the existence of airports at Surin and Korat which might have served me better (found little of use on the net googling).

Haven't done the logistics with a map but if there was some reasonable and quick bus service like Nachonchai Air (sp ?) do with the 32 seat VIP recliners then I could potentially be persuaded.

To me it is strange that their is an air service to Buriram but not to Surin or Korat.

Anyone else got any thoughts ?